Ukrainian       
Cities and Shtetls  

http://ddickerson.igc.org/vrjc-jewish-ukraine-links.html

Ukrainian Language, Culture and Travel
Included at this web site, are photos of synagogues and memorials along with articles about Jewish culture 
http://pages.prodigy.net/l.hodges/ukraine.htm

"A Guide to Finding Your Town" - Ukraine GenWeb
http://rootsweb.com/~ukrwgw/ukrainetown.html

A Picture Gallery of Ukrainian Cities
http://www.mtu-net.ru/rrr/ukraine.htm

The page shows up in Russian, but if you scroll down the page and there are English links.  If you click on the second choice you will get to the index called Ukraine: A Historical Atlas.

"Bricha"
Authored by Joseph Eisenbruch. This is a story of Joseph Eisenbruch, a native of L'viv, Holocaust survivor and one of the founders of the "Bricha" movement that brought Jews from Europe to Eretz Israel. He made Aliyah in the summer of 1945.  The book can be read on-line in both Hebrew and English
www.lookingback.co.il

List and a Map of Agricultural Colonies
From Our Father's Harvest Supplement by Chaim Freedman. In 1983, a detailed large scale map was discovered in the library of the University of Texas by Michoel Ronn. whose family came from the region.  Click at the bottom of the page.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Colonies_of_Ukraine/

"Spisok Naselennikh Mest Kienskoy Gubernii"

The List of Shtetls of Kiev Guberniya with Index.  Available in some major libraries in the US

Maps 

Guberniyas
Russian for Province or county and was used by the Imperial Russian Government as the term for its major administrative units. Divided into Uyezds (districts) (a corrupted word for the old Russian district - it should read: Uyezd [ooh yeh zd],  then into Volosts which are similar to counties.

The boundaries of a Uyezd, Guberniyas and the counties itself was in a constant state of flux before World War I.

Abazovka

A Jewish agricultural colony near Balta, founded around 1850.  It no longer exists, but it's on maps from the 1930's and earlier.  Alan Shuchat ashuchat@wellesley.edu hired a private researcher who found census (reviziia) records for Alan's family from the 1850's and 1870's

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/UKR-ODESSA-GEN/2001-11/1006364105

Alupka

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1336-alupka

Alushta

Anapol

There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives

Antratsyt

http://drymba.net/en/map/1030603-antratsyt-district

Artasuv

Yizkor Book
"Khurbn Jaryczow bay Lemberg: Sefer Zikaron le-Keoshei Jaryczow y-Sevivoteha"
(Destruction of Jaryczow: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Jaryczow and Surroundings Ukraine)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Artemivsk

Bachkurino

Located in Podolia Oblast near the border with Kiev Guberniya.

Bakhchysaray

Balta

Banilow

Bar

Located now in Horodok Raion, west of L'viv.

Baranovichi

Had a population of 22,848. It was a rail junction and manufacturing center and had a teacher's college. Chester G. Cohen's "Shtetl Finder Gazetteer" states that Baranovichi was authorized for Jewish residence in 1903.

Yizkor Book

Belaya Tserkov

Located south of Kiev

Belgorod-Dnestrovsky  (Bilgorod-Dnistrovskiy)

Beliivka (Belilovka)

A small settlement in the former Kiev Guberniya, today in Zhitomir oblast. It is located southwest of Kiev

Belozerka

Located 317.6 km west southwest of Kiev

Berdichev (Berdychiv, Berdichiv, Berdiciv, Berdychiv)

 Berdichev Cemetery where my half brother Moshe is buried.  This is a 'non religious' cemetery for both Jews and Gentiles.  Pictured is his tombstone.  Note his picture which is very common in Russian and Ukrainian cemetery tombstones.

The Berdichev' s Jewish population increased mostly in the 1700s, but was a very small minority until then. There still is a small Jewish community, with a Rabbi, still existing in this town. Located west of Kiev. 

Books  
             

"The Bones of Berdichev"
which goes into great detail about this larger town.  There is a Berdichev List Manager, Jeanne Gold who monitors a list at
http://berdichev.digging4roots.com

"The World of a Hasidic Master: Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev",
By Samuel H. Dresner (Ch. 8, citation 5),  a passage was cited from the book,
"Siftei Tzadikkim" Published in Lemberg (L'viv) in 1863, and republished in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1996/1997. Author was Pinhas of Dinovitz.

Another site that offers a statistical review of "Berditschew Artificers" taken from an 1844 edition of "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums," and mentions the number of participants in each of the various trades to be found among the then 30,000 Jewish inhabitants
http://jewish-history.com/Occident/volume2/nov1844/berditcchew.html

In the "Berditschew Artificers" it states: "In Berditschew, a town containing about 30,000 Jewish inhabitants, there are nine merchants of the first, twelve of the second, and about 500 of the third rank.  There are 274 corn handlers, 205 butchers, and a great many fish, fruit and vegetable salesmen.  There are builders, dyers, three engravers, forty goldsmiths, six painters, seventeen watchmakers, thirty musicians."

Berdichev
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/berdichev/berdichev1.html

A movie (in black and white with subtitles) , 'Komissar' is a work of visual and literary art that symbolically speaks to Jewish past and future of time depicted and was banned in 1962, when it was produced, according to Diane Kriegman Claussen didado@mindspring.com

Berdyansk (Berdiansk, Berdyansi'k)

Holocaust
There is a Holocaust Memorial outside of the town. 

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Colonies_of_Ukraine/berdyansk.htm

Books  
             

'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' 
http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html

Beregovo

Berets

Previously located in the Novy Sanch county.  There were a total of 38,500 residents of which 2,620 were Jews.  In the town itself, there were 20 Jews.

Berezhany

Located in the Ternopol Oblast.  Berezhany is the Ukrainian name; in the Polish language and the name it had during Austrian period is Brzezany, with the 'z' having a dot above it (a diacritical mark).

Hamlets and Villages of the Berezhany area
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/zemla.htm

Registry Office (RAHS)
Office is located in the town.  Records may also be found in the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in L'viv (TsDIA-L'viv).

Memorial page to bygone world of Berezhany Jews
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/brzezaner.htm

Berezovka (Beresovka, Berezovke, Berozovka)

A town in Odessa Oblast and 88 km from Odessa.  Early records indicate that Jews lived there, or in nearby Nikolayev since 1794.  

Cemetery
There is still a Jewish cemetery, located at 127 East Tanastyshina Street. 

Pogrom
A pogrom was instigated on April 4, 1881 and out of 161 buildings owned by Jews, only the Synagogue and a pharmacy were untouched.  Another pogrom in October, 1905 was stopped by the local residents.  In 1897 there were 3,458 Jews, nearly 57% of the residents and in 1926 there were 3,223 or 42.3%.

Bershad

A town in Vinnitsa oblast, approximately midway between Kiev and Odessa, and slightly to the west near the Bug river.

Books  
             

"The Shtetl: Image and Reality"
Edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov and published by The University of Oxford in 2000, Alla Sokolova's study is entitled "The Podolian Shtetl as Architectural Phenomenon."  The author describes the general layout of the town and discusses the architecture and interiors of many of the buildings she visited.

Bialoholovy (Bialoglowy - Poland)

Research
Ternopol Oblast Archives has data on this village.  Write (preferably in Ukrainian or Russian, though English will probably work) to:

UKRAINA, 282000, Ternopol,
vul. Sahaidachnoho 14,
Derzhavnyi Arkhiv Ternopilskoi Oblasti  

The Director is Bogdan Khavarivsky. 
Phone: 0352 224495  Fax: 0352 228618 

Bihali / Bihale area

In 1785 there were 346 Greek Catholics, 120 Roman Catholics and 6 Jews. In 1938, there were 2,234 Greek Catholics, 1,500 Roman Catholics and 75 Jews.  Most of the Greek Catholics were probably Ukrainians and most of the Roman Catholics were Poles.

Bila Tserkva (Belaya Tserkov)

Bistra

http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/villages.htm

Bobrka (G) - (Bibrka, Bobree, Bobrice) 

http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/lviv.htm

http://www.jewish-guide.pl/sites/33

Bogopol   (Pervomaysk)

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=980CE7DC153AE733A25752C0A9649D946497D6CF

Boguslav (Boslov)

The name of this town means "Glory to the God" in several Slavic languages.  Boguslav had a large Jewish pre-war population of over six thousand.

