BALTA'S OLD CEMETERIES
There are 2 Jewish cemeteries still existing in the town of Balta.
Unfortunately, we have not revealed any gravestones from the first centuries of the town's history. However there is still a solid number of tombstones from the 19th and early beginning of the 20th centuries.
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1. Northern Jewish Cemetery
A Road to the Cemetery
At the beginning of the 20th century it was known as a New Jewish Cemetery.
Now the cemetery has a continuous fence with a non-locking gate. About 3000 stones exist, most in original location. For more info see http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/e-europe/ukra-b.html Balta III section.
General view of the central part of the cemetery
Mazevas
Memorial to the victims of the 7th of august 1941, an episode of Shoah.
A gravestone from the cemetery (Ides Pisarevska, +1915)
2. Southern Jewish Cemetery
The cemetery was found in the early 19th century. It is located in highly inhabited part of the town. Recently in was rounded with a new fence. It is a typical cemetery of an yiddish shtetl. See also http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/e-europe/ukra-b.html (Balta IV)
Examples of mazevas (tombstones) from the cemetery
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