Rochmaniv Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Ukraine
Region
Ternopyl
District
Shums'k
Settlement
Rochmaniv
Site address
The cemetery is located adjacent to 26, Ivana Franka Street.
GPS coordinates
50.13003, 26.08799
Perimeter length
228 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
No fence
Preservation condition
Unfenced Jewish cemetery
General site condition
The cemetery is severely overgrown. It requires clearing and fencing. The cemetery site is partly overbuilt. There are private houses on its northern part. The northern and western parts are used for private gardening.
Number of existing gravestones
20
Date of oldest tombstone
Presumably,18th century,
Date of newest tombstone
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Property of local community
Preserved construction on site
Drone surveys
No
Historical overview
The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown, It appears on Russian topographic maps of the 1880s. As the Jewish community had an own rabbi in mid-18th, it can be presumed that the cemetery emerged at the same period. For dating the preserved tombstones clearing of the cemetery is reqiured.
Rochmaniv Jews are known from the 18th century. Rabbi Wolf served here in the mid-18th century. In 1897, 93 Jews lived in Rochmaniv (16% of the total population). In the early 20th century, a synagogue and a Jewish cemetery existed. The Jewish population declined to 62 in 1921, comparing to 465 in 1911. During the occupation by the Wehrmacht troops, the Jews of Rochmaniv were deported to the Shumsk ghetto.