Bohorodczany (G) (Bohorodchangy, Bogorodchany, Bohorodchany, or Bohordczany) 

At one time it was a part of the Poland Kingdom, but today, it is in Ukraine.  It was an administrative center and is located about 20 km. southwest of Stanislawow (Ivano-Frankivsk). A map of the city and area is available.  Type in the name of the city and the country.  Contact is Susannah R. Juni 
http://www.mapquest.com

Bolekhiv (G) (Bolechov, Bolechow, Bolekhov, Bolekhev)

This is a shtetl that is close to Ivano Frankiv'sk (Stanislawow) which had a thriving Jewish community with four synagogues prior to WW II. On August 25, 1943 3,200 Jews were deported from Bolechov to Stanislavov.  On September 3, 1942, 2,000 Jews from Bolechov were deported to Belzec.  It is about an hour and a half from L'vov.

"Maskalim and Haskala (Enlightenment) Movement in Bolekhiv in the 19th Century". There is a   translation of a 35 page chapter by Dr. M. Hendel  This movement influenced the lives of many of our ancestors.

Cemetery
The Jewish Cemetery in this shtetl is in poor condition and contains many mass graves.

http://bolechow.ajmendelsohn.com/html/bolechow.html

Bolshiye Mosty (Velikiye Mosty)

Following the end of WWII, this town was known in Russian as Bolshiye Mosty, and currently town is renamed in Ukrainian as Velikiye Mosty which is direct translation of its German or Polish name of "The Tall Bridges".

The town is located at 5014 2409 on the Rata River, contributory of the Western Bug River, about a halfway between Zolkva (Z'olkiew) and Chervonograd (Krystynopol) on the highway #A256.

Another small Jewish shtetl known as Mosty Male (The Little Bridges) is located in the vicinity over the nearby border in Poland.

Bolshovtsy

This shtetl was at one time in Galicia, now currently Bolshovtsy

Borislav (G) (Boryslaw, Borislaw)

Located in the western part of Ukraine in the L'vov district and was an important Jewish town in Eastern Galicia prior to WW II.  It is 200 km from Krosno.

Holocaust
The Nazis destroyed the Jewish Community on February 24th.  There are currently some 40 Jews, the majority originally from other cities and towns in the former USSR and who are married to Gentile Ukrainians.
www.krosno.pl/english/Partner_cities/index.asp?txt=Boryslaw.txt

Borshchiv (G) (Borschev, Borszczo'w the Ukrainian name- Borszczow is the Polish name and was the Austrian place
                                name, Borshchev was the Soviet era place name.) 

It is near Cziortko'w currently known as Chortkov.  The town name "Borszczow"  is associated with the Borszcz (Barszcz or Borscht), the beetroot soup.

Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Borshchovichi

Yizkor Book
"Khurbn Jaryczow bay Lemberg; Sefer Zikaron le-Keoshei Jaryczow y-Sevivoteha"
(Destruction of Jaryczow: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Jarczow and Surroundings Ukraine)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Borynychi

Research
These are Jewish sounding names of soldiers who came from this village and were listed as being dead - Koval, Sharan.  This information was obtained from a book of military deaths owned by Edward Drebot

Boryspil

Borzna

ShtetLinks
http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/borzna/borzna.htm

Bosivka (Bosovka)

Located 106.3 miles south southwest of Kiev

Boyarka

Located in the Kiev Guberniya and in 1897 it had a population of 1,793 with 720 being Jews

Breslov

A Chassidic Shtetl west of Uman along the Bug River. Terhevitsa, Zlatipolia, Gusyatin, Shpola, Kaniblad, Tcherin, Medvedovka are a group of towns to the east of Breslov and not far from a lake.  Across the lake is Kremenchug.  Rabbi Nachman' s main disciple is buried here.  A good deal of information can be found at this site
http://www.breslov.org/index.html

Brody (G)

Located in Brodivs'kyi Raion, L'vivska Oblast. It is about 90 km NE of L'viv. Marjorie Rosenfeld marjorierosenfeld@sbcglobal.net  has a Brody web site.  She has finished the 17th through the 19th century records translations and is now developing the 20th century records.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Brody/brody.htm

Synagogue
Photo of old fortress synagogue 
http://members.tripod.com/~mikerosenzweig/polsynagog.htm

Broshnev

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bolekhov/index.htm

Brovary

Bryanka

Bryansk

Had a Jewish presence and does have an Archive

Buchach (G) (Bucac, Buczacz)  

Located about 40 miles east of Ivano-Frankivsk by the Strypa River and near Brzezany.  It is a county seat with a population of over 15,000. This shtetl had a strong, but small Jewish community and many of its citizens emigrated to the US.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/SuchostavRegion/sl_buczacz.htm

Research
It is quite possible that the historical Roman Catholic parish records, for this shtetl, as well as Dobrowody and Monasterzyska, and Pidhaitsi are now in the archives of Poland - specifically the Archives of the Presidium of the National Workers Council and the parish records are called the Zabuzanski Collection.  If the Dobrowody and Monasterzyska Roman Catholic parish records are not in the Zabuzanski Collection, then you will have to see if the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine has the records.
http://www.halgal.com/archivesineurope.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/buchach/buchach.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Buczacz

There are several hundred Jews living in the communities of Stanislawow  and the Rabbi name is Moshe Leib Kolesnik, a local man, trained by Chabad in Moscow.  He also helps the smaller Jewish communities of Kolomyya and Buczacz. 

Yizkor Book
"Sefer Buczacz; Matsevet Zikaron le-Kehila Kedosha" (Book of Buczacz; In Memory of a Martyred Community)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Budanov (G)

Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html

Bukachevtsy (Bukaczowce) Galicia

ShtetLinks
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bukaczowce/bukmain.htm

Bun'kovychi

     Located in a fairly wide river valley near the Carpathian Mountains and very close to Khyriv, another town.  

Maps

Burakuvla (G)

Burshtyn

Bushchyno (Bushtyna, Bushtino)

The Rusyn name for Bustyahaza.  Bustyahaza was the former Magyar (Hungarian) name.  During the Soviet period, it had the spelling Bushtyna, which is also the current Ukrainian spelling.  Bushtino was the former Czechoslovak official place name.

Busk (G)

Butsnevtsy (Butsni)

Chelguzov

186.9 miles west of Kiev and located in the Khmelnytska oblast

Cemeryntsi

Located in the country of Peremyshlany, L'viv province.  It is about 40 miles southeast by east of L'viv and about 10 miles east of Peremyshlany.

Cesanyky (Czesniki in Polish)

Located about 5 miles southeast of Rohatyn which is about 50 miles southeast of L'viv and 45 miles north of Ivano-Frankivsk. At one time it had over 1,800 inhabitants, but only a few Jews.

Cetatea Alba, city, Odessa Oblast (province) Akkerman, Belgorod - Dnestrovsky

Located in southernmost Ukraine.  In Turkish it is known as Akkerman and in Russian as Belgorod-Dnestrovsky.  There is a lot of historical information available
http://www.britannica.com/seo/b/bilhorod-dnistrovskyy/

Chelmniecki 

Cemetery
There is a small, neglected Jewish cemetery in what is now called Chelmniecki, Ukraine.

Chemerovitz - (Chernerovtsy, or Czemerowce)

Located near Kamenets-Podol'sk

Chernihiv (Chernigov)

Located in the Chernihivska Oblast (population of the oblast: 1,416,000)and its administrative center in the northern Dnepr lowlands in Ukraine. The city of Chernigov is situated on the right bank of the navigable Disna River.  The population in 1989 was 296,000.  It is one of the oldest, and important cities in the country and records go back to a.d. 907. The name of a Guberniya (province), and was also the capital city of that province.
http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/ru-pale.txt

Archive
Contains Jewish records including records from surrounding towns.

Photos
Entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' 
http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html

Cherkassy (Cherkassy, Cherkoss, Czerkasy)

Maps

Cherkaska Oblast Ukraine
Queries from those researching this Oblast.

Chernivtsi (Chernowitz)

Located in Chernivetska Oblast is in eastern Ukraine. 

Books  
             

"The Shtetl: Image and Reality"
Edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov and published by The University of Oxford in 2000, Alla Sokolova's study is entitled "The Podolian Shtetl as Architectural Phenomenon."  The author describes the general layout of the town and discusses the architecture and interiors of many of the buildings she visited.

The LDS Family History Library has Jewish records for Chernivtsi and is currently filming these records. 

