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During Soviet days,Ukrainian citiescarried 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.
TheJews 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, withL'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
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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
"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 NaselennikhMest Kienskoy Gubernii")
The List of Shtetls of
Kiev Guberniya with Index. Available in some major libraries in the US
List and a Map of Agricultural Colonies
From OurFather'sHarvestSupplement 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 Internationaloffers antique and prints of maps and globes at Art Source
International
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
Miestiechko is Ukrainian for shtetl
Povit -
Ukrainian word for an administrative district/county similar in size to a
township / County / district
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/
Selo -
Ukrainian word for village
The boundaries of a
Uyezd, Guberniyasand 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).
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
City of L'viv
To find where records can be found, right clickArchives Database, thenSearch Database. ActivateSoundexand 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.
"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
A small town 200 km fromOdessa. 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
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.
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
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."
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 inBerdechev 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 Germancontaining 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.
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.
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).
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 Archiveshas 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.
Bobrice is a grammatical form of Bobrka. There are three different towns of
Bobrka in three different administrative districts of: Bobrka; Krosno and Lisko. Note that
Bobrka spells with an accent over the 'o'. Bobrka was
formerly Galicia (near Lemberg) and now in Ukraine. A Yizkor book exists and
much of the information appears to be from Landesarchiv in Vienna. The
City Hall was destroyed in WW1.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bobrka/default.htm
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.
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
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
Bolechovto Stanislavov. On September 3, 1942, 2,000 Jews from
Bolechov were deported toBelzec. It
is about an hour and a half from L'vov.
The Jewish Cemetery in this shtetl is in poor
condition and contains many mass graves.
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. http://www.JewishGen.org/JewishGen-erosity/YizkorTrans.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.
This shtetl was at one time in Galicia, now currently Bolshovtsy
Borislav
(G) (Boryslaw, Borislaw)
Located in the western part ofUkraine 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.comA 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 Wolanka. Yizkor Book - "Tys'mienica Nadai Plynie"(As the Tys'mienica Flows)translation is available. Contact is Laurel White. http://www.jewishgen.org//yizkor/translations.html
Borshchiv
(G) (Borschev, Borszczo'w
the Ukrainian name). (Borszczow is the Polish name and was the Austrianplace 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.
"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
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
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
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. The table of contents of
Sefer Buczacz has been translated into English and is available http://www.jewishgen.org//yizkor/
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
The
Table of Contents of Sefer Buczacz is actively being translated
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
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.
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)
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 ofChernigov 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
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/
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.
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)
Radomysl' Uyezd Kiev Guberniya. Known now because of the
nuclear power plant disaster. The fallout was 400 times greater
than that of the Hiroshima bombing. More than 300,000 people were
evacuated. Following the disaster, a 17 mile zone of exclusion was
created around the city. The land can't be used because of
contamination. Photos, taken by Swiss photographer Timm Suess can be
seen at this site. The subjects are bleak, but the photos are
beautiful. Many are high-dynamic range images. Nobody is
supposed to live in the zone of exclusion, but people do still live
there. Remember that when you view the photos.
http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-04-26/Chernobyl__23_years_later.html?gclid=CNi7tcD84ZsCFQtN5QodD1Bc-w
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
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.
Located southwest of Kiev and southeast of Vinitza and was in the east VinitzaOblast. 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 Desnervinjew@sovamuz.com
Dbuosary - there are records available in the Ukrainian Archives
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
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)
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.
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). http://gorod.dp.ua/index_e.php">http://gorod.dp.ua/index_e. 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.
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.
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.
Drohobycz
(G) (Drogobych, Drogobic,
Drohobitch)- (Once in Eastern
Galicia, now Drogobych, in Western Ukraine)
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
L'viv oblast in western Ukraine. About 25,200 vital records are available at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw and will be indexed by JRI-Poland:
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.com
See also additional information at my Ukrainian web page by clicking hereUkraine
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 dz_histoil.htm
Deportation of the Jews to Belzec death camp. Between 1942 and 1943, the Nazis deported 10,000 Jews from Drogobych to Belzec death camp. Of a prewar Jewish community of 15,000, only a few Jews survived. http://motic.wiesenthal.com/gallery/pg19/pg3/pg19368.html
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
Dunaevtsy (Dunaivtsi) - This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock http://home.earthlink.net/~dchapin/
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
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.
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.
"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
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
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/
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.
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
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/
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.
