טולטשין — בית החיים

Tulchyn — the Jewish cemetery

Tulchyn · טולטשין

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How to get there

Jewish cemetery, on the hillside in the town, Tulchyn, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine

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1.The old ground is on a hillside inside the town and you turn straight off a public road into it. The fence is broken and the gate locks, but access is open to all — the caretaker who has held the key is recorded as Mikhail Abramovitch Bartik. There is a second, modern cemetery opened in 1984, unfenced, which is not the one to walk.
2.AN OHEL STANDS ON THE GROUND and it is the only structure there. No source found says whose it is, so this listing does not name him.
3.THE OLDEST READABLE MATZEVAH IS FROM 1732 — Reb Avraham, son of Reb Shaulya. Between one and five thousand stones survive, a quarter to a half of them down, and many more were taken away into the town's roads and buildings. Some carry portraits and some have iron railings round them, which is a Podolian style and not a mistake.
4.THERE ARE MARKED MASS GRAVES IN THE CEMETERY from December 1941. Tulchyn's Jews were driven out to Pechera that winter, and this ground holds some of what was done here first.

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Iași (IAS)Iași International· 190 km · 118 mi straight-line· regional
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Chișinău (KIV)Chișinău International· 194 km · 121 mi straight-line· regional
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Kyiv (IEV)Kyiv Zhuliany (Ihor Sikorsky)· 224 km · 139 mi straight-line· regional
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Who is buried here

Known kevarim

רבי אברהם בן רבי שאוליא

Rabbi Avraham son of Rabbi Shaulya

Yahrzeit: 5492 / 1732

His matzevah is the oldest one still readable in the cemetery. The survey records the stone and the year and nothing further about him, and neither does this listing.

Verification and source

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