Ternopil Oblast: Identified Jewish Cemeteries – A Guide to Jewish Cemetery Preservation in Western Ukraine

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Photographer and researcher Christian Herrmann working in the Jewish cemetery in Tovste (Zalischyky raion). Photo © RJH.

Introduction

This page presents a sortable table which lists all known Jewish burial sites in the Ternopil oblast of western Ukraine with GPS coordinates and links to information sources, some of which provide descriptions, photographs, histories, and/or other data. At the bottom of this page, we also include an interactive map showing the known burial sites in this and other oblasts of western Ukraine. Although we have attempted to include every Jewish cemetery and mass grave in the oblast, it is likely that some omissions or other errors exist in the table; we welcome input to correct and complete the listing.

This page is one of a series covering several different oblasts of western Ukraine with a common purpose and strategy.

Read the overview to this study.

Historical Background

A tourism map, including Jewish sites, of the Ternopil oblast. From Pinterest.

In modern Ukraine, the Ternopil oblast lies in southwestern Ukraine, sharing borders with three of the oblasts of our original study (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivs, and Chernivtsi) and a long eastern border across the Zbruch River with the Khmelnytskyi oblast (part of the Ukrainian SSR since 1920 and before that, the Russian Empire). It is one of the smallest oblasts of Ukraine by area and by population; it is divided into 17 raions (districts) and 1 city of district significance (the city of Ternopil). As a borderland between empires known as “Ternopilshchyna” and part of eastern Halychyna, the land was often contested. Most of the region was part of the Austro-Hungarian Kingdom of Galicia from the late 18th century to WWI (a northern portion of the oblast was part of neighboring Volhynia). During WWI, the Ternopil region was the field of an extended armed stalemate on the Eastern Front between the Austrian/German Central Powers and the Russian Empire. In WWII it was the eastern part of Distrikt Galizien under German occupation, facing Soviet Ukraine. After WWII the region was absorbed into Soviet Ukraine, but since 1991 it has been part of independent Ukraine.

Demographically, until the post-WWII period the region had always been diverse. In the 1921 Polish census, of the roughly 1.43 million residents of the voivodeship, about 715 thousand identified themselves as ethnically Ukrainian (rusińską in the census) and almost 850 thousand as Greek Catholic; just over 640 thousand self-identified as Polish, and about 450 thousand as Roman Catholic; 69 thousand self-identified ethnically as Jewish, and almost 129 thousand as religiously Jewish; the remainder of the residents called themselves religiously Evangelical Christian or other (less than 4 thousand), and with many different ethnic groups but totaling fewer than 500 people. Thus, many religious Jews considered themselves Polish. Overall, Jews as a religious group before WWII made up just over 9% of the area’s population, which was also typical for eastern Galicia in earlier years.

Jewish Burial Grounds: Cemeteries and Wartime Mass Graves

In the table below, identified Jewish cemeteries and mass graves are listed by name, raion (district), and type of site. All place names are listed by the current convention of English transliteration of official Ukrainian names. Where possible for each burial site, GPS coordinates (technically, coordinates which conform to the standard known as the World Geodetic System) are listed and linked to a digital map. If the listed GPS coordinates include an asterisk (*) and no map link, this means that the coordinates are only approximate, and that we and our sources did not have confirmed and precise information to confidently locate the site; although the general location is known, additional verification is needed. Then, where available, links to web data from several sources are tabulated; each of the sources provides different but overlapping data types, both descriptive and numerical. Integrating and reconciling data from different sources is often difficult due to varying standards in place names and descriptions, and we recognize that some locations may not have been identified here from our sources and our own research; we welcome input and comments on omissions and errors.

The major sources are named briefly here; these and other sources are described more fully on the overview page.

ESJF = ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative
IAJGS = IAJGS International Jewish Cemetery Project
YIU = Yahad – In Unum
LT = Lo Tishkach European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative

The table below is interactive. The number of visible rows on the page can be selected from 10, 25, 50, or 100, in a selector at the upper left. The table can be searched for specific town or raion names, in a box at the upper right. Place names can be sorted A-Z or Z-A, for example to list burial sites by town name or raion.

