Obj. ID: 14971
Jewish Funerary Art Jewish cemetery in Hannopil, Ukraine
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. It appears on a German map of 1918 (copy of the Russian map of the 1880s), but the oldest preserved gravestone relates to the first half of the 19th century. Later, it was marked on Russian topographic maps of 1909 and 1939. The Jewish cemetery was destroyed during WWII. The graves of Dov Ber ben Avraham of Mezeritch and Meshulam-Zusi Zvi-Menachem-Mendl were reconstructed in 1988.
There is a low metal mesh fence from the side of the fields, and a concrete fence of 1.5 metres height from the side of the street.
The cemetery is a pilgrimage site. There is a visitor centre adjacent to the cemetery. There are 30 gravestones. Some gravestones are broken.
Note by Sergey Kravtsov, Tuesday, May 03, 2011, Hannopil
There is an old local man, born in 1934, who lives next to the cemetery. He told us the story of the Holocaust in Hannopil. As a young boy, he was watching the execution of the local Jews, who were shot dead, and the German officer started shooting at him and another Ukrainian boy, who were peeping from the “low bushes with white flowers.” The ditch with the killed Jews, about 10 m long, was not covered with ground, and they moved with their hands.
The cemetery is cared of by r. Gabai. He has commissioned the ohel instead the old one. He has commissioned also the new hotel and a mikveh nearby. These are mostly built, but not finished. The narrator has not seen r. Gabai for many years, and asked to pass him greetings and ask Gabai to finish the construction. It seems, that he, or his children, are willing to get the hotel in their property.
There was a wooden synagogue in Hannopil, but it does not exist any longer.
There is a monument to the Holocaust victims in Hannopil, on the place of executions.
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| At the end of Radyanska street, along the Zharykha river