Onitskani Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Moldova
Region
No administrative division by regions
District
Criuleni
Settlement
Onitcani
Site address
Entering the town from the Kriuleni side, proceed 500 metres from the Rompetrol gas station, turn right and continue for 60 metres. The demolished cemetery is located in the fenced garden on the left side of the road.
GPS coordinates
47.1471, 29.07658
Perimeter length
95 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
yes
Type and height of existing fence
No fence
Preservation condition
Demolished Jewish cemetery that has not been built over
General site condition
There is a privately owned and fenced vegetable garden on the site of the former cemetery. According to locals, the cemetery territory was wider than the vegetable garden plot, and included what today is a wasteland between the garden and the road.
Number of existing gravestones
4. There are four gravestones laid out on the outer side of the cemetery fence which faces the road. According to the vegetable garden owner, the tombstones were found in the soil of the vegetable garden, and there are more tombstones inside the garden itself.
Date of oldest tombstone
1733
Date of newest tombstone
1740
Urgency of erecting a fence
Low
Land ownership
Private
Preserved construction on site
Drone surveys
No
Historical overview
