This 17th-century Jewish cemetery is located in Murafa, near the local secondary school. More than 1,000 marble and granite gravestones can be found at the burial ground, which is also the site of a mass grave of 75 Jews killed by the gangs of Cossack leader Petliura
Recent cemetery and mass grave surveys carried out by the Lo Tishkach Foundation in Ukraine co-operation with local partner the Centre for Jewish Education in Ukraine (CJEU) have found many sites urgently in need of care.
Hundreds of Holocaust-era mass grave sites and cemeteries will be surveyed across Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia by local youth groups as part of the second year of a vast Lo Tishkach educational and Holocaust-memory project beginning in October.
Carried out as part of the first year of a three-year FSU educational project to catalogue all of the Jewish cemeteries and mass graves in Ukraine and the Baltic states, surveys of 216 Jewish burial grounds have now been performed in eight of the Ukraine’s 25 regions.
Thanks to research conducted by Lo Tishkach working with the Warsaw Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH) under the guidance of leading Polish-Jewish heritage expert Jan Jagielski, information on another 500 sites – including some 200 Holocaust mass graves – has been added to the Lo Tishkach online database.
