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Ukrainian              
Cities
and Shtetls
  

  


 


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During Soviet days, Ukrainian cities carried Russian names, and since the Russian language doesn't have an "H" in the alphabet, a "G" was used in its place.                                                 

Remember that the 1941 modern name of the shtetl of your inquiry may or may not be the same as the post WW II modern name.  Also note, that with the collapse of the Soviet regime in the 1990s, some towns with Bolshevized names have reverted to their historical names.

The Jews of Ukraine make up the fourth largest Jewish Community in the world, and are mainly concentrated in Kiev (110,000), Dniepropetrovsk (60,000), Kharkov (45,000) and Odessa (45,000).  Jews also live in many of the smaller towns.  Western Ukraine, however, has only a small remnant of its former Jewish population, with L'viv and Chernivtsi each having only about 6,000 Jews.  The majority of Jews in present-day Ukraine are native Russian/Ukrainian speakers, and only some of the elderly speak Yiddish as their mother tongue (in 1926, 76.1% claimed Yiddish as their mother tongue).  The average age is close to 45.

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


  Books

Most books, CDs and other materials that may be useful in your research of your Jewish roots, can be ordered through my link to Amazon.com by clicking here > Jewish Genealogy 

"A Historical Atlas" - authored by Paul Robert Magocsi, with maps prepared by Geoffrey J. Matthews and published by University of Toronto Press in 1985.  The book is written in English and shows beautifully how Ukraine has changed over the years -- demographics, boundaries, language, surrounding political units, etc.
http://www.city.sumy.ua/history/book.html

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


"Every Day Remembrance Day" - authored by Simon Wiesenthal and published by Henry Holt in 1986.  There is a place name index to trace the fate of Jews (not by family names) of a given town.  ISBN 0-8050-0098-4


"Spisok Naselennikh Mest Kienskoy Gubernii") The List of Shtetls of Kiev Gubernia with Index.  Available in some major libraries in the US


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/


Maps 

Art Source International offers antique and prints of maps and globes at Art Source International

The regions of Ukraine, in alphabetical order can be found at http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/index/Ukraine.html 

Guberniyas - Russian for Province or county and was used by the Imperial Russian Government as the term for its major administrative units. 

Guberniyas are 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.

Localities of Ukraine - a site that lists most of the Shtetls, towns and cities in English, in KOI-8 Cyrillic, and the name of the oblast (district) and a map identification.  
http://www.lemko.org/roots.html
     

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

Two to four Volosts formed a Uchastok (section) which were overseen by 'nacha l'niks' (managers).  

Raion - Similar to a Province, was used during the Soviet period.  Oblasts are divided into Raions. For a list of oblasts
http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/   

A complete map of all of the Oblasts and Regions of Ukraine http://www.freenet.kiev.ua/ISD/ABOUTUKR/ukroblst.htm  and a detail map of that area.  In English.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ukrwgw/oblastclickmap.html  

Povit - Ukrainian word for an administrative district/county similar in size to a township / County / district

Selo - Ukrainian word for village

Another site is JewishGen's ShtetLinks site listing 200 or more Shtetls at www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/  

Phone Codes - Ex USSR Phone Codes for Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Byelorussia, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Uzbekistan - you not only will see the phone code for each town (loads slowly) but also the proper spelling of the town name
http://phonecodes.narod.ru/N/N.htm 

 


Cities, Villages and Shtetls   continued

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"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

Note: The shtetls and cities listed below include towns formerly in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia and are marked with "(G)".  Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

To find where records can be found, right click Archives Database, then Search Database.  Activate Soundex and type in your ancestral town names.
http://www.rtrfoundation.org/Archdta1.html


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.


Alchevsk - A number of Alchevsk web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Alupka
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Alushta
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Anapol - there are records available in the Ukrainian Archives


Antratsyt
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Artasuv - "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 - A number of Artemivsk web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Bachkurino - in Podolia Oblast near the border with Kiev Guberniya.


Bakhchysaray -
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Balta - a small town 200 km from Odessa.  The population is about 20 to 30,000.  The town consisted of 2 separate parts: Balta (Ottoman Empire) and Jusefgrod (Polish territory).  An excellent website, with photos, is located at www.geocities.com/baltatown/show.html


Banilow - "Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina"  http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Bukowinabook/bukowina.html 


Bar - located now in Horodok Raion, west of L'viv. This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock
http://home.earthlink.net/~dchapin/ 


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 and that there is a memorial (Yizkor) book for the town.