Town/Village	Raion/City	Burial Site	GPS	ESJF	IAJGS	YIU	LT	Other
Barysh	Buchach	Cemetery	49.03566 25.26660	ESJF				✓
Berezhany	Berezhany	Cemetery	49.44287 24.92989	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ GG CJA VW
Berezhany	Berezhany	Mass Grave - Cemetery	49.443 24.929*		IAJGS	YIU	LT	✓
Berezhany	Berezhany	Mass Grave - Center West	49.443 24.930*			YIU	LT
Berezhany	Berezhany	Mass Grave - Southwest	49.424 24.892*			YIU
Bilobozhnytsia	Chortkiv	Mass Grave					LT
Bilozirka	Lanivtsi	Cemetery	49.77022 26.22511	ESJF				✓
Bohdanivka	Pidvolochysk	Mass Grave	49.558 26.013*			YIU
Borshchiv	Borshchiv	Cemetery - New	48.80572 26.02306	ESJF			LT	✓
Borshchiv	Borshchiv	Cemetery - Old	48.80592 26.03959	ESJF				✓
Borshchiv	Borshchiv	Mass Grave	48.80637 26.02302			YIU		✓
Buchach	Buchach	Cemetery	49.06383 25.40115	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ JGB CJA VW
Buchach	Buchach	Mass Grave - Cemetery	49.064 25.399*				LT
Buchach	Buchach	Mass Grave - Hill 1	49.056 25.401*		IAJGS	YIU
Buchach	Buchach	Mass Grave - Hill 2	49.056 25.411*		IAJGS	YIU
Budaniv	Terebovlia	Cemetery - New	49.15976 25.71691	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ CJA
Budaniv	Terebovlia	Cemetery - Old	49.15948 25.70937	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ CJA
Chortkiv	Chortkiv	Cemetery - Cholera	49.01788 25.78176	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ VW
Chortkiv	Chortkiv	Cemetery - New	49.00792 25.80146	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ VW
Chortkiv	Chortkiv	Cemetery - Old	49.01637 25.79182	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ GG VW
Chortkiv	Chortkiv	Mass Grave - Northeast	49.02682 25.84334					✓ VY
Chortkiv	Chortkiv	Mass Grave - Southwest	48.968 25.752*			YIU	LT	VY
Chystyliv	Ternopil	Mass Grave	49.611 25.566*			YIU
Dobrianka	Borshchiv	Mass Grave	48.840 25.955*			YIU
Dolyna	Terebovlia	Cemetery	49.21224 25.73552	ESJF				✓
Holovchyntsi	Zalishchyky	Mass Grave	48.823 25.737*			YIU
Hrymailiv	Husiatyn	Cemetery	49.33340 26.01662	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ GG VW
Hrymailiv	Husiatyn	Mass Grave - Cemetery	49.335 26.017*			YIU	LT	✓
Hrymailiv	Husiatyn	Mass Grave - Center	49.331 26.008*			YIU
Hrymailiv	Husiatyn	Mass Grave - Center West	49.331 26.007*			YIU
Hrymailiv	Husiatyn	Mass Grave - Southeast	49.328 26.020*			YIU
Husiatyn	Husiatyn	Cemetery	49.07256 26.19359	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ VW FPC VY
Husiatyn	Husiatyn	Mass Grave	49.07301 26.20626		IAJGS	YIU	LT	✓
Kalne	Kozova	Mass Grave	49.385 25.155*			YIU
Kamianky	Pidvolochysk	Mass Grave - Center	49.544 26.022*			YIU
Kamianky	Pidvolochysk	Mass Grave - Southeast	49.529 26.054*				LT
Kamianky	Pidvolochysk	Mass Grave - West	49.546 26.016*			YIU
Kasperivtsi	Zalishchyky	Cemetery	48.66204 25.84985	ESJF				✓
Katerynivka	Kremenets	Cemetery	50.00381 25.87461	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓
Katerynivka	Kremenets	Mass Grave	49.99567 25.88805		IAJGS	YIU	LT	✓
Khorostkiv	Husiatyn	Cemetery	49.21978 25.91528	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓
Khorostkiv	Husiatyn	Mass Grave	49.219 25.935*		IAJGS		LT
