Obj. ID: 7611
Jewish Funerary Art Jewish cemetery in Solotvyn (Sołotwina), Ukraine
The cemetery in Solotvyn was documented by the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1999 and by the Project Jewish history in Galicia and Bukovina in 2009.
See also the website of the Project Jewish history in Galicia and Bukovina (http://jgaliciabukovina.net/119597/cemetery/solotvin-cemetery)
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown, but according to the dates on the preserved gravestones it can be assumed that the cemetery emerged in the mid-17th century. The cemetery was operational until WWII, the latest preserved gravestone relates to the 1940s.
There are the remnants of a low metal fence on the new part of the cemetery. There are about 2000 gravestones.
Date of the oldest tombstone: 1665
Date of the latest tombstone: 1940