Belaya Tserkov - located south of Kiev


Belgorod-Dnestrovsky  (Bilgorod-Dnistrovskiy) - http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


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


                  

                  Berdechev Cemetery where my half brother Moshe is buried.  This is a 'mixed'
             cemetery of both Jews and Gentiles.

Berdichev (Berdychiv, Berdichiv, Berdiciv, Berdychiv) - 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

I visited this small city and was unimpressed, though I recently learned that this was the site of the first major massacre conducted by the Nazis after entering Ukraine.  I found my half brother's grave in the community cemetery in this town.

There is a very interesting book entitled "The Bones of Berdichev" which goes into great detail about this larger town. For additional information contact  mweiner@routestoroots.com  There is a Berdechev List Manager, Jeanne Gold who monitors a list at
http://www.digging4roots.com
 

A brief, imagined and unflattering description of Berdechev Jews is at http://www.sholom-aleichem.org/why_jews_need2.htm/ 

Check out the Berdichev-D Digest.  Send an email to BERDICHEV-L@rootsweb.com 

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 is at
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."

The war crimes trial files from the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. concerning Engelbert Kreuzer, who was involved in the massacre of 1,000 Jews in Berdechev in 1941.  He was tried in a German court in 1970/71 and sentenced to seven years for his role in the massacres of many Ukrainian Jewish communities.  The files contain 10 pages in German containing information on the atrocities in Berdechev. Paul W. Ginsburg, Webmaster of the Sudilkov On-line Landsmanshaft site offers to mail copies of these 10 pages to anyone who can translate German and disseminate to your group.
http://www.sudilkov.com

An Index of 280 Jewish Persons mentioned in "The Town of Berdechev" which was edited by Baruch Kharu (Krupnick) in Tel Aviv in 1951 and indexed by Yael Driver.  Contact Yael at drivery@netcomuk.co.uk for a copy of the list.

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

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

A Berdichev web site is located at
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.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

"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. The author of this book was Pinhas of Dinovitz.


Berdyansk (Berdiansk, Berdyansi'k) - There is a Holocaust Memorial outside of the town.  A  web site is located at
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Colonies_of_
Ukraine/berdyansk.htm

See also a photo gallery entitled '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).

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

Additional information available at
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 

"Brezezany, Narajow ve-ha-Seviva; Toldot Kehillot she-Nehrevu" (Brzezany Memorial Book) 
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

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

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.  

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


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

In "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) 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 - A number of Bila Tserkva web sites (some in English) are located at
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Bobrka (G) - (Bibrka, Bobree)  information can be found at http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bobrka/default.hm 

A Yizkor Book"Le-Zeykher Kehillot Bobrka u-Benoteha" (Boiberke Memorial Book)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html 

Contact is Beverly Shulster bbevy@012.net.il  Beverly has a picture postcard entitled "Rynek w Bobree" and a picture of the local market in the town where her father was born.

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


Boguslav (Boslov) - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html
 
http://www.channel1.com/users/mtobin/boguslav/boguslav.html


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

Additional information at
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 

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


Bolekhiv (G) (Bolechov, Bolechow, Bolekhov, Bolekhev) - this is a shtetl that is close to Ivano Frankivsk (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.  

This web page offers Photos, Maps, a story of a trip to the shtetl and more research information.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bolekhov/index.htm

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bolekhov/res_sum.html
 
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bolekhov/

www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf 

The Mormon Family History Library (FHL) has microfilmed records of this town - some as far back as 1776.  You may want to check the Roman Catholic Parish Records since sometimes Jewish Vital records are co-mingled with Parish Records.  A fund raising project has been initiated to translate the Yizkor Book for this shtetl
http://www.JewishGen.org/JewishGen-erosity/YizkorTrans.html 

"Sefer ha-Zikaron le-Kedoshei Bolechow" (Memorial Book of the Martyrs of Bolechow)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html 

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

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


Bolshovtsy"List of Soviet Citizens Shot By German-Fascist Occupants and their Confederates of Bolshowetsky Raion, Stanislau Oblast" - http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf 


Bolszowce - 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. 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

There is a Jewish cemetery in existence for the past 200 years.  More information about the cemetery can be obtained from William Fern Whfern@aol.com  A Jew, Abraham Schreiner, who owned land in the area, discovered a "greasy, tarry secretion" known as ozokerite and which later made the area well-known for its crude oil production.

