Olevsk, Ukraine Cemetery Description
Olevsk Old Jewish Cemetery dates from 19th century. It was closed in beginning of 20th century. As the city continued to grow, the cemetery became situated in the middle of new construction. New homes were built over Jewish graves. Only a small portion of the cemetery survived with only 5 gravestones present and others broken or removed. The oldest gravestone dates from 1891.
In the middle of the cemetery is an Ohel. It is the last resting place of the renowned Tsadikks from Ludmir (present day Volodymyr-Volynsky): Rabbi Ishua Gottlieb (died in 1889) and his son Rabbi Levi Itzhak Gottlieb (died in 1929). They were descendants of two prominent Hassidic Dynasties. Rabbi Ishua Gottlieb was the great-grandson of Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin and Rabbi Mordechai Twersky of Chernobyl and grandson of Rabbi Moshe from Ludmir and Grand Rabbi Aaron Twersky from Chernobyl. The Olevsk Ohel is one of the only few Jewish sites in the world that survived virtually untouched. Information is based on archives records and Gottlieb family history.
See “Olevsk_Ohel_and_history_of_Rabbis_Ishua_and_Levi_Itzhak_Gottlieb_from_Ludmir”
For additional photos of the Ohel, please see The Hebrew University of Jerusalem website at http://cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?mode=set&id=23820
Photos by Natalya Mazurskaya, great granddaughter of Rabbi Levi Itzhak and Leonid Kogan, ethnographer, who surveyed Olevsk Old Jewish Cemetery in 1996 as part of the project for preservation Jewish Heritage in Ukraine conducted by the United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad and The Jewish Preservation Committee of Ukraine.
Gottlieb family ohel
Graves near ohel
Other graves near ohel
Homes near ohel
Map of Olevsk
Map of Olevsk ohel
Entrace to ohel
Photo of Rabbi Levi Itzhak Gottlieb
For questions and more information please contact Mila Zatulovsky, great granddaughter of Rabbi Levi Itzhak at zlovsky@gmail.com
