Jewish cemetery, Khotyn

According to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the town was almost entirely Jewish or Russian.

This created a uniformity of culture that endured throughout the different occupations of Khotyn (Bessarabia in the late 1800s, Austria during the 1910s, the Soviet Army in June 1940, Romania in 1941, and the USSR in 1944).

The town in 1930 was composed of 38% Jews, and roughly the same percentage of Russians, Romanians and Ukrainians.

[2] The US Government organisation "Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad," cited above, provides an excellent reference for the Jewish cemeteries of Ukraine.

Some tombstones have traces of painting on their surfaces, portraits on stones, and/or metal fences around graves.

The report suggests that the cemetery contains no mass graves; in fact, the location includes a monument to those Jewish citizens killed in the 1941 occupation.