"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
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/
"My Word Is My
Bond: A Memoir" - authored by Paul Weinberg is a story of a young man
who moves from Kalush to New York and brings his first cousin
to the new country to be his wife. http://www.mywordismybond.net/
A relatively large town located in southwestern part of Ukraine. The State Archive ofKhmelnytsky Oblast, 281900 Kamenets -Podolski, Khmelnytska, vul. R. Liuksemburg 15a, 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.
Another address given for the City/State Archive is Plosha Polskiy Rinok Square, 14/16, ( located in the old town of Kamenets) Kamianets-Podilsky Khmeinitska oblast 32300 Ukraine
Center of the Genealogical Information and Researches:History of the Family, Ukraine Kiev, 252146, 22 Zhmerinskya Str., off 86. 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
"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
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)
Located in the Kiev province and about 115 miles south of Kiev and was also referred to as Kalniboloto (the Yiddish shtetl name) 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
A village where the Germans, in 1943, discovered in the nearby forest, the graves of 4,250 Polish Army officers who had been captured by the Soviet Army in 1939-40. http://www.infoukes.com/history/ww2/page-16.html
I found that my half brother, Aaron, his wife and 12 year old daughter, were among the many Jews killed by the Nazis when they invaded this town in WW II.
Shirley Margulis and the Jewish Secretary of the Kharkov Synagogue.
Photo taken by Ted Margulis, August, 1994
Kharkov (Kharkiv, Harkiv)
The second largest city inUkraine and the administrative center of the Kharkov Oblast. It is located in the northeastern part ofUkraine, 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. 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 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
Located in the
Khersonska Oblast. A database of record is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained at http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/
Located in
Podolia Guberniya- previously known as Proskurowand located in the
Khmelnytska Oblast. A database is not yet available, but check this site for relevant information. http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/
As of 2008, there
are 10 Jews living in this town, one of them being a Jewish French
professor. There is a Jewish cemetery, situated in a field next to a
hen house. The cemetery was reported as being neglected and overtaken
by weeds, with a small gray monument with a slanted front. It is a
monument dedicated to the Jews who died during the 1941 occupation.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ukraine-Khotyn-Cemetary-Mass-Grave.jpg
Outside of Kiev Synagogue. Photo taken by Ted Margulis, August, 1994
Postcard of 'The Gate of Kiev'
Kiev (Kyiv)
Located in the north of the central part of Ukraine, and is the major city and capital. The city is part of the Kyivska Oblast. A database of record is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained at http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/
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, Volynia, 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.
A 10 foot monument to Sholom Aleichem is located in the downtown section of the city, next to the house in which he lived during the turn of the century. Plans are to make it a museum. Sholom coined the word "Yehupetz" representing Kiev in his writings. There is a discussion group at http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/Kiyev2.txt
Kiev Archives - has the former Russian records of the Ukraine area.
Traveling to Kiev and Ukraine - General Facts About Ukraine - if you want to know about the country, then this site has a lot to offer and is about Ukraine today if you are interested in traveling there in the future. Includes tips, money, credit cards, currency exchanges, barbers and beauty shops, tracing Genealogy Roots and so much more http://www.uazone.net/Ukraine_General.html
Located in the Kirovohradska Oblast. A database of record is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/
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
Kitsman -located in a region of Ukraine that is known as Bucovina (Bukovyna)It is about 30 km almost directly north of Chernivtsi and a county seat. A write up about the city is published in the Ukrainian Encyclopedia published by University of Toronto. The river Dniester separates Bukovina from Galicia. Kicman is the Polish transliteration of the spelling of Kitsman in its Cyrillic letters. In the Polish language 'C' is pronounced 'ts'. "Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina" http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Bukowinabook/bukowina.html
Klichkovich - (Klichkovichi) - 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.
What is probably even less known is that Kliczkowce and near by villages: Milanowicze (Milyanovichi) , Tupaly, Wolka Kowelska, Lubliniec, Hrydki, Czerkasy, Turowicze (Turovichi), Olszanka, Kalinowka, Kliewiec, Rudniki and Kruhel have been all part of centralized village Stare Koszary. Stare Koszary are known as Staryye Koshary, but several of those colonies are not shown on the maps.
Kolomyia (G) (Kolomea, Kolomey, Kolomya) - "Extermination of the Jews of Kolomyia and District" - "Emergence of Genocide in Galicia and Resettlement Transports to Belzec Extermination Camp" - "Pinchas Kolomey" (Memorial Book of Kolomey)http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
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. http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip/community.htm
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.