Kopychyntsi	Husiatyn	Cemetery - New	49.09927 25.90417	ESJF			LT	✓ GG CJA
Kopychyntsi	Husiatyn	Cemetery - Old	49.10555 25.90596	ESJF	IAJGS			✓ GG
Kopychyntsi	Husiatyn	Mass Grave - East 1	49.097 25.925*			YIU	LT
Kopychyntsi	Husiatyn	Mass Grave - East 2	49.099 25.927*			YIU	LT
Kopychyntsi	Husiatyn	Mass Grave - West	49.095 25.898*			YIU
Korolivka	Borshchiv	Cemetery	48.74700 25.99845	ESJF			LT	✓ CJA VW
Koropets	Monastyryska	Cemetery	48.93392 25.18547	ESJF				✓ CJA
Koropets	Monastyryska	Mass Grave	48.934 25.187*			YIU
Kosiv	Chortkiv	Mass Grave	49.115 25.624*			YIU
Kozliv	Kozova	Cemetery	49.54901 25.35661	ESJF				✓
Kozova	Kozova	Cemetery	49.42627 25.14240	ESJF				✓ VW GA
Kozova	Kozova	Mass Grave	49.423 25.146*			YIU
Kremenets	Kremenets	Cemetery	50.10637 25.73473	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ CJA VW
Kremenets	Kremenets	Mass Grave 1	50.11751 25.69552		IAJGS		LT	✓ CJA
Kremenets	Kremenets	Mass Grave 2	50.09381 25.71825				LT	✓ VY
Kremenets	Kremenets	Mass Grave 3	50.09227 25.71844					✓ VY
Kryvche	Borshchiv	Cemetery	48.69386 26.10387	ESJF				✓
Lanivtsi	Lanivtsi	Cemetery - New	49.85845 26.10253	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ CJA
Lanivtsi	Lanivtsi	Cemetery - Old	49.86909 26.09279	ESJF	IAJGS			✓
Lanivtsi	Lanivtsi	Mass Grave	49.85846 26.10235		IAJGS	YIU		✓
Lavrykivtsi	Zboriv	Mass Grave	49.647 25.057*			YIU
Litiatyn	Berezhany	Mass Grave	49.384 25.022*			YIU
Melnytsia Podilska	Borshchiv	Cemetery - New	48.61241 26.16672	ESJF				✓ CJA VW
Melnytsia Podilska	Borshchiv	Cemetery - Old	48.61146 26.16551	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓
Melnytsia Podilska	Borshchiv	Mass Grave	48.612 26.167*		IAJGS	YIU
Monastyryska	Monastyryska	Cemetery - New	49.08838 25.18034	ESJF				✓
Monastyryska	Monastyryska	Cemetery - Old	49.09370 25.16381	ESJF				✓
Monastyryska	Monastyryska	Mass Grave	49.089 25.179*			YIU		✓
Mshanets	Terebovlia	Mass Grave	49.222 25.778*			YIU
Mukhavka	Chortkiv	Mass Grave	48.898 25.729*			YIU
Mykulyntsi	Terebovlia	Cemetery	49.38863 25.61132	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ GG
Mykulyntsi	Terebovlia	Mass Grave	49.389 25.612*				LT	✓
Mylivtsi	Chortkiv	Mass Grave - Northwest 1	48.888 25.813*			YIU
Mylivtsi	Chortkiv	Mass Grave - Northwest 2	48.885 25.815*			YIU
Mylivtsi	Chortkiv	Mass Grave - Northwest 3	48.886 25.815*			YIU
Nahirianka	Chortkiv	Mass Grave	48.934 25.740*			YIU	LT
Naraiv	Berezhany	Cemetery	49.52731 24.77960	ESJF				✓
Novyi Oleksynets	Kremenets	Cemetery	49.83516 25.50430	ESJF				✓
Okopy	Borshchiv	Cemetery	48.54085 26.40868	ESJF				✓
Ozeriany	Borshchiv	Cemetery - New	48.87323 25.95203	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ CJA
Ozeriany	Borshchiv	Cemetery - Old	48.87516 25.94987	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓
Ozeriany	Borshchiv	Mass Grave	48.873 25.952*			YIU	LT	✓
Ozerna	Zboriv	Cemetery	49.62417 25.31266	ESJF				✓
Ozerna	Zboriv	Mass Grave	49.624 25.312*			YIU	LT	✓
Perevoloka	Buchach	Mass Grave					LT
Pidhaitsi	Pidhaitsi	Cemetery	49.26554 25.13225	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ JGB CJA GG VW
Pidhaitsi	Pidhaitsi	Mass Grave - Cemetery	49.26511 25.13281		IAJGS	YIU	LT	✓
Pidhaitsi	Pidhaitsi	Mass Grave - East	49.275 25.170*			YIU	LT
