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ODESSA I: US Commission No. UA15010101
The Jewish cemetery was established in 1792 with last known Jewish burial in 1830s. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked Hasidic cemetery. The urban flat land, part of a municipal cemetery, has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds the cemetery. No stones are visible. Location of any removed stones is unknown. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. Municipality owns property used for ""other."" Properties adjacent are commercial-industrial and residential. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939. The cemetery was not vandalized in the last ten years. There is no maintenance now. Within the limits of the cemetery is a pre-burial house. Very serious threat: vandalism and proposed nearby development.
Oks Vladimir Moiseevich of 270065,Odessa, Varnenskaya St. 17D, Apt. 52 [Phone: (0482)665950] visited site on 7/10/94. Interviewed were local residents. Odesskaya Oblast/Oks completed survey on 07/10/1994. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.
info obtained at http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/ukraine/odessa.html
Translation of a Book with Collection of inscriptions in the jewish cemetery of Odessa. Published in 1889 by elders of Odessa Jewish funeral brotherhood. (in Hebrew)
The books is published at http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/odessa/RES_TOMB1889.asp
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