Maps

Chernivtsi City Map
http://www.lemko.org/maps/cities/index.html

Photos
See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry'  http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html

Chernobyl (Chornobyl)

Chernorudka

A small village located on the edge of Berdichev

Chervonoe

Census
First available census: Revizskaya Skazka 1816. Next available census (Revizskaya Skazka 1834) In 1850 census

Chervonoarmeisk (Chervonoarmiis'ke, Radzivylov)

It is about 88 kilometers southwest of Rivne, formerly known as Radzivylov.

Chervonograd  (Cervonograd, Chervonohrad)

Chmil'nyk (Chmielnik)

Chop

Located in Uzhhorods'kyi Raion, Zakarpats'ka Oblast

Chopovichi

Located in Zhitomir province, 16 miles southeast of Korosten, near road #A225 (Korosten - Kyiv road)

Chorostkow (Khorostkiv, Khorostkov, Chorostkov)

Located about 30 km from Husiatyn (Husyatyn)  and 110 km. from Chernivtsi with a population of about 20,000

Chortkov (G) (Chortkiv)

Located south of Terebovlya.

"Chortkov Remembered: The Annihilation of a Jewish Community" 
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/SuchostavRegion/sl_czortkow.htm

Crimea

This is not a city, but a region that is a beautiful peninsular resort area on the Black Sea

Travel and Tourism
http://pages.prodigy.net/l.hodges/ukraine.htm

Czernowitz (Chernovitsy) - (see also Chemerovitz) 

About 50,000 Jews lived in this city before WW II and they represented Assimilationists, Zionists, Bundists, Yiddishists and a large Hasidic community. Jews began flocking to the area after the annexation of Bukovina to the Hapsburg Empire in 1774.  The Jews adopted Hapsburger German, kneading it in a manner that made it either Bukovinian or Czernowitzian. After WW II, it became a "gray" Ukrainian city, lacking the Jews who had carried their German culture into the heart of Eastern Europe.

The town had an extensive middle class: merchants, industrialists, doctors, lawyers and journalists, many of them consumers of culture. There were neighborhoods inhabited by traditional Jews, mostly in the city's poorer sections, and there was a certain amount of tension between the religiously observant and the assimilating class.  Some of the information obtained from an article in Haaretz authored by Aharon Appelfeld and published in the American Jewish World, April 18 2008 edition.

Books  
             

"My Czernowitz"
Authored by Zvi Yavetz, an emeritus professor of ancient history at Tel Aviv University.

"Terracotta Ovens Of My Childhood" 
Authored by Elite Olshtain.  A story of a little Jewish girl who survived the Holocaust by staying with her grandmother in the Czernowitz Ghetto, while her father fought in the Red Army and her mother was in a concentration camp.

Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG
Information is available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html

http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Places/Czernowitz

Dashiev (Dosha)

Located southwest of Kiev and southeast of Vinitza and was in the east Vinitza Oblast.  It had a population in 1920 of 5,481. Until 1930, it was known as Stary . 

Dbuosary

There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives

Debeslavtsi

Southeast of Kolomyia. 

  Map

Debno

Dedilov

Yizkor Book
"Khurbn Jaryczow bay Lemberg: Sefer Zikaron le Keshoshei Jaryczow y-Sevivoteha" 
(Destruction of Jaryczow: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Jarczow and Surroundings Ukraine)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Deliiv (Polish and Austrian  name was Delejow; Deleyuv, Deliyeve, Deliyevo)

268.2 miles WSW of Kyyiv 

Research
http://www.feefhs.org/links/Poland/kmsc/kmsc-df.html

Delyatin (including Dora and Lanchin) (G)

Holocaust
"List of Soviet Citizens of Delyatin Shot by German-Fascist Invaders"
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Derazhnia

Books  
             

Dervenia  

Maps

Dnepropetrovsk

Dobromil

Dolina (Galicia)

ShtetLinks
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Dolina/

Yizkor Book
translations.html

Dolzanka

Located in the Tarnopol District

Drogobych (Drohobitch) (Galicia)

ShtetLinks
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/drogobych/drogobych.html

Dzigovka

Books  
             

"The Shtetl: Image and Reality"
Edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov and published by The University of Oxford in 2000, Alla Sokolova's study is entitled "The Podolian Shtetl as Architectural Phenomenon."  The author describes the general layout of the town and discusses the architecture and interiors of many of the buildings she visited.

Dnipropetrovs'k - (Yekaterinoslav, Ekaterinoslav - now Ukraine)

The city of Dniepropetrovsk (UKR.) or Dnepropetrovsk (Russian) is situated on the Dnieper River (Dnepr or Dnipro) in East-Central Ukraine has a population of 1.1 million. 

The old fortress settlement has existed since the middle of the 16th century. The new town was founded in 1776 by the Russian Prince, Potemkin by order of Catherine II, Empress of the Russian Empire and was called Yekaterinoslav (Ekaterinoslav) from 1776 to 1926.

It is renamed Dniepropetrovsk. Located in the Dnipropetrovska Oblast and is located at coordinates 48 degrees 30 minutes latitude and 34 degrees 59 minutes longitude. Ekaterinoslav (variant spellings are Yekaterinoslav and Keterinoslav) which is now known as Dnepropetrovsk. During 1918 the town's name was Sicheslav (The Glory for Sich/Fortress of Cossacks). At one time this community had a Jewish community numbering in the tens of thousands. You could find pictures and much more information on the site. Eilat Gordin Levitan from a posting on JewishGen. Ekaterinoslav was a settlement of former Litvak Jews.

Ekaterinoslav
Index to Surnames from Ekaterinoslav and surrounding towns
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Coloniesof_Ukraine/surnamelist.htm

Photos
A photo gallery - 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' 
http://euroscopeusa.com/legacy_site/jewishworld.html

Dobromil

Research
Land records are at the L'viv Archives for most of the 19th century. Przemysl Archives has a variety of records over many years beginning with 1870
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bolekhov/index.htm

Jewish Birth, Marriage and Death records reside at the L'viv archives according to Kahlile Mehr, the Ukraine expert, who works for the Family History Library of Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dolina (G) (Dolena, Dolyna)

Yizkor Book
Located in the Tovmach region of Galicia.  There is a Yizkor Book that is currently being translated.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/stanislawow/gen/towns.htm

Donetsk (G) (Yozuvka, Stalino)

Photos
See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' 
http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html

Dniprodzerzhyns'k

A number of Dniprodzerzhyns'k web sites (some in English)

Drohobycz (G) (Drogobych, Drubich, Drogobic, Drohobitch)- (Once in Eastern Galicia, now Drogobych, in Western
                                 Ukraine)

Drohobycz Administrative District
At this excellent website, Valerie Schatzker has offered an insight into the lifestyle of the Jews of the area and the petroleum industry.  Included in the records for this Administrative center are the vital records for nearby smaller towns and villages.  Contact the town leader for further information: Carole Glick Feinberg feincgs@cs.comdz_histoil.htm

Information on both the town and the Drohobych district http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm

This town was formerly in Galicia.  For additional information, please Jewish Genealogy to go to my web page  Galicia

Cemetery lists

Photographs

Additional information at my Ukrainian web page by clicking here Ukraine

Births: 1877-1897  
Marriages: 1877-1881, 1884-1897, (1886-1891, 1893-1897);  
Deaths:  1852-1896 

Vital records are available at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw and is indexed by JRI-Poland: 
Births: 1877-1897 
Marriages: 1877-1881, 1184, 1886-1891, 1893-1897; 
Deaths:  1852-1896

Yizkor Book
A translation of the "Sefer Zikaron le-Drohobycz, Broyslaw ve-ha-Seviva" (Memorial Book of Drohobycz, Boryslaw and Surrounding towns")

Druzhikivka (Druzhkovka)

Druzhkopol

Located in the Volhynia Guberniya

Dubie

http://genforum.genealogy.com/ukraine/messages/7474.html

http://www.kresy.co.uk/brody_villages.html

Dubno

1939 Jewish population (census) was 5315.  Almost all of the 12,000 Jews living in the city at the time of WW II, most were systematically murdered by the Germans.  At the end of the war, there were only 300 Jews left.

Dubno has a history of Jewish presents for over 400 years and was considered one of the most important Jewish communities in Eastern Europe.  It was also the birthplace of the 18th century preacher Jacob Kranz, better known as the Dubner Maggid.

Books  
             

"Shards of War: Fleeing to and from Uzbekistan"
Authored by Michael G. Kesler.  Mr. Kesler traces his flight from his family's home just after the German attack on Russia in late June 1941 which prompted the parents of Michael who was 16 years old, along with his sister, to flee eastward.  He traces the family's traveling experiences where they found safety in Uzbekistan.  He then documents his experiences of living in Uzbekistan and later when both move to the United States where Michael and his sister raised families.