Pidhaitsi	Pidhaitsi	Mass Grave - North	49.279 25.132*			YIU
Pidvolochysk	Pidvolochysk	Cemetery	49.52347 26.14938	ESJF				✓
Pidvolochysk	Pidvolochysk	Mass Grave	49.53405 26.14072			YIU	LT	✓ VY
Pidvysoke	Naraiv	Cemetery	49.39246 24.78911	ESJF
Plebanivka	Terebovlia	Mass Grave	49.28769 25.71958		IAJGS	YIU	LT	✓
Plotycha	Ternopil	Mass Grave	49.615 25.573*			YIU
Pochaiv	Kremenets	Cemetery	49.99772 25.51896	ESJF			LT	✓
Pochaiv	Kremenets	Mass Grave 1	49.998 25.519*		IAJGS	YIU	LT
Pochaiv	Kremenets	Mass Grave 2	50.004 25.520*				LT
Pomirtsi	Buchach	Mass Grave - West 1	49.005 25.432*			YIU
Pomirtsi	Buchach	Mass Grave - West 2	49.006 25.430*			YIU
Probizhna	Chortkiv	Cemetery	49.02763 25.97905	ESJF				✓ VW
Probizhna	Chortkiv	Mass Grave	49.027 25.979*			YIU
Rokhmaniv	Shumsk	Cemetery	50.13003 26.08799	ESJF				✓
Rosokhach	Chortkiv	Mass Grave	48.940 25.810*			YIU
Rozhanivka	Zalishchyky	Mass Grave	48.844 25.697*			YIU
Shulhanivka	Chortkiv	Mass Grave	48.957 25.711*			YIU
Shumsk	Shumsk	Cemetery - New	50.11937 26.12340	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓
Shumsk	Shumsk	Cemetery - Old	50.12381 26.11557	ESJF				✓
Shumsk	Shumsk	Mass Grave	50.115 26.107*		IAJGS	YIU	LT
Skala-Podilska	Borshchiv	Cemetery	48.84945 26.19744	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ GG CJA VW
Skala-Podilska	Borshchiv	Mass Grave	48.850 26.197*			YIU
Skalat	Pidvolochysk	Cemetery	49.42957 25.98280	ESJF				✓ VW
Skalat	Pidvolochysk	Mass Grave - Center	49.430 25.982*			YIU
Skalat	Pidvolochysk	Mass Grave - East	49.43496 26.00250			YIU	LT	✓ VW
Staryi Vyshnivets	Zbarazh	Mass Grave	49.88625.756*			YIU	LT
Strusiv	Terebovlia	Cemetery	49.34000 25.60883	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓
Stupky	Ternopil	Mass Grave	49.535 25.758*			YIU
Svydova	Chortkiv	Mass Grave	48.878 25.723*				LT	VY
Terebovlia	Terebovlia	Cemetery	49.30556 25.69162	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ GG
Ternopil	Ternopil	Cemetery - New	49.53831 25.60329	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ GG CJA VW
Ternopil	Ternopil	Cemetery - Old	49.54670 25.60059	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ GG
Ternopil	Ternopil	Mass Grave - Southeast 1	49.544 25.602*			YIU
Ternopil	Ternopil	Mass Grave - Southeast 2	49.541 25.597*			YIU
Ternopil	Ternopil	Mass Grave - Southwest	49.54020 25.57514			YIU	LT	✓ VY
Tovste	Zalishchyky	Cemetery	48.84961 25.73207	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ JGB GG CJA VW
Tovste	Zalishchyky	Mass Grave	48.84941 25.73229		IAJGS	YIU	LT	✓
Travotoloky	Zboriv	Mass Grave	49.644 25.058*			YIU
Uhryn	Chortkiv	Mass Grave	48.993 25.842*			YIU
Ulashkivtsi	Chortkiv	Cemetery - New	48.89805 25.83116	ESJF				✓
Ulashkivtsi	Chortkiv	Cemetery - Old	48.90029 25.82422	ESJF				✓
Ulashkivtsi	Chortkiv	Mass Grave	48.903 25.823*			YIU
Ustechko	Zalishchyky	Cemetery	48.77498 25.59075	ESJF				✓ GG
Ustia	Borshchiv	Cemetery	48.61235 26.08563	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓
Ustia-Zelene	Monastyryska	Cemetery	49.02162 24.96351	ESJF				✓ CJA
Velyki Berezhtsi	Kremenets	Cemetery	50.10236 25.59443	ESJF				✓
Velyki Birky	Ternopil	Mass Grave	49.525 25.740*				LT
