Obj. ID: 48011
  Funerary Art  Site of the Jewish cemetery in Mala Bahachivka, Ukraine

According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the Jewish cemetery of Mala Bahachivka appears on a Russian topographic map from the 1860s, which means that the cemetery presumably was established soon after the colony’s foundation. It also appears on a map from 1941. Most likely, the cemetery was demolished during the post-war Soviet period. According to local residents, the cemetery was bulldozed, and tombstones were taken away or buried in the forest.

There are many broken stones on the territory. However, according to local residents, these are not gravestones, but stones used for construction — a military cable was being pulled through the territory of the cemetery. However, some presume that the gravestones were taken somewhere, and some are convinced that they were buried in the forest, in which there is a deep pit, in which the gravestones may have been buried. Others say that several gravestones remain in the hardly overgrown part of the cemetery, but the ESJF team could not find them.

The cemetery is bordered from the northeastern side by agricultural plantations, from the other sides by forests. Part of the cemetery is today a heavily overgrown glade, another part is a wooded area, which presumably will eventually naturally merge into the forest belt that surrounds the cemetery.

To reach the cemetery, exit Bahachivka, proceed in the direction of Mala Bahachivka for 2.5 kilometres. Turn right, drive about 300 metres, and turn right to the south-east. After 200 metres, the cemetery will be on the right.