Korets - located 62 km east of Rovno. There is a 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 on 5/26/04 http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0406/excerpt4.html
Kortelisy - The Germans burned this village to the ground on September 23, 1942 and killed all of its 2,892 residents - men, women and children. About 459 Ukrainian villages were completely destroyed with all, or part of, their population murdered. Ninety seven in Volhynia Gubernya; 32 in Zhitomir; 21 in Chernihiv; 17 in Kiev and elsewhere. http://www.infoukes.com/history/www2/page-20.html
Koshar - 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
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. http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html
Krakovets
Located almost exactly on the current Ukraine-Poland border and 40 miles west of L'viv.
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.
These web sites contains some general information including
Kremenets records, and updates on the progress of the Shtetl Co-Op, along with photos and history relating to Jews http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/
Jewish Cemetery in Kremenets - "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
Associated with
the Kremenets Museum is Tamar Senina who is working on
identifying old Jewish Kremenets
A project is hopeful of 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 other towns with similar names located in
Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovak Republic, Macedonia, Russia, Serbia and in Ukraine.
Krukenitse (Polish Krukienice, Krukenicja) - northwest of the Drogobych Oblast, and is 13 miles north northwest of Sambor (Sambir). It 1939 it had a population over 500. Today, it is located in the L'vivoblast.
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
Krzemieniec - 'Memorial Book Of Krzemieniec' - Translation of Pinkas Kremenits; Sefer Zikaron - edited by Abraham Samuel Stein and published in Tel-Aviv in 1954 - includes a history of Jewish settlement in Kremenets; Before WW I and more http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kremenets/kremenets.html
Ksaverov (Ksaveriv) - located near road P94 Narodichi-Malin, 25 miles south of Narodiche near the town of Nedashki
Kukizov - "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 - is 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 KurskOblast was established in 1934 and its boundaries are the Orel Oblast on the north, the VoronezhOblast 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 and. 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-FrankivskOblast. 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/
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.
Lebedintsy (Lebeda) - is located 30 miles southeast of Zhitomir. A map is available at http://www.mapquest.com/
Letichev District (Podolia) Letichev Uyezd (147.9 miles WSW of Kiev) 8 Shtetls: 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
Liatychiv (Latyczow)(Starostwo) - 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" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 652
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.
Luboml - In October, 1941, this village disappeared from the face of the earth. Nazi storm troopers occupied the shtetl of more than 4,000 Jews who were systematically massacred and then buried in mass graves.
"Remembering Luboml: Images of a Jewish Community" - is an exhibition that showed at the Schatten Gallery, Woodruff Library on the Emory University campus in Atlanta, Ga. Information at (404) 727 6868.
Lutsk - located in the Volynska Oblast. A translation of "Geven a Shtot Lutsk, Geven un Umgekumen" (Once There Was a Town Named Lutsk and it was Destroyed) is an unpublished memoir authored by Joseph Receptor http://www.jewishgen.org/
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. 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.
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.
The city was not founded by the Poles, the Germans, nor the Austrians, but it was founded in the mid-13th century by Prince Danylo Romanovych. He named the city after his son, Lev. Lev, in Russian, means lion. The Germans called it Lemberg which means "Lion's City.
Jews settled in L'vov soon after it was founded in the mid-13th century.
Galicia became part of the Hapsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1772 and
L'vov changed its name to Lember and only the wealthy and educated Jews who
adopted the German way of life were allowed to live outside the city's
Jewish quarter. There is an article, authored by Dan Fellner in the April
2008 issue of Hadassah Magazine http://www.hadassah.org/
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 plaque and
persecutions. By the end of the 14th century, L'vov had two Jewish
settlements. On was inside the walled city and other outside the
gates. Each had their own synagogues and mikvahs, but shared a
cemetery.
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.
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 L'viv Archivesdoes not have Parish Records of towns that were formerly in the Hungarian Rutheniabut they do have former Galicia town records. The L'viv Historical Archives has virtually nothing for towns that were formerly in the Bukowina area. E-mail for Diana Pelts, Director of the L'viv Archives is archives@cl.lv.ukrtel.net
TheLwów Archives indicated that they have records for 1829, 1831-50 and 1896.
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/
Galician Forced Laborers from L'vov: Data on 1,110 workers, from a collection of the L'viv State Archives. 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.
