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Cemetery Information
| Cemetery Identification |
| Cemetery ID: |
USA-01534
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| Cemetery Name: |
Mt. Hebron Cemetery |
| Section: |
Piateroter Young Men's Benevolent Association |
| Cemetery Location |
| Country: |
USA |
| State: | New York |
| City: |
Queens |
| Street: |
130-04 Horace Harding Expressway, Flushing |
| Cemetery Details |
| Number of Burials: |
80 |
| Number of Photographs: |
65 |
| Cemetery Description: |
The Piateroter (sometimes spelled Pioteroter) Young Men's Benevolent Association section is located in Block 5 (on the side facing on Block 6) on path 32. There is no indication of the name of the landsmanshaft at the entrance to the section. The Piateroter Y.M.B.A. was founded in January 1909 in New York by landsmen from Piaterota, the unofficial Yiddish name for a small town located in Ukraine near the northern border of Kherson guberniya, at 48°45'N, 30°59'E. Its official name, according to U.S.S.R. Official Standard Names, Gazeteer No. 42, published by the U. S. Board on Geographic Names (1970), was Kalnibolot, and this reference (which is the source used by the Jewishgen Shtetl Finder) also lists it as having unofficial names Kalniboloto and Pyataya Rota. The latter name, which means "Fifth Army" in Russian, is the source of the unofficial Yiddish name Piaterota, not listed there. Unfortunately, Pyataya Rota does not have the same soundex code as Piaterota, which makes it difficult to locate Piaterota in the Shtetl Finder. Piaterota should not be confused with another shtetl, Katerinopol (or Yekaterinopol), located about 10 miles north of Piaterota in Kiev guberniya, which also has the unofficial name Kalniboloto, and was generally called Kalnibolot by the Jews living there; Where Once We Walked makes this error (at least the first edition did). I am quite certain that the above identification of Piaterota is correct, because Carl Ulanoff, who came from there, told me the names of other nearby towns and their distances, and his cousin Jean Wollen, who also came from there, told me the names of some other nearby towns, and all of this information is consistent with the above identification. When the plot at Mt. Hebron Cemetery began to get full, another plot was purchased at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, NY, on Long Island. The Piateroter Young Men's Benevolent Association was disbanded about 1979. The people buried here are probably all either from Piaterota, or in a few cases from nearby towns, since the Piateroter Y.M.B.A. is known to have had some members who came from other towns near Piaterota. Most of the people, even those buried after 1979, have names that are found in the membership lists. In the plot at Beth David Cemetery, which was far from full when the Piateroter Y.M.B.A. was disbanded, it is possible that some of the graves from after 1979 were sold to people who had no connection to Piaterota or to the Piateroter Y.M.B.A. When I visited the plot at Mt. Hebron Cemetery in 1980, I'm sure it had an archway and gate, similar to the one that is still found at the plot at Beth David Cemetery, but the archway and gate at Mt. Hebron Cemetery were no longer there when I visited it in June 2005, apparently destroyed by the vandals who attacked Mt. Hebron Cemetery a few years earlier. The vandals also knocked over two of the headstones in the Piateroter Y.M.B.A. plot, and removed several of the photographs that were embedded in the headstones, as noted in the "Comments/Notes" column. I gathered this data in June 2005, with help from my cousin Kenneth Gerver, and my son Avi Gerver, a talented professional photographer (www.avigerver.com) who took the photographs. (The original photographs were much higher resolution, but I had to reduce the resolution to meet the requirements of JOWBR.) Although in many cases I knew the names of people's spouses and parents, I only listed those names in the appropriate columns when I had obtained this information from death certificates, in accordance with the JOWBR rules. In the case of spouses, I assumed that having a double headstone was sufficient evidence that two people were married. In all other cases, I listed the information I had under the "Comments/Notes" column, and noted that it was from family knowledge. The line and grave numbers are those used by the cemetery office, with Line 1 all the way in the back, and counting the graves from left to right when facing the graves. In the numbering system used by the office, there is no Grave 5 in any of the lines, because this is the position occupied by the path. In transliterating Hebrew names, I have tried to indicate the Hebrew/Yiddish spelling. For example, some women's Yiddish names may end in "a", "e" or "ah" depending on whether they are spelled with an aleph, an ayin, or a he at the end. Similarly, in a transliteration like "Beril," the "i" indicates a yod in the Yiddish spelling. However, for standard Hebrew names like Moshe, I have used the standard English transliteration, and not, for example, "Mosheh" to indicate the "he" at the end.
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| Data last updated: |
05/01/2006 |
| Landsmanshaft Info |
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| Town & Country of origin: | Katerynopil', Ukraine 
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