Dubovo, M.

Dunaevtsy (Dunaivtsi)

Photos
A photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry'  http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html 

Dymytrov (Dimitrov)

Dzerzhynsk

Dzhankoy

Ekaterinapol - see Katerinapol

Ekaterinoslav

Elizabethgrad (Kirovohrad)

Pogrom
There was a pogrom here in 1905

Elisavetgrad

Energodar

Fakshtin

Records
There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives

Fastov (Fastiv)

Located 37 miles southwest of Kiev

Felshtin (Gvardeyskoye)

Felshtiner Landsleit
Newsletter of the Felshtin Society
http://www.west.net/~jazz/felshtin/biblio.html

Pogrom
Felshtin had a bloody pogrom of February 1919 and later a great famine and persecution until its destruction in the holocaust.

Feodosia (Feodosiya)

Founded by the Greeks on the Black Sea. 

Gadyach

Site of the tomb of Rabbi Shneur Zalman, the Alter Rebbe who was the founder of the Lubavitch Chassidic movement.

Galych - (Galich)

Gaspra

Gaysin

Books  
             

Gibany (Ghibanu)

In Russian, the letter that looks like "y" can be pronounced "u" and "h" can be a "g".  It is located about 75 miles southeast of Kiev.  For further information about this Moldavian shtetl, check out my Russian Empire page

Glinivce - (pronounced Hlinivce in Ukrainian)

Lies between Zhitomir and Berdichev and is also next to the town of Andrusivka.  It was the heart of the Pale of Settlements.

Glinyany

Yizkor Book
"Khurbn Glinyane" (The Tragic End of our Gliniany) and "Megiles Gline" (The Scroll of Gline")
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Golovanevsk - (Golowaniesk, Golowanesk, Golovanisk, Golowansk, Kolowanisky, Galvenski, Golwanesk,
                                 Golowamcik, Galawinski, Golwansk, Golowaniska, Golowanejsk, Galowensky, Galovanesky,
                                 Golwanick, Glowanck, Golowaniewsk, Holvanivsk)

Podolia region. Until 1918 it was part of the Russian Empire but had an Ukrainian name. A map spells it Holvanivsk but it was  apparently spelled Holovanivsk.  There was a mini pogrom in 1904.

Cemetery
JewishGen cemeteries project spells it Holovanevsk.

Golta

Located northwest of Odessa - which in 1920 together with it's two neighboring towns of Oliviopol and Bogopol was renamed as Pervomaysk. 

Gorky (City of ) (Nizhniy Novgorod)

Known in the past and again presently as Nizhniy Novgorod.

Gorlice, Poland

Gorlivka

A number of Gorlivka web sites (some in English)

Gorodek Jagiellonski

Gorodenka (G) (Horokenka)

Gorodenka (Galicia)
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Gorodenka/

Books  
             

"History of the Jews in the Bukowina,"
("Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina,")
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Bukowinabook/bukowina.html

Gorodishche

Located south of Kiev and near Shpola

Gorodnitsa (G)

Gorodok (Horodok, Grodek Jagiellonski) (G)

The city code  is 211549. It is about 30 km north of Vitebsk on the Vitebsk - Pskov (Russia) road and is northeast from Minsk, which is about 265 km over the shortest road; more like 300 if you take 'major' roads.  It is 35 km E of Bialystok.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Gorodok/

Maps

Gorokhov (Horchiv, Horchow)

"History of the Jews in the Bukowina"
("Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina")
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Bukowinabook/bukowina.html

Grebinki

Yizkor Book
"Translation of Aunt Sophie's Letter"
http://www.jewishgen.org//yizkor/translations.html

Grimaylov (G)

Gritsev

Located about eight miles from Labun

Gulaipole - (Gulyapole, Guljai pole, Gulyaipole, Gulaipole)

A market town and county seat had a Jewish presence.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Colonies_of_Ukraine/gulaipole.htm

Gurzuph

Gusyatin (G) - (Husiatyn) (Galicia)

History
A Brief History of the Jewish Community in Gusyatin, Ukraine
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/Gusyatin/Gusyhist.html

Gvardeyskoye (Felshtin)

See also Felshtin above. Newsletter of the Felshtin Society
http://www.west.net/~jazz/felshtin/

Halies (Halicz, Gallich) 

A major town in once Galicia where the name Gallich was originated from the town name of Halicz/Gallich, the capital of the medieval Rus Principality.  It is located less than 8 miles from Marinopol

Hliboka

Research
Contact the Chernivtsi Oblast Archives and registry offices for your research. The L'viv Historical Archives has virtually nothing for towns that were formerly in the Bukowina area.

Hlubichok

Horodenko (Gorodenko)

http://www.jewishgalicia.net/Gallery/Views%20of%20Horodenka.aspx

Hotin - (Khotyin, Chotin)

Hryniv - (Polish = Hrynio'w, Gryniv)

Located near Bobrka.  May also be spelled Gryniv. 

  Maps

www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/ia_find?screen+ia-map-form&link=ia-map-result&uid=u8          

Note: You can write a letter to the village council of Hryniv and ask them to contact your relatives, if any still reside there. There are some costs charged.

Located on the Zbruch River. Some current maps by various mapmakers spell it as Gusyatin.  This area was in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, prior to the partitioning of Poland.  It was in the Republic of Poland between the world wars
https://sites.google.com/site/familyxroads/husiatyn

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/suchostaw/sl_husiatyn_landsmanshaftn.html

 Iasin

A town in the Rachov district, on the train line connecting Kirghizia (Kirihaza). 

Illichivsk

Ivano-Frankivsk (G) (Stanisle, Stanislawow) (Galicia)

Map of Cemetery
There is more material available at this site including ARIM and Lists of Victims
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/ukraine/ivano-frankovsk.html

Census
A census of all inhabitants was taken in August 1939.  The original is in the Ivano Frankivsk oblast archives, but a microfilmed copy is available at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives.  It is about 40,000 pages and organized by street.  The finding air will tell you which roll of microfilm has which streets.  Routes to Roots Foundation reports that there were several 19th century censuses of Stanislawow that are in the Ivano Frankivsk Archives.

Holocaust
Susannah Juni created a web page for the Hebrew tables of contents and Martin Kessel constructed an easy to read format for the List of Victims culled from the Russian Commission which investigated war crimes.

  Maps

Ivano-Frankivsk City Maps Page
http://www.lemko.org/maps/cities/index.html

Photos
Photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry'  http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html

ShtetLinks
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/stanislawow/

Travel and Tourism
http://pages.prodigy.net/l.hodges/ukraine.htm

Travel Diary
http://brama.com/travel/clark/2ivano.html

Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/stanislawow-arim/stanislawow-arim.html

"Arim ve-Imahot be-Yisrael" - "Pinkas Hakehillot" (Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities - Poland Volume II Eastern Galicia, Yad Vashem Martyr's and Heroes' Remembrance Authority)

"List of Victims" (List of Citizens Murdered by the Nazis from the Documents of the Russian Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes) Cemetery List - list of inscriptions and map of Ivano-Frankivsk cemetery
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

http://www.JewishGen.org/JewishGen-erosity/YizkorTrans.html

Izluchistoye (Stalinskoye, Stalindorf)

There were close to 1,700 Jewish souls living here before WW II.  Most probably a Jewish agricultural settlement, as there were several in the Zaporozhe and Crimea regions of southern Ukraine.
http://www.maplandia.com/ukraine/dnipropetrovska/izluchistoye/

Izmail

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Izmail

http://www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/UK-arch-Ch1Gitelman.pdf

Izrailovka

Located 530 km to the west of Ekaterinoslav

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/colonies_of_ukraine/israelovka.htm

Izyaslav  (Iziaslav)

Located in the Khmel'nyts'ka Oblast.