Currently being indexed by JRI-Poland are Birth records from 1878-1889 and 1894-1899 and Deaths from 1878-1899.   Included in the Boryslaw records are records for Dolhe, Kropiwinik Nowy, Kropiwinik Stary, Lastowki, Majdan, Mraznica, Rybnik, Schodnica, Tustanowice and WolankaYizkor Book - "Tys'mienica Nadai Plynie" (As the Tys'mienica Flows) translation is available. Contact is Laurel White.
http://www.jewishgen.org//yizkor/translations.html 

Additional information at
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html
 
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Drohobycz/dro171.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Drohobycz/Drogobych.html 

Regional Special Interest The Town Leader is Alexander Sharon  or Mark Halpern, AGAD Archive Coordinator JRI-Poland willie46@aol.com  Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html  


Borshchiv (G) (Borschev, Borszczo'w) - is 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.

There is a Yizkor Book for this shtetl
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

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


http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Borshchovichi - "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 - 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 -
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html


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

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


Bosivka (Bosovka - 106.3 miles south southwest of Kiev


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 marjorie.rosenfeld@cwix.com is working on 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

"Ner Tamid: Yizkor le Brody" - An Eternal Light: Brody in Memoriam - http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Photographs - the Brody (Ukraine) Yizkor Book website hosted by JewishGen has added some photographs to their site.   The photographs were obtained from Records Administration (NARA) cartographic collection of the Defense Intelligence Agency Record 373 of Captured German World War II photographs.
Yizkor Book Database

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

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


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


Brovary
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Bryanka
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Bryansk - had a Jewish presence and does have an Archive


Buchach (G) (Bucac, Buczacz) - 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. The table of contents of Sefer Buczacz has been translated into English and is available
http://www.jewishgen.org//yizkor/  

Additional web sites are at
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html
 
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/buchach/buchach.html

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

Further information may be available at http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

This shtetl had a strong, but small Jewish community and many of its citizens emigrated to the US.

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

Regional Special Interest Groups
: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.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
http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip/community.htm 

"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

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


Bukachevtsy (Bukaczowce) Galicia
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bukaczowce/bukmain.htm
www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf 


Bun'kovychi - located in a fairly wide river valley near the Carpathian Mountains and very close to Khyriv, another town.   Map site
http://lemko.org/maps100/Pages/Pg66.html 


Burakuvla (G) - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 


Burshtyn
www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf 


Bushchyno - the Rusyn name for BustyahazaBustyahaza 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) - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Additional web site
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Butsnevtsy (Butsni) - This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock
http://home.earthlink.net/~dchapin/ 


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) - is 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) 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 at
http://www.britannica.com/seo/b/bilhorod-dnistrovskyy/


Chelmniecki  - there is a small, neglected Jewish cemetery in what is now called Chelmniecki, Ukraine. Israel Friedlander and Bernard Cantor were Jewish emissaries from the US in the early 20th century, who were murdered while on a mercy mission The body of Israel Friedlander was re-interred in Israel in about 2001 and that of Bernard Cantor was left in Yarmolinitsy. This information was offered by Ruthie Ben-Mayor.
http://www.jdc.org/news_press_100103.html


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 

A database of record is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained at  
http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/k.net 

For Chernigov researchers, there is a Chernigov Research Group (probably the largest research of it's kind).  Their e-mail list with a description of the group
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/UKR/UKR-CHERNIGOV.html

A number of Chernigov web sites (some in English) are located at
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 

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

There is a Chernigov Archive that contains Jewish records including records from surrounding towns.

Chernigov was the name of a Guberniya (province), and was also the capital city of that province.
http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/ru-pale.txt


Cherkassy (Cherkassy, Cherkoss, Czerkasy) - located in the Cherkaska Oblast. It is a gray Ukrainian industrial city about two hours outside Kiev with about 300,000 residents and 4,000 to 5,000 Jews.  A database of records is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained at  
http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/ 

A Cherkaska Oblast Map is at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ukrwgw/cherkaskamap.html

http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/index/Ukraine.html

http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs.cgi/Ukraine/Cherkaska

where you will find Cherkaska Oblast Ukraine queries from those researching this Oblast.

A number of Cherkassy web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 

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


Chernivtsi (Chernowitz) - located in Chernivetska Oblast is in eastern Ukraine.  A database is available. The Chernivtsi Archives has Bukovina records.
http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/  

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

A number of Chernivtsi web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 

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

Chernivtsi - has an Oblast archive

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

In "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.


Chernobyl (Chornobyl) -
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Chernorudka - a small village located on the edge of Berdichev


Chervonoe - first available census: Revizskaya Skazka 1816. Next available census (Revizskaya Skazka 1834). In 1850 census


Chervonograd -  (Cervonograd, Chervonohrad) -
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Chmil'nyk (Chmielnik) - Contact Herbert Lazerow. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

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


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. A Yizkor Book "Sefer Yizkor le-hantsahat Kedoshei Kehillot Czerkow" (Memorial Book of Czerkow). The Table of Contents and Necrology and text of the English chapters have been translated
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor 

"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

A number of Chortkov web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


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.

