Obj. ID: 14923
Jewish Funerary Art New Jewish Cemetery in Rohatyn, Ukraine
The cemetery is surrounded by a metal fence on the 1.5-meter-high concrete basement.
There are about 20 gravestones on the site.
Date of the oldest tombstone: 1868
Date of the latest tombstone: 1938
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The second or "new" Jewish cemetery was established in the late 19th century (according to ESJF) of in the first decades of the 20th century (according to Jewish Stones).
"The cemetery does not appear on any known prewar city maps but it is visible in a 1944 aerial photo of Rohatyn taken by the German Luftwaffe.
During the German occupation of WWII, and possibly also during the postwar Soviet era, nearly all of the headstones wereremoved and used as construction materials for roads, new building foundations, and other masonry and fill purposes.
In the 1990s survivors and descendants of Rohatyn Jewish families reestablished the two cemeteries as memorial spaces, fencing the boundaries and erecting memorial stelæ to commemorate the Jewish community and its destruction. Today the cemeteries are owned by the Rohatyn civil community, and both the "old" cemetery and the "new" cemetery are regularly maintained by Rohatyn Jewish Heritage in cooperation with the Rohatyn City Council and funded by donations from Rohatyn descendants and other interested people." [Jewish Stones UA].