Lo Tishkach has published its latest report into the state of the Jewish cemeteries and Holocaust-era mass graves in the northern Ukrainian region of Chernihiv. The report outlines the current situation and location of 19 Jewish cemeteries and eleven mass grave sites. The report found one third of cemeteries to be properly demarcated and maintained, another third to be partially demarcated and protected, with a final third lacking any appropriate form of identification and demarcation. Regarding mass grave sites, only one of them lacks identification, but six sites require memorial markers that make mention of the Jewish victims buried there. The remaining four sites are appropriately marked.
The report is the fifth to be published of Ukraine’s oblasts by Lo Tishkach and follows extensive surveys, local interviews and additional research undertaken by local students over the spring and summer of 2010. A report covering Latvia’s Zemgale region was also published earlier this year.
An additional report into the Zakarpattia region of Ukraine will be published in the coming months alongside similar reports on Jewish burial grounds in Latvia and Lithuania. In total, more than 800 sites were surveyed this year.
Please contact us if you would like to obtain a copy of the report.