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

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 .  There may be documents about the destruction of the region's Jews stored in the Vinitza Archives. Possible contact is Igor Desner vinjew@sovamuz.com 


Dbuosary - there are records available in the Ukrainian Archives


Debeslavtsi - southeast of Kolomyia.  A map is available at http://www.mapquest.com/ 


Debno - Contact Elaine Rosenberg - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 


Dedilov - "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


Delyatin (including Dora and Lanchin) (G) - "List of Soviet Citizens of Delyatin Shot by German-Fascist Invaders" -
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf 

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


Derazhnia - This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock
http://home.earthlink.net/~dchapin/ 


Dervenia  - a map of the area is available
http://www.mapquest.com/cgibin/ia_free?width=
500&height=300&level=58lat=501500&Ing=
  
 


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

www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf 

Yizkor Book
translations.html


Dolzanka - located in the Tarnopol District


Drogobych (Drohobitch) (Galicia)
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/drogobych/drogobych.html


Dzigovka - in "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 - (Ekaterinoslav) (now Ukraine) and 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.

A database of record is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained at  
http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/ 

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.

During 1918 the town's name was Sicheslav (The Glory for Sich/Fortress of Cossacks). from;
http://gorod.dp.ua/index_e.php">http://gorod.dp.ua/index_e.

Ekaterinoslav
(variant spellings are Yekaterinoslav and Keterinoslav) which is now known as Dnepropetrovsk.

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 4/25/03

A number of Dnepropetrovsk web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 

Dnepropetrovsk Kehilla Project
http://www.jcrcboston.org/Dnep.htm


Dnepropetrovsk Travel and Tourism
- Ukraine's third largest city - http://pages.prodigy.net/l.hodges/ukraine.htm

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

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

Jewish Community Center - located at 4 Sholom-Aleichem Str. Phone +380 (562) 362983 Fax: 362985  E-mail jcc@jcc.dp.ua
http://jew.dp.ua/english/vestnik.htm


Dobromil - 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) - 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

Additional web site at
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 

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


Donetsk (G) - is located in the Donetska Oblast. In the past it was known as both Yozuvka and in the mid 30s as Stalino.  It is in the Belarus Indexes and  more of a conglomerate of many towns, and very similar in nature to the Polish Upper Silesia regions where several mining towns were built around foundries and coal mines. It is west of Ivano Frankivsk.

A database of record is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained at  
http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/ 

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

A number of Donetsk web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 

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) are located at
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Drogobych (G) (Drogobic, Drohobych, Drohobitch) - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

More information available at 
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Drohobycz (G) (Drubich) - there are approximately 400 or so Jews still living in this town.  A translation of the "Sefer Zikaron le-Drohobycz, Broyslaw ve-ha-Seviva" (Memorial Book of Drohobycz, Boryslaw and Surrounding towns"); information for the 1929 Business Directory of Poland; pre-war telephone books; histories; cemetery lists; photographs; bibliography and more is in the works.  Contact Carole Feinberg feincgs@mindspring.com 

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

This town was formerly in Galicia.  For additional information, please click here to go to my web page on Galicia

For anyone interested in this shtetl, as well as Boryslaw/Borislav, Sambor, Stary Sambor, Dobromil and the many smaller settlements in this part of Western Ukraine, you are invited to subscribe to the BDS&V (V=vicinity) research group.  To learn about BDS&V go to InfoFiles on JewishGen
www.jewishgen.org 

Under 'Learn', click on "JewishGen InfoFiles"' under 'Countries' click on 'Ukraine' and then locate the Borislav, Drogobych, Sambor and vicinity research group.  Contact: Carole Glick Feinberg feincgs@mindspring.com 

Photo of city synagogue  http://members.tripod.com/~mikerosenzweig/polsynagog.htm  

Contact Laurel E White. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 


Druzhikivka
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Druzhkopol - located in the Volhynia Guberniya


Dubie - located about 12 km south of Brody and had more than 2,000 residences.  It is in the Brody, Raion, L'viv Oblast.


Dubno -
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Dunaevtsy (Dunaivtsi) - This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock
http://home.earthlink.net/~dchapin/  

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


Dymytrov (Dimitrov) - 
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Dzerzhynsk -
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Dzhankoy -
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Ekaterinapol - see Katerinapol


Elizabethgrad (Kirovohrad) - there was a pogrom here in 1905


Energodar -
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Fakshtin - there are records available in the Ukrainian Archives


Fastov (Fastiv) - located 37 miles southwest of Kiev. Additional information at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html  


Felshtin (Gvardeyskoye) - this is a well documented web site that offers links to a Yizkor Book; Documents and a Newsletter of the Felshtin Society  http://www.west.net/~jazz/felshtin/biblio.html 

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

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

There is an online Felshtiner Landsleit: The Newsletter of the Felshtin Society
www.west.net/~jazz/felshtin/

This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock
http://home.earthlink.net/~dchapin/ 

A Yizkor book was published in New York in 1937.


Feodosia (Feodosiya) - founded by the Greeks on the Black Sea.  More information available at 
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


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


Galych - (Galich)
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 
www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf 


Gaspra -
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Gaysin - This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock
http://home.earthlink.net/~dchapin/ 


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, please 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 - "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) 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. JewishGen cemeteries project spells it Holovanevsk.  There was a mini pogrom in 1904.


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 ) - was known in the past and again presently as Nizhniy
Novgorod.


Gorlice, Poland - Contact: Marjorie Rosenfeld e-mail marjorie.rosenfeld@cwix.com 
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/gorlice/gorlice.htm 


Gorlivka - A number of Gorlivka web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Gorodek Jagiellonski - Yizkor Book "Sefer Grayding" (Book of Griding (Grodek Jagiellonski) translation is available at
http://www.jewishgen.org//yizkor/translations.html 


Gorodenka (G) (Horokenka) - "Sefer Horodenka" and "List of Victims" (List of Soviet Citizens of Horodenka Region Shot by German-Fascist Invaders) - http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html   

This site was recently updated.
www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf 

"List of Victims" from documents of the Russian Commission, transliterated by Alexander Dunai and The Table of Contents and Necrology offered by Mark Heckman and Norman Berman
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html 

A group of genealogists researching this town has been formed.  For more information
http://shangrila.cs.ucdavis.edu:1234/heckman
/gorodenka/pol-research.html


This site has a list of the types of records available, a surname index for some of the records and estimated costs. A fund raising project has been initiated to translate the Yizkor Book for this shtetl
http://www.JewishGen.org/JewishGen-erosity/YizkorTrans.html 

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

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

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


Gorodishche - located south of Kiev and near Shpola


Gorodnitsa (G) - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 


Gorodok (Horodok, Grodek Jagiellonski) (G) - there are records available in the Ukrainian Archives.
www.mapblast.com  

The map spells this small city as Horodok and it is off the Minsk-Smolensk highway, close to Vitebsk.  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/

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

This site now has a translated Yizkor book at http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html 


Gorokhov (Horchiv) - "Sefer Horchow" (Gorokhov) Memorial Book) http://jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html 

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


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


Grimaylov (G) - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 


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
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Gusyatin (G) - (Husiatyn) (Galicia)
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/
SuchostavRegion/sl_husiatyn.htm

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

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


Gvardeyskoye (Felshtin) - Newsletter of the Felshtin Society
http://www.west.net/~jazz/felshtin/

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


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 - located South of Cernovcy.  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 - located in the rayon or district of Borshchiw and in the southern part of the Ternopil oblast.


Horodenko (Gorodenko)
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Hotin - (Khotyin, Chotin)
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Hotin/hotin.html 

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


Hryniv - (Polish = Hrynio'w) is located near Bobrka.  May also be spelled Gryniv.  A map of this village can help. 
www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/ia_free?width=500&height=
300&level=5&lat=497000&lng=
  

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.


Husiatyn (Gusiatyn, Gusyatyn, Husyatyn) - 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. The Administrative District is Husiatyn. 
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


Illichivsk -
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 


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

Located in the Ivan-Frankivska Oblast. It was a large city of more than 100,000 residents, including a thriving Jewish community of 25 to 30,000 Jews. It is located about 85 miles south of L'vov, and is a city of about 200,000.  It was named after the famous Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko.  It is the major gateway to the Carpathian Mountains.
http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/

Then follow the links.  This Oblast was once called Stanislaviv (Stanislau in the 1930s). 
http://www.JewishGen.org/JewishGen-erosity/YizkorTrans.html

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

www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/stanislawow/res_sum.html

Cemetery List
- accessible at
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Stanislawow-cemetery/  

Map of Cemetery -
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html 
There is more material available at this site including ARIM and Lists of Victims.  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.

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.

A number of Ivano-Frankivskl web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 

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