Novyi Strilyscha

I was first in Novyi Strilyscha in 2006.  At that time I visited the cemetery and found a large area that contained only the foundation of a very small structure and one stone that had been found elsewhere and brought to the cemetery. I was told that a survey of the cemetery area had been done and that it was to be fenced.  Further, I was told that under Communism the cemetery had been included in the land of a collective farming operation and that the actual cemetery had been under the water of a man-made lake that was part of the collective farm. This information came from local people who lived adjacent to the cemetery.

In 2010, we visited Novyi Strilyscha again and found that about twenty stones had been collected and laid out at the cemetery.  As best we could tell from the statements of a local man who said that he had worked on the project, the stones had been recovered from the Novyi Strilyscha cemetery, that is, from the area that had formerly been under water.  In 2010 I saw that fence posts had been erected around the cemetery, but there was not yet a fence in place.

In 2006, the former synagogue appeared to be in use as a residence or apartment house.