Velykyi Hlybochok	Borshchiv	Mass Grave - Center	49.617 25.534*			YIU
Velykyi Hlybochok	Borshchiv	Mass Grave - Northeast	49.623 25.540*			YIU	LT
Vyshhorodok	Lanivtsi	Cemetery - New	49.76345 25.96855	ESJF				✓
Vyshhorodok	Lanivtsi	Cemetery - Old	49.76580 25.97288	ESJF				✓
Vyshnivchyk	Terebovlia	Cemetery	49.23312 25.37933	ESJF				✓
Vyshnivets	Zbarazh	Cemetery - Center	49.90099 25.74386	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓
Vyshnivets	Zbarazh	Cemetery - New	49.90897 25.74711	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ CJA VW
Vyshnivets	Zbarazh	Cemetery - Old	49.90464 25.74421	ESJF	IAJGS			✓ CJA VW
Vyshnivets	Zbarazh	Mass Grave - Cemetery					LT
Vyshnivets	Zbarazh	Mass Grave - South					LT
Yabluniv	Husiatyn	Cemetery	49.14950 25.85279	ESJF				✓
Yahilnytsia	Chortkiv	Cemetery	48.94053 25.75350	ESJF				✓ GA
Yahilnytsia	Chortkiv	Mass Grave	48.967 25.752*				LT	VY
Yazlovets	Buchach	Cemetery	48.96574 25.44355	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ CJA VW
Zalishchyky	Zalishchyky	Cemetery	48.64416 25.72714	ESJF				✓ VW
Zalishchyky	Zalishchyky	Mass Grave - Center	48.642 25.727*			YIU
Zalishchyky	Zalishchyky	Mass Grave - North	48.65568 25.73477			YIU	LT	✓
Zaliztsi	Zboriv	Cemetery	49.79203 25.38015	ESJF				✓ GG VW
Zaliztsi	Zboriv	Mass Grave - Center	49.792 25.381*			YIU	LT
Zaliztsi	Zboriv	Mass Grave - North	49.802 25.382*			YIU
Zaliztsi	Zboriv	Mass Grave - South	49.777 25.378*			YIU
Zavaliv	Pidhaitsi	Cemetery	49.20753 25.02896	ESJF				✓
Zbarazh	Zbarazh	Cemetery - New	49.67415 25.76332	ESJF				✓ VW CJA
Zbarazh	Zbarazh	Cemetery - Old	49.66998 25.77528	ESJF				✓ GG VW
Zbarazh	Zbarazh	Mass Grave 1	49.681 25.767*			YIU	LT
Zbarazh	Zbarazh	Mass Grave 2					LT
Zboriv	Zboriv	Cemetery	49.66338 25.13387	ESJF				✓
Zboriv	Zboriv	Mass Grave - Center	49.665 25.144*			YIU
Zboriv	Zboriv	Mass Grave - Center North	49.66527 25.14403			YIU	LT	✓
Zboriv	Zboriv	Mass Grave - Northwest	49.673 25.128*			YIU	LT
Zolotnyky	Terebovlia	Cemetery	49.28892 25.36890	ESJF				✓
Zolotyi Potik	Buchach	Cemetery	48.91168 25.34083	ESJF	IAJGS		LT	✓ CJA VW
Zozulyntsi	Zalishchyky	Mass Grave - West 1	48.590 25.901*			YIU
Zozulyntsi	Zalishchyky	Mass Grave - West 2	48.592 25.897*			YIU

As noted above, we expect that this table may be incomplete and may contain errors. Contact information to submit additions and corrections for inclusion is listed at the bottom of the overview page.

Identified Jewish Burial Sites on the Map

The interactive map below locates and labels all of the identified Jewish burial sites from the table above, covering both cemeteries and mass graves in contrasting colors. Identified burial sites in other oblasts of western Ukraine are also shown, in different colors. Because there are hundreds of burial sites shown on the map, the pin set is very dense, and it helps to zoom the map to distinguish individual sites. Although all or nearly all cemeteries are displayed on the map, only the mass grave sites with precisely-defined locations are shown here; for many mass grave sites, only approximate or unverified locations are known, and research continues to better locate them for memorial purposes.