Obj. ID: 47128
Jewish Funerary Art Jewish section in the municipal cemetery in Korosten, Ukraine
© ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, Photographer: ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, 2020
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the Jewish section of the municipal cemetery was established no later than the first half of the 20th century, as the earliest tombstone dates to 1919. There is inscription on the earliest tombstone that the buried Jews were murdered by Petlyura troops. According to the Commission on the Preservation of Jewish Heritage, there is a tombstone transferred from the Old Jewish cemetery dated 1914. The cemetery is marked on the Russian map of 1931 and on the German map of 1922. The part (Sector 3) where the older tombstones are, is overgrown. There is a memorial honoring victims of the Shoah. The entrance is through the Orthodox cemetery. There are about 3,000 gravestones.
Date of oldest tombstone: 1919
Date of newest tombstone: 2019
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Ukraine | Zhytomyrska obl. | Korosten (Коростень)
| 166, Ivana Kotlyarevskoho street (entrance through the Orthodox cemetery)
| 166, Ivana Kotlyarevskoho street (entrance through the Orthodox cemetery)
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