Despite all the hardships of life, which the Jews probably had more than any other people, they managed to preserve their identity, including religion, way of life, and language. Having been deprived of their state for twenty centuries (!), Jews were forced to settle almost all over the world, creating Jewish communities. People worked in them, rested, got married and, of course, died. The creation of a cemetery was one of the first priorities for the new Jewish community.
The Jewish community in the city of Zhmerynka, which is located 200 km from Kyiv, in the Vinnytsia region on the Kyiv-Odessa railway, was no exception. And in the second half of the 19th century, when Zhmerynka was founded, it was part of the Vinnytsia district of the Podolsk province. At the time the settlement was founded, Jews made up almost 40% of the population.  Therefore, the cemetery appeared even earlier than the synagogue, which began operating only in the 70s of the 19th century.
Pogroms did not pass Zhmerynka either.  Before 1917 there were three of them - in 1881, 1884 and 1905. Then there were pogroms in 1918 and 1919. All of them were not without victims, who were buried in the Jewish cemetery.
Then there was the Holocaust, during which the Jewish community in Zhmerynka noticeably thinned out, and the cemetery, on the contrary, grew in size. But not all Jews were buried there. Most of them remained lying in execution ditches or settled as ashes in the crematoria of concentration camps - Dachau, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and others.
Now we can talk about two Jewish cemeteries - old and new. However, they are located nearby, adjacent to each other, as if passing on a not joyful baton.  
In the old cemetery there are rickety, moss-covered tombstones with inscriptions in Hebrew. There is a palisade of tree trunks around, fallen leaves that are never removed. Desolation.
If you follow the sound of cars rushing along Odesskaya Street, you will come to a new cemetery.  There will already be tombstones traditional for Ukraine with inscriptions in Russian, faces of the deceased and iron fences around the graves.  And if it were not for the surnames, first names and patronymics of the deceased - Weinstein, Koberman, Aron Matveevich, Turner, Shlipper, then one might think that this is an ordinary Ukrainian cemetery. On some monuments, the deceased are depicted wearing Soviet orders.
Despite the fact that the Jewish diaspora in Zhmerynka decreased significantly in the 90s and 2000s, many Jews left for Israel, there is no such desolation as in the old Jewish cemetery. There is no garbage, rickety or fallen monuments. The area is clearly being looked after. And this Jewish cemetery is functioning. This means that Jews still live in the city and there is hope for the revival of the Jewish community.
If you want to visit a Jewish cemetery, it is very easy to find. Drive along Kievskaya Street - the central street in the city, and from the railway station it turns into Odesskaya Street, passing through the railway station. On the outskirts of the city, this street will turn left, and you continue moving straight, along Odesskaya Street. On the outskirts of the city, to the left of the road you will see a cemetery. The first will be the new Jewish cemetery, then the Ukrainian one. Go deeper into the new Jewish cemetery and you will come out to the old Jewish cemetery.