Photos
A photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' 
http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html

Izyum

http://www.jewnet.ru/eng/orgs/?id=1481

Holocaust

http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/institute/killing_sites_catalog_details_full.asp?region=Kharkov

Jagielnica (G)

Justingrad - (see Sokolovka)

Kalinovka

ShtetLinks
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kalinovka/

Yizkor Book
A Memorial to the Jewish Community of Kalinovka) has updated material available
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Kal'nycja (Kalnica, Kalnica and Lisko and Kalnica ad Cisna where "ad" is Latin meaning near)

  Maps

Kalush (G) (Kalusz, Kalish, Kalisz, Kalusz Nowy)

South Southeast of L'vov.  It was once part of Austrian-dominated Poland and also Galicia. There is also a "Kalush" near Ivano-Frankivsk
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kalush/

Yizkor Books
"Sefer Kalish, 1964" is in Yiddish and/or Hebrew. There is also "The Kalish Book, 1968" in English

Kalyus (Kalius)

Located in the Khmelnytsky Oblast in the Novaya Ushitsa area.  It is located on the Dniester River

Kamen Kashirskiy (Kamen Kashyrsky)

http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=2274

Kamenets - (Kaminetz - Podolsky, Camanes, Kamyanets' Podilskiy, Kamenz, Kamenets-  Podolsk, Podolian Kamenets,
                           Kamianets 'Podils'kyi)

A relatively large town located in southwestern part of Ukraine. Marilyn and Arnold  Handleman traveled to this area in July,1994. It is a medieval fortress city and is the site of much archeological activity.  There is a real castle there along with a small Jewish community still in existence.  A fair number of Jews left the city because of Petliura's pogroms in the region and were spared the experience of the Einsatzgruppen that murdered most of the Podolsky Jewish population, along with thousands of transported Hungarian Jews from Budapest during WW II.  There is eye witness testimony about this tragedy in the transcripts from the Eichmann's trial.

The town is built on a high rocky bluff of the Smotrich, a left-hand tributary of the Dniester.  It is on the historical frontier of Ukraine and Bessarabia, opposite the castle of Khotin.  The town has changed hands numerous times in history and has been, among others, under Polish, Russian, Turks, Tartars, Moldavian and Mongol rule.  My mother-in-law, Minnie (Manya) Gross Smolkin emigrated from Kamenetz to Minneapolis, along with her sisters and brother, Nate Gross and their mother.

Archive
The State Archive of Khmelnytsky Oblast,
281900 Kamenets-Podolski,
Khmelnytska, vul. R. Liuksemburg 15a, Ukraine.  

City/State Archive
Plosha Polskiy Rinok Square,
14/16, ( located in the old town of Kamenets)
Kamianets-Podilsky
Khmeinitska oblast 32300 Ukraine

Photos
A photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry'
http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html

Research
Center of the Genealogical Information and Researches History of the Family,
252146, 22 Zhmerinskya Str., off 86.
Ukraine Kiev
Fax number is 0442773655
Director: A. Eremenko. 

There has been discussion about the Center, as being a private business operated by at least one employee of the State Archives.  The Archives not only hold records of the city, but also of the surrounding areas.  It is relatively easy to visit the city today.

Fond 226 holds records of the  Podolia State Chamber

Travel and Tourism
http://pages.prodigy.net/l.hodges/ukraine.htm

Kamenka (G)

Kamenopol

Yizkor Book
"Khurbn Jaryczow bay Lemberg: Sefer Zikaron le-Keshoshei Jaryczow y-Sevivoteha"
(Destruction of Jaryczow: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Jarczow and Surroundings Ukraine)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Kamionka Bugskay (Kamionka Strumilowa)

Located on the Bug (Buh in Ukrainian) river.  There were 3,850 Jews living in the town until 1939.   5,830 civilians were killed in the Second World War.
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/town/kamionka_strumi.htm

Kaniv  *

Kariukovke

This shtetl was known for its sugar factory owned by the well-known Jewish millionaire and philanthropist, Brodsky. An interesting story by Curt Leviant was printed in the December 2009 issue of San Diego Jewish Journal about his great great great grandfather's experience during
the Chanukah season of 1843.

Katerinapol (Ekaterinapol, Kalniboloto )

Located in the Kiev province and about 115 miles south of Kiev and was also referred to as Kalniboloto (the Yiddish shtetl name)

Landsmanshaftn
Most of the Landsmen left around the same time when the pogroms were threatening to kill everyone in the town. The Landsman formed a society in Brooklyn, NY in 1900 to help the families who settled in America.  The society is still active with 6 members.  It is called the Kalniblader Society.

Katyn

Kerch

Mourning the Jewish dead in Kerch

A city in southern Ukraine on Kerch Strait, a shallow waterway connecting the Black Sea with the Sea of Azov and bordered on the west by the Kerch Peninsula.  The city was founded by Greek colonists in the sixth century B.C. and eventually passed to Russia after the first Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774). Population: 168,000.

I found that my half brother, Aaron, his wife and 12 year old daughter Ida Margulis, were among the many Jews killed by the Nazis when they invaded this town in WW II.

Kharkov (Kharkiv, Harkiv)

The second largest city in Ukraine and the administrative center of the Kharkov Oblast.  It is located in the northeastern part of Ukraine, and is an industrial center.  

We visited and stayed for a few days in 1995.  There is quite a bit to see. The population as of 1989 was 1,611,000.  The total population of the Oblast in 1989 was 3,196,000.  South of Kharkov is the natural gas fields at Shebelinka. 

Kharkov Jewish Community
http://info.jpost.com/1999/Supplements/Charity/kharkov.html

Photos
See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html

Synagogue
Their is an ongoing attempt to restore the Great Kharkov Synagogue.  An American Jewish Family is helping pay for the work.  During the war, the synagogue was used as a sports stadium by the Germans.

Kharkov Great Synagogue

Interior of the Great Synagogue.  Shirley Margulis with the secretary of the shul.

Chief Rabbi is Moshe Moscowitz.  The building was built in 1910 and returned to the Jewish community in 1990 after being used as a sports hall.  My wife and I visited the synagogue and met some of the children attending classes along with the secretary of the synagogue.
http://www.isjm.org/jhr/IInos1-2/ukraine.htm

Travel and Tourism in Kharkov  
                                                                      
 Moskva Hotel built before the revolution of 1917

Khartsyzk 

Kherson - (Herson, Kerson)

Photos
See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' 
http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html

Khersones

Khmelnytsky (Khmel'nyts'kiy, Khmelnitskiy) (now Proskurov)

Located in Podolia Guberniya - previously known as Proskurow and located in the Khmelnytska Oblast. 

Photos
See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry'
http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html

Khodoriv

Khorostkov (G) (Chorostkow)

History
"History of the Jews in the Bukowina"
("Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina,")
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Bukowinabook/bukowina.html

Khodorov

Located between Kiev and Zhitomir was a prominent Jewish area before WW II

Khorostkov

Yizkor Book
"Sefer Chorostkow" (Chorostkow Book)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Khorostkov

The Table of Contents and Some Chapters from Sefer Chorostkow are available

Khotyn  

As of 2008, there are 10 Jews living in this town, one of them being a Jewish French professor. 

Khyriv

Kibliltch

Kiev (Kyiv) 

               
      Outside of Kiev Synagogue.                                Postcard View of 'The Gate of Kiev'
     Photo taken by Ted Margulis, August, 1994                  

Kyiv, a scenic city of close to 3 million people situated on the Dnipro River, is the bustling capital of Ukraine. Ancient Kievan Rus, which reached its greatest period of ascendancy during the 11th and 12th centuries, was a center of trade routes between the Baltic and the Mediterranean. The city of Kyiv and the power of Kievan Rus were destroyed in 1240 by Mongol invaders and the lands of Kievan Rus were divided into principalities located to the west and north: Galicia, Volhynia, Muscovy and later, Poland, Lithuania, and Russia. 

Once a powerful force on the European scene, Ukraine's fate in modern times has been decided in far-off capitals. As a result, modern Ukrainian history, for the most part, has been defined by foreign occupation. But after gaining the independence by Ukraine in 1991 it significantly restored it's political and economic weight.
http://www.uazone.net/Ukraine_toc.html

http://www.allkiev.kiev.ua/geogr_e.htm

Archives
Has the former Russian records of the Ukraine area.

Maps

Kiev City Maps Page
http://www.lemko.org/maps/cities/index.html

Kiev Guberniya Map
Note that the Kiev Guberniya was broken up into several different Regions when the Soviets took over.
http://www.angelfire.com/or/yizkor/gubmaps.html

Also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry'  http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html 

Synagogue
Kiev Brodsky Synagogue
This is the largest in Ukraine's capital city.
http://www.isjm.org/jhr/IInos1-2/ukraine.htm

Kiev Telephone Book

Search for free
http://rit.minsk.by/cgi-bin/mphones.pl

Kiev City Guide
http://www.inyourpocket.com/ukraine/kyiv/en/

Kiev Travel and Tourism
http://pages.prodigy.net/l.hodges/ukraine.htm

Kirovohrad (Kirovograd)

Located in the Kirovohradska Oblast. 

Kishinev (Chisinau)

Located on the Byk river, was heavily damaged in the Russo-Turkish War in 1788.  It was ceded to Russia in 1812.  After WW I, it became part of Romania and in 1940 was passed to the Soviet Union.
http://www.genexchange.com

Pogrom
An almost complete list of the victims of the 1903 Easter Kishinev Pogrom is available at the Kishinev ShtetLinks page
http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetLinks/kishinev/PogromVictims1903.htm

Kitsman (Kicman)

Klebanov Volost

http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/belarus/bel129.html

Klichkovich - (Klichkovichi, Kliczkowice)

Village is known nowadays as Klichkovichi located at 51o09' 24o29'. It is  SW of Kovel and near Turiysk. Village or rather small agriculture colony was known in the interwar Poland as Kliczkowice.

P. KAC (KATZ),
J MILSZTEJN (MILSTEIN)
S. GOLFEDER
M.ZEGARMISTER
Ch. GURWIC (GURWITZ)

The above information was posted by Alexander Sharon

Klyuvintsy

Kobelyaki

Located in the Poltava oblast and is 186 miles east south east of Kiev.

Koktebel

Kolomyia (G)  (Kolomea, Kolomey, Kolomya)

Note that there are several hundred Jews living in the communities of Stanisiawow  and the Rabbi name is Moshe Leib Kolesnik, a local man, trained by Chabad in Moscow.  He also helps the smaller Jewish communities of Kolomyia and Buczacz. 

Archives
L'viv and Ivano-Frankivsk Archives 
holds numerous civil records from Kolomyya (modern spelling). 

Books  
             

"Emergence of Genocide in Galicia and Resettlement Transports to Belzec Extermination Camp"

"Extermination of the Jews of Kolomyia and District"

Komarno

Located southwest of L'viv.
http://www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/ia_free?width=500&height=300&level=5&lat=496333&lng=237000

Komsomolsk

Konotop

Kopivka

A small shtetl, actually a dorf, located near Nimirov, Vinitsa District. Though it was small, one of the Jewish villagers owned two Torahs and held services in his house.

Kopychintsy (G)

Once located in Galicia
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/kopychintsy/kopychintsy.htm

Korets

Located 62 km east of Rovno.

Yizkor Book

Korolowka

"For anyone interested in Korolowka in Ukraine, there is a fascinating article about 38 people who lived in caves during WWII.  The article is in Adventure magazine, a publication of the National Geographic (June/July 2004). The focus is on the Stermers and the Wexlers but others mentioned were from the Blitzer, Katz and Dodyk families. 

To fit in with the magazine, there is a lot of information about the caves themselves, but the dramatic story of those who lived through those awful days comes through very clearly.  The author interviewed some of the survivors, who described the help they received from a couple of Ukrainians and the ordeals of being discovered on several occasions.  Some of the 38 individuals lost their lives during these attacks by Nazis.  Of the 14,000 Jews who lived in the region, not quite 300 survived.   Some of the cave survivors were actually killed after the war by local Ukrainians.  From a posting by Suzan Wynne
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0406/excerpt4.html

Korosten

Korostyshev

Books  
             

"Some Archival Sources for Ukrainian- Jewish Genealogy" 
There are about four pages of Jewish Vital Records in the book
http://www.avotaynu.com/ 

Korsyn (Korsun Shevchenkovskiy, or, in Ukrainian, Korsun Shevchenkivskiy)

Located in Kiev Guberniya

Kortelisy

Koshar (Kamin-Kashyrsky)

Today it is known as Kamin-Kashyrsky and is located in the center of the Volynskiy region.  It is mentioned in this web site
http://www.ukar.org/shest01.shtml

Koshevato

Located in the Tarascha district, Kiev region

Kosov (Kosiv) (G)

Kostyantynivka

Kovel - (Kowel, Kowle, Kovla )

Yizkor Book
"Pinkas Kowel" (Memorial Book of Kowel) 
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html:

Kozeletz

Located near Chernigov

Kozova (Kozowa)

A county seat (Raion) and part of oblast Ternopil in western Ukraine.  It was in Poland until September, 1939 and in the Galician part of Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1772 until 1918.

Krakovets

Located almost exactly on the current Ukraine-Poland border and 40 miles west of L'viv.

Kramators'k

A number of Kramators'k web sites (some in English)

Krasilov (Kresilov)

Medvedovka, Zaslav, Volhynia 

Krasnoarmiysk

Krasnodon

Krasnyi Luch

Krasnyye Okny (Krasi Okny, Okne, Okny (Yiddish)

There were about 2000 Jews in 1939. It is located in Odesskaya at 47-32 29-27, 150 km from Odessa

Kremenets (Krementz)

The city has about 25,000 inhabitants with about 25 Jews. The Coordinator for the Jewish community is Larisa Klyuch. Nearby towns include:
Brody, Pochayev and Yampol. There are other towns with similar names located in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovak Republic, Macedonia, Russia, Serbia and in Ukraine.

Cemetery  
"From Ronald Doctors web site: "Over a rise in the hill is the Jewish cemetery. It is huge. It stretches from near the base of the hill in the valley close to town, all the way up to the top, and this is steep terrain. The brush is more overgrown than I thought it would be. My plan to take a lot of pictures of individual tombstones will not work. It would be a helter -skelter approach, and I don’t wan t to waste time doing that Ken gets a number of good photos of the terrain and of individual Matzevot though. We walk through the cemetery. Alex says he never has seen one this extensive...It ’s starting to get dark, so we head back down the hill to the car . Alex gingerly proceeds down the “ road”.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~orjgs/win22.PDF

Jan Jagielski, Director of History and Documentation at the Lauder Institute in Warsaw,  has an amazing amount of information in his head as well as in his office, and he is very well organized. He has a book that has photos of tombstones in the Kremenets cemetery, plus other photos of the town. 

Holocaust
On September 9, 1942, armed resistance occurred during the liquidation of the Kremenets ghetto and 193 Soviet POWs were gassed in the Neuengamme camp near Hamburg.

Research
A project is translating the 10,000 pages of microfilmed records which contain about 15,000 records.  The films cover Jewish births, marriage, divorce and death records for the period 1870 to 1907.  Contact Sheree Roth

There are some Aliyah records for people from Kremenets. (Those are records concerning people who emigrated from Kremenets to Israel (then Palestine) mostly in the 1929-1939 period). The Lauder Foundation has records of a handful of Kremenets child survivors (now no longer children, of course) who at one time or another were seeking relatives after the Shoah. For privacy reasons only their surnames are available. There are Kremenets Kahal (Jewish self-government) records for the mid 1700's. They are at the Archives of Ancient Acts in Warsaw.

Kremenchuk

A number of Kremenchuk web sites (some in English)

Photos
Photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' 
http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html

Krivoluka

Krivoy Rog

Krukenitse (Polish Krukienice, Krukenicja)

Northwest of the Drogobych Oblast, and is 13 miles north northwest of Sambor (Sambir).  In 1939 it had a population over 500.  Today, it is located in the L'viv oblast.

Krym

Located on the Krym peninsula and south of Ukraine.  It is by the Azov and Black Seas. The Administrative Center is Simferopol and it is known as the  Autonomous Republic of Krym   Government offices are at
13, Kirova Ave.
Simferopol, 333005
Phone (0652) 25 1275 Fax: (06522) 6414

Kryvyi Rih - (Krivij Rig, Kryvyy Rih)

A number of Kryvyi Rih web sites (some in English)

Krzemieniec

Ksaverov (Ksaveriv)

Located near road P94 Narodichi-Malin, 25 miles south of Narodiche near the town of Nedashki

Kukizov

Yizkor Book
"Khurbn Jaryczow bay Lemberg; Sefer Zikaron le-Keshoshei Jaryczow y-Sevivoteha"
(Destruction of Jaryczow Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Jarczow and Surroundings Ukraine)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Kupel

186.5 miles west southwest of Kiev and located in the Khmelnytska oblast

Kursk

A city and an Oblast  and is the administrative center for the area.  It is located in western Ukraine - about 120 miles north of Kharkov. In 1989 it had a population of 424,000 in the city. 

