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Jewish cemetery in Haisyn, Ukraine

Haisyn is a city in the Vinnytsia region of Ukraine, where Jews have lived since the 18th century. At the end of the 19th century, they accounted for more than 50% of the population. By the end of the 1939s, their share in the population had dropped to 30%.

According to local historians, there were several Jewish cemeteries in the city. The first, the so-called cemetery near Kulinarka, was closed at the beginning of the 20th century. In the 1920s, the second Jewish cemetery disappeared, in the place of which a city street named after Ivan Franko appeared.

Nowadays there is one Jewish cemetery in the city, the condition of which is taken care of by the Haisyn Jewish community. It is cataloged. There are more than 760 burials in the electronic catalog. 75 of these are completely lacking chronological and anthroponymical data. On nine, the information is partially preserved.

The earliest graves in the cemetery date back to the 1930s. These are the burials of Gefter Efim Samuilovich (1921-1933) and Kapitova Anyuta Borisovna (1927-1934). The later ones belong to the XXI century. For example, the grave of Alexander Koshman Isakovich (1940-2017). The inscription was made in Ukrainian.

Approximately 2.4% of burials contain inscriptions in Russian and Hebrew. There is a burial with the inscription in Ukrainian: "Glazer Dora Yosipivna (1936-2015)". There is a grave on the slab of which inscriptions in Ukrainian and Russian are combined. Anthroponymical data: Ladizhenskiy Yudka Moyseevich (1928-1985) "in Ukrainian, and the epitaph" From ever grieving children"- in Russian.

The Haisyn cemetery is interesting for the variety of gravestones. There are burial monuments in the form of chopped-off tree trunks. One without anthroponymical and chronological data, the other belongs to Zisman Yakov Grigorievich (1909-1965). There are monuments in the form of a stone on which inscriptions in Hebrew and Russian are carved. For example, the burial place of Sonya Shlemovna (1891-1960). Several monuments are made in the form of a sarcophagus. For example, the graves of Gerenburg Rachel Davidovna (1900-1947), Karitova Shloyme Meera (1870-1956) and Kapitova Khona Borisovna (1873-1946). The grave of Dytyak Aleksey Grigorievich (1876-1962) was made of red brick with a steel plate with inscriptions embedded in it.

On a number of gravestones, there are references to relatives who died during the Second World War. For example, on the grave of Moshkovich Mania Abramovna (1914-1991) under the epitaph it is written: “In memory of father Zherebker Z.Sh. Died 30.03.1941 ". On the slab of Krasner Feiga Iosifovna (1899-1974) under the epitaph it is written: “Krasner N.P. Born in 1921. In memory of the deceased son in the 1941 Patriotic War”.