Hassidic Movement
- L'vov became the center of
the Hasidic movement towards the end of the 18th century.
Jewish Community Center
- housed in the Hesed Arieh (Lvov
Jewish House; 30 Kotlarevski Street; Phone 011 380 322 389 860; Website is
in Russian. There is also a one-room museum in the building. The
facility is directed by Ada Dianova
arie@hesed.lviv.ua www.hesed.lviv.ua
L'viv Election list - is stored at Yad Vashem. There are twenty-three paper folders in a file called M52. Everything is in Russian. The folders are in three boxes and these boxes contain twenty-six folders according to a posting to JewishGen by Israel Pickholtz Zach4v6@actcom.co.il 3/23/02
L'viv Ghetto
-
little remains, but there is a pink building
at 3 Ugolna Street which is the site of a mid-19th century synagogue,
yeshiva and mikve. It was the city's only functioning synagogue
between 1945 and 1962 when it was closed by the Soviets. A memorial to
the victims of the ghetto is at Chornovola Street, near the railroad bridge.
L'viv Pogroms
- One occurred in 1918 leaving 70
Jews dead.
"L'viv Sightseeing Guide" - a nicely organized publication with maps, including separate sections dealing with museums and cemeteries. ISBN 966 7022 09 9
L'viv 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.
Golden Rose
Synagogue built in 1582 inside the city walls by the Nachmanovich family and
at one time, there was a fight about who own the land that the synagogue was
built on with the Jesuits, but the Jews were able to prove that they owned
the land. The synagogue remained right up until the Holocaust when the
Nazis burned it down in 1942. Part of the northern wall has survived
and bears a plaque written in English, Hebrew and Ukrainian.
Remains of the synagogue are located at 54 Starojevrejskaja Street.
Next door is the local bureau of the Union of Councils for Jews in the
Former Soviet Union which offers a small kosher canteen which can provide
kosher meals to visitors. Contact to make arrangements 380 322 622
219; meylach@link.lviv.ua
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.
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.
Union Council for Jews in
the Former Soviet Union www.ucsj.com
L'viv White Page Telephone Book Oleh Iwanusiw, a Ukrainian genealogist, olehwi@attcanada.net , a member of the genealogy@infoukes.com discussion group has a 1999 Phone Book and has offered to lookup phone numbers.
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.
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.
"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 my link to Amazon.com
"The
Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness" -
authored by Simon Wiesenthal and published by Schocken.
"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.
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.
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
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.
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" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 2,039.
Melnitsah (Melnitza, Melnitsas in Yiddish and Melnitsah) - located in the Tarnopol Oblast. There is a Yizkor book ("Melnitza Survivors in Israel and Diaspora") for the town: The Editor is Joshua Liot, and published in Tel Aviv in 1994 and includes illustrations, maps in Hebrew, Yiddish and English.
Mikhalpol (Mikhampol, Mikhalovka) - This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock http://home.earthlink.net/~dchapin/
Mikolaiow (Mikolayev, now Nikolayev) located in Podolia Guberniya
Daniel Kazez has a link to his Oberman (Guberman) and Lis (Liss) families from this town at guberman-lis.html
Mogilev Podolski - (Mohyliv-Podil's'kyi) 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).
The telephone code is 04337 and the Director's number for the telephone service is 23 444
Bolshiye 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.
Mukacheve (Mukachevo, Mukacsevo, Munkacs) located in Zakarpatskaya Oblast. There is an alphabetical listing of 1,500 individuals buried in the destroyed Jewish cemetery. The list has been previously available in Hebrew and now in English. The information is from an enumeration list prepared during the end of the 1920s. The cemetery with the tombstones was eradicated in the mid 1960s, ostensibly for commercial expansion. http://www.jewishgen.org/Hungary
Munkacs (Mukacsevo, Mukachevo) - located in Zakarpats'ka Oblast. There is an alphabetical listing (in English and in Hebrew) of 1,500 individuals buried in the destroyed Jewish cemetery. Contact: Louis Schonfeld Lmagyar@en.com http://www.jewishgen.org/Hungary
Muszkatowka (Mushkativka) located in the Borszczow District. The Balch Institute located at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's facility at 13th andLocust Street in Philadelphia has information about the immigrant experience. A map is available at http://www.mapquest.com/
Mychnovets (Michnowec) - a listing of the inhabitants of this village, including the street names is in the possession of Oleh Iwanusiw who can be contacted at olehwi@attcanada.net
Located in the Mykolaivska Oblast. 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" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 1,142.
