Obj. ID: 48180
Funerary Art Jewish cemetery in Chuhuiv, Ukraine
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. Given that the oldest preserved tombstone dates to the late 19th century, it can be gathered the cemetery was founded before/in that era. According to local historian Meir Landau, the tombstones belonged to cantonists. He also stated that certain Kharkiv citizens seized and privatized the land on which there are still tombstones (inside the fence). There is no fence. There are fragments of fences belonging to surrounding private territories. Garbage from the Christian part of the cemetery is being dumped on the Jewish one. There are 10 gravestones and 4 fragments (one of them is pre-revolutionary, the inscription is illegible).