The Kursk Oblast  was established in 1934 and its boundaries are the Orel Oblast on the north, the Voronezh Oblast on the east, the Belgorod Oblast on the south and the Sumy and Bryansk Oblasts on the west.  This area is a very important source for refining sugar from the vast fields of sugar beets.  The largest town are Kursk, Lgov, Oboyan, Fatezh.  The Oblast, in 1989 had a population of 1,339,000.

Kushmir

Located in Podila

Kuty

Once in Galicia and located 32 km (about 20 miles) west southwest of Chernovitz, in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.  Close by to the north is Kosov and Kolomyia is north slightly west of Kuty (about 20 miles).  Kuty is located on the Cheremoch river.
http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Places/Kuty/

Research
There are a few land records for the town that are located in the L'viv Archives.  They date from 1795 to 1858/  There are also land records for Stara Kuty that are in the Kosov area, and these records are also in the same archives.  In 1931, Kuty had 5,393 residents.  

Kuzmin

Research
There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives

Kyiv - see Kiev

Labun (Lubin is Yiddish name) (See Yurovshchina)

A small village south of Polonnoye. According to the JewishGen Communities Database, Labun is there former name of the town now called Yurovshchina.  Before WW I, Labun was in the Zaslav district (Uyezd), Volhynia Guberniya. Russian Empire.  Between the World Wars, Labun was in Kamenets-Podolski district, Ukraine SSR. Soviet Union.  Today it is in Khmel'nyts'kyi Oblast, Ukraine.
www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp

Was called Chervonoye during the Soviet-era.

Lanchin

Lanovtse

Once in Galicia
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/SuchostavRegion/sl_lanowce.htm

Lanowiec (G) (Lanovtse, Lanowitz, Lanovitsy, Volhynia, Ukraine)

Lavriv (Lawrow)

  Maps

Lebedintsy (Lebeda)

Letichev District (Podolia) Letichev Uyezd    (147.9 miles WSW of Kiev) 8 Shtetls:

It was the home of the Baal Shem Tov and the cradle of the Hassidic movement. See the book "The Road from Letichev" for a detailed description of synagogues, details on the Jewish agricultural colony and the 1648 Khmelnytsky massacres, as well as the pogroms of 1882, 1903-7 and 1919-21. there are records also available in the Ukrainian Archives

Towns in Ukraine within the Letichev District:
Derazhnia, Letichev, Medzhibozh, Mikhalpol (Mikhampol, Mikhalovka), Staro Zakrevsky Meidan, Volkovintsy, Zinkov, Butsnevtsy (Butsni), Snitkov (Snitovka)

Liatychiv (Latyczow) (Starostwo)

The Jewish population, or Kehila, in this, the Czartoryski Territories in 1776, obtained from Appendix I of the book was 652
"The Lords' Jews, Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 18th Century"
Authored by M. J. Rosman

Litin

32 kilometers  west northwest of Vinnitsa and had a pre-WWII Jewish population of 2,487.  Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteer states that in 1928 Litin had a population of 8,382. The town was known for sawmilling and metalworking.

Yizkor Book
(A Memorial to the Jewish Community of Litin) has updated material available
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Lozova

Lubarya

Located in Novogradvolynsky District, Volynsky Region

Lubny (Lubin, Luben, Lovyn)

Once in Poltava Guberniya.  It is located 113 miles (183 km) ESE of Kyiv. Conflicting information indicates that the town of "Lubin" is not Lubny, but rather may be Yurovshchina.

Research
Referenced by an article entitled "Using Landsmanshaft Burial Plots to Discover and Confirm the Location of a Family Shtetl", authored by Emily H. Garber and appearing in the Spring 2011 issue of Avotaynu.

Luboml

Lugans'k (Luhansk)

A number of L'viv web sites (some in English)

See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' 
http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html

Lujeni

Located in the Chernivtsi Oblast in the north Bukovina area and near the Prut river.  In 1941 it had a population of 2,023.

Lukov (Maciejow)

http://www.jtasgal.dabsol.co.uk/MACIEJOW/Index.htm

Lutsk

Located in the Volynska Oblast.

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

L'viv (L'vov, Lwów, Lemberg, Leopol, Lvov)

Located forty-five miles from the Polish border, it is considered the "cradle of the resurgent and sometimes xenophobic Ukrainian nationalism".  It is a well preserved example of Austro-Hungarian Baroque, a smaller Prague. Once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and then Poland - between the wars -- it became part of the Soviet Union in 1939.  When WW II began, Ukraine's Jewish population numbered some 1.5 million, with 200,000 in Lvov.  It is the gem of the Ukrainian and European culture - a real open space museum.  The city was originally established as a fortress town, because of its geographical location and natural resources. It was founded in 1256 by Prince Danylo of Galicia, who named the city after his eldest son Lev. 

The principality of Galicia - located in what is today western Ukraine - was originally ruled by the Romanovych line of princes, direct descendants of the Kievan Rus rulers.  However, it wasn't long before the important trading route began successively changing hands as armies battled over its territory.  Lviv was renamed as often as it was retaken.  Leopolis, Lember, Lwow Lvov, and now Lviv. The longest rulers were the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Poland

It is believed, according to Dan Fellner's article, that the early Jews arrived from Byzantium and Asia Mino (Turkey) and neighboring lands. Later (about 100 years later) Jews fled Germany because of the plague and persecutions.  By the end of the 14th century, L'vov had two Jewish settlements.  One was inside the walled city and other outside the gates.  Each had their own synagogues and mikvahs, but shared a cemetery.

When it was known as Lemberg, it had been a center of Jewish life to rival Vilnius and Warsaw.  The oldest synagogue in the Ukraine, destroyed by the Nazis in 1942, was located across from the Golden Rose restaurant.

L'viv suffered relatively little damage during WW II.  The result is an Old Town, anchored by cobblestoned Rynok Square featuring more than 40 buildings in a variety of architectural styles.  It bears a resemblance to Florence, Italy.

The city has a general population of some nine hundred thousand people of which there are about five or six thousand Jews today.  There is a Jewish newspaper which appears in Ukrainian and Yiddish, and is published by Boris Dorfman who also gives tours of Jewish sites in L'viv. Meilech Shoichet, a resident, is involved in the Jewish cemetery restoration. 

Archives
Main Archives, Administration of Ukraine
The Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine, City of L'viv (TsDIA-L'viv),
Soborna Square 3-a
L'viv, 290000, Ukraine. 
Phone/Fax 011 380 322 72 35 08
(Phone Only: 011 380 322 72 30 63)

The Central State Historical Archive in L'viv
Has some historical Manukiv and Orkhovychi Vital Statistic Records. Drill down through culture, Lemkos and genealogy.  
http://www.infoukes.com/

Books  
             
               
     "In The Sewers of Lvov: A Heroic Story of Survival From the Holocaust"
     Authored by Robert Marshall and published by Scribner - chronicles the plight of 20 Jews who survived
     by hiding for more than a year in the city's sewer system.

"List of Lwów Holocaust Victims, Compiled List"
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html     

"L'viv Sightseeing Guide"
A nicely organized publication with maps, including separate sections dealing with museums and cemeteries.
ISBN 966 7022 09 9

"Lwów Volume: Part I From The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora, Jerusalem"
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/thesis.htm

"My Private War" 
Authored by Jacob Gerstenfeld-Maltie. This book tells the story of the survival of a man from Lvov (Lemberg) during the war. It supplies very interesting insights into life in Lemberg during that time.  May be ordered from Amazon.com 

"Smoke in the Sand: Jews of Lvov in the War Years, 1939-1944"
Authored by Eliah Yones and published by Gefen.  This book details the role of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) which provided work for as many as 5,000 people in the ghetto at one time.

"The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness"
Authored by Simon Wiesenthal and published by Schocken.

'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' 
http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html 

Cemetery
Lychakivsky Cemetery
bears witness to the city's unique history.  German, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian inscriptions can be found engraved on the crumbling tombstones and imposing mausoleums that stand amid entangled trees and shrubs.

Galician Forced Laborers from L'vov
Data on 1,110 workers, from a collection of the L'viv State Archives. Holocaust

Ghetto

The Lvov ghetto, shown here in the spring of 1942, was established in late 1941 with 106,000 people. By May of 1942, only 84,000 residents were left. Photo credit: Meczenstwo Walka, Zaglada Zydów Polsce 1939-1945. Poland. No. 107.

http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/lvov%20ghetto.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemberg_Ghetto

http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/lvov.html

Hassidic Movement
L'vov became the center of the Hasidic movement towards the end of the 18th century.

Holocaust
When WW II began, the Jewish population swelled to more than 200,000 as refugees poured in from German occupied Poland. The Germans captured the city in June 1941and more than 6,000 Jews were killed immediately in pogroms carried out by the local population, fueled by rumors that Jews had participated in the execution of Ukrainian political prisoners. In November 1941, there was a Jewish ghetto which eventually held more than 100,000.  Shortly thereafter, the Germans began emptying the ghetto and sending the Jewish population to Belzec death camp (60 miles north of L'vov) and thousands more to the Janówska labor camp (located in the northern part of the city) where most were shot by firing squads.  The Ghetto was liquidated in June 1943.  When the Russians recaptured L'vov in July 1944, there were only a few hundred Jews remaining to tell the story. After WW II, some 30,000 Jews returned, but that number has been since reduced to about 6,000 as many chose to emigrate to Israel, Germany and America.

There remains the ruins of the main Synagogue and Golden Rose Synagogue, the Pas house, Hasidic school and Synagogue, former hospital founded by Dr. Rappaport, Yad Harusym building, hose of Sholom Aleichem, monument of the victims of the Jewish Ghetto, Yaniv cemetery and Yaniv concentration camp.

Andrei Sheptytsky was the head of the Greek Catholic Church until his death in 1944.  This bearded grandfatherly man was most famous for how he opposed SS leader Heinrich Himmler during WW II, by writing him a hostile letter condemning the Nazi persecution of Jews in Ukraine.  Only by divine intervention, say many Ukrainians, did Sheptytsky go unpunished, and the Jews hidden in his monasteries - including the Rabbi of Lviv - went undiscovered.

L'viv Information
http://www.brama.com/

  Maps

L'viv City Maps
http://www.lemko.org/maps/cities/index.html

http://www.newportnewslib.org:8080/lib/item;jsessionid=0C6AF4B4B18254F9EE4
EFD8457CF7675?id=229002

Museums
Museum of the History of Religions
Located at 1 Muzeina Street, displays about 50 Judaica items.  Thousands more that are not displayed and may never be, are stored in other L'vov museums.

Photo Gallery
http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetLinks/lviv/links.html

Pogroms
One occurred in 1918 leaving 70 Jews dead.

The Lwów Archives indicated that they have records for 1829, 1831-50 and 1896.

ShtetLinks
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Lviv/Lviv.html

Synagogues
The only active synagogue in the 21st century is Bais Aron V'Yisroel located at
4 Brothers Miknovski Street;
380 322 383 804.
Completed in 1931, the L'viv synagogue is in rather good condition though the original artwork on the walls and ceilings need work.

A Reform temple was opened in 1910 when the Jewish population was 57,000. L'vov eventually returned to Poland between the world wars and by 1939, it had a Jewish population of 110,000  one third of Lvov's total population.

There were two other prominent synagogues that did not survive the Holocaust.  In the Old Market Square near where the city was founded, there is a plaque marking the location of what was once the largest Reform synagogue in Galicia.  Several blocks away, near an outdoor market at the corner of Sanska and Vesela Streets, in the site of the former Hasidic Grand Synagogue, originally built in the 17th century.

Travel and  Tourism
There is a saying in Lviv that goes like this: "East Meets West"  And it's true.  You can roam the narrow cobblestone streets, gaze in awe at the baroque domes, renaissance steeples and red terra-cotta roofs dotting the horizon.  Such a city cannot be in the Soviet Union.  Lviv' s heart, it is said, always remained in Europe.  It never left the continent that it was a part of for most of its turbulent history.  Missing, if you look over the city from one of the foothills of the Carpathian mountains, are the broad boulevards of Tsarist Russia and the imposing gargantuan architecture of the Soviet regime.  In its place are narrow cobbled lanes winding through a curious mix of classic and romantic architecture.  Lviv evokes images of Prague or Salzburg, which may surprise a few westerners, but is old news for its native residents.

http://pages.prodigy.net/l.hodges/ukraine.htm

White Page Telephone Book

Simon Wiesenthal was living in L'vov with his wife when the Nazis invaded in 1941.  They were imprisoned in Janówska, from which Wiesenthal escaped in 1943 and fought with the partisans before being recaptured in 1944.  Two years after being liberated from the Mauthausen concentration camp, he helped establish the Jewish Documentation Center in Austria.

Lvovo (Lvowo)

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/lvovo/

Lypca (Lipche, Lipka)

Lysychansk

Lyubar

Lyubech

M. Stone Ford

Machifka

Located near Berdichev

Machliniec (Polish spelling for Makhlynets')

A small shtetl that still exists.  To obtain residence records, contact the registry office for Maklynets' located in Stryi.  Vital records are in several places including possibly in Warsaw if your ancestors were Jews or Roman Catholic; if Evangelical, records may be found in Leipzig.

Makiivka

There is a Makiivka web site

Mal'chychi (Malczyce)

Now in Horodok Raion west of L'viv.  Malczyce was in Austria's Grodek Jagiellon Administrative District and Janow Judicial District.

Malin

Located 50 miles south of Narodiche, road P94, and 8 miles south from the main road A225 Korosten-Kyiv

Manukiv (Makuniow)

Maps

A map is available. Information maybe available at the Przemysl Archives. 
http://www.mapquest.com

Marganets

Marinopol (Mariajmpole, Maryampol)

Once located  in the Galicia Province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  This used to be a small town of close to one thousand residents with about 250 pre WW II Jewish souls.

The town is currently known as Marinopol and between WW I and WW II, it was located in Poland's Stanislawow Province, and again, currently Stanislawow Province has changed it's name to Ivano-Franko(i)vsk.

Mariupol

A number of Mariupol web sites (some in English)

Masandra

Mayuniche

Medvedovka

Volhynia Guberniya

Medzhibozh (Medzhybizh, Medzibozh)

The shtetl where the Baal Shem Tov is buried.  West of Breslov and also along the Bug River. There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives.  The Jewish population, or Kehila, in this, the Czartoryski Territories in 1776, obtained from Appendix I of the book
"The Lords' Jews, Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 18th Century"
Authored by M. J. Rosman amounted to 2,039.

Books  
             

Photos
A photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' 
http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html 

Meidan

Mejirichi

There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives

Melitopol

A Melitopol web site is located at

Melnitsah (Melnitza, Melnitsas in Yiddish and Melnitsah)

Located in the Tarnopol Oblast.

Yizkor Book
"Melnitza Survivors in Israel and Diaspora" The Editor is Joshua Liot, and published in Tel Aviv in 1994 and includes illustrations, maps in Hebrew, Yiddish and English.

Mena

Mezhyrov

Located near Vinnitsa 

Mezirich

Miaskovka - (Myaskofka)

Mikhalpol (Mikhampol, Mikhalovka)

Books  
             

Mikolaiow (Mikolayev, now Nikolayev)

Located in Podolia Guberniya

Daniel Kazez has a link to his Oberman (Guberman)  and Lis (Liss) families from this town
guberman-lis.html

Mikulince

Yizkor Book
"Mikulince; Sefer Yizkor" (Mikulince Yizkor Book: List of Holocaust Victims)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Mikulintsy (Mikulińce) (G)

Yizkor Book
"History of the Jews in the Bukowina," ("Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina,")
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Bukowinabook/bukowina.html

Minkovtsy (Minkovitz)

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/minkovtsy/

Mogilev Podolski - (Mohyliv-Podil's'kyi)

Located in the southwestern Ukraine in the Podolia Guberniya.  It is several hundred miles from Mogilev in Belarus.  This town is located on the Dniester River, just across the river from Moldova (formerly Bessarabia).

Photo
A photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' 
http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html 

Research
The telephone code is 04337 and the Director's number for the telephone service is 23 444

Molodia (Melodiya)

Located in the Chernivtsi Oblast.  Reports indicate that the Archive is not very cooperative in helping one research and they suggest contacting the nearest Ukrainian Consulate and have them help you fill out a for known as AHKETA (pronounced Anketa), to facilitate the acquisition of information from ZAHS (RAGAS).  The AHKETA needs to be completed in Ukrainian language.

http://www.bukovinasociety.org/map1910.html

Mollova Podolia

No information available at this time

Monastyriska (G) (Monastrische, Monastyrka)

http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/LOC/ds135-r93locbib.html

http://www.jewishinstitute.org.pl/en/gminy/miasto/951.html

Morochne

Located in Rivenska Oblast.

Mukacheve (Mukachevo, Mukacsevo, Munkacs)

Located in Zakarpatskaya Oblast.