The founder of the Ndvorna dynasty was
the Buczacz rebbe ztkll.h was the 5th generation descended to the Baal Shem
Tov Ztkll.h according to Chaim Lerman lechaim@telkomsa.net
Located in the northeast corner of
Zhitomir province, 20 miles northeast fromKorosten on local road P22. In
Ukrainian this name would be known as Velikiye Narodiche
Nemirov
Located north of
Breslov. There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives
Nezhin (Nizhyn)
The town of
Nezhin is located in the Chernigov province of Ukraine. Jews first settled in
Nezhin, after the partition of Poland, at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Photos, maps and history of the town and area are at http://www.ourfamilystory.net/chaiken/chaiken _pages/ancestra/ancestral.htm
Nova Ushitsa - David Goldman davic@pop.erols.comreports that metric records for this shtetl aren't even in the closest large city,
Novgorod-Siverskyi - (Novgorod Seversk, Novgorod-Soversk)- a town in Ukraine, about 160 miles northeast of Kiev. It's not far from Chernigov. Novgorod-Seversk, State of Chernigov (now Gorky). http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html
Novgorod-Seversk in tsarist times was part of the Chernigov Guberniya. The northern part of that tsarist province was moved out of Chernigov province in Soviet times, mostly into Bryansk province, perhaps a bit into Gomel province, but Novgorod-Seversk is within the current borders of Ukraine. Novgorod means "new city" or "new town", and is a common place name
Such records as might have survived from that town should be in the archive in Chernigov, and those records have been filmed and are available from SLC at your local FHC (in Russian and Hebrew/Yiddish).
Novgorod Volynsk Uyezd - there is an 1850 census. Unfortunately this is the only source of information about Novgorod Volynsk Uyezd. No other census or birth records survived.
"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
Obertin
"A List of Jewish People Who Were Imprisoned and Taken into German Slavery fro Obertin Region" from documents of the
Russian Commissiontransliterated by Alexander Dunai http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html
A deep water port with access to the Dnepr River. Irving Howe, in his "World of Our Fathers" states that the reason that Jews coming from
Ukraine and southern Russiadid not use this port was that it was rarely practical as it was longer and more expensive. In 1794, it was created as a
Russian city when it was won from the Turks in a war. It became a major Jewish center, especially for
Polish and Galician Jews, once the reforms of Alexander II in 1861 were instituted. There was a
1905 pogrom. It is estimated that present day Odessa has a Jewish population of somewhere around 25 to 30,000 souls.
In 1820,
Odessan Jews founded the first institution of higher education in the Russian Empire, where Jewish students could learn secular subjects such as European
Life for Jews in the city, and surrounding areas, was less harsh and restrictive, than in the rest of
Russia. Jews could be admitted into the city's gymnasia (schools) after demonstrating their educational prowess by passing a written examination. In 1876, there were three gymnasia and two schools called 'Pre-gymnasia'. http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/odessa/
Baltimore Jewish Community rescue, relief and renewal of the Jewish community in
Odessa http://www.associated.org/
Brody Synagogue - this site provides information about the
Brody synagogue and also about the Nahlas Eliezer Synagogue, the Central Synagogue
and the Kosher Meat and Slaughters Synagogue. The site includes illustrations of each synagogue described and also and also of the personages associated with each one. http://www.moria.farlep.net/vjodessa/en/synagogs.html
There is an article in the
Eretz magazine (geographic magazine from Israel) issue 73 for Nov/Dec. 2000) which includes a photographic essay on Jewish life in
Odessa, past and present. E-mail: eretz@eretz.co.il www.eretz.com Occident and American Jewish Advocate
Industry of the Jews at Odessa in 1842/1844 http://jewish-history.com/Occident/volume2/nov1844/odessa.html
'The Rebirth of the Jewish Community of Odessa'
A lecture given at a Jewish Culture Workshop as stated in a 284 page book by Igal Kotller. The program is setup in
German and includes several familiar names including Alexander Beiderman http://uni-potsdam.de/u/mmz/odessa99.htm
Tikva Children's Home
Although this site doesn't offer any genealogical value, please take a look. This website provides information about Tikva Children's Home, a non-profit organization whose core mission is to care for the homeless, abandoned and abused Jewish children of the
Odessa region of Ukraine. Tikva provides a loving home, essential social services, a first-rate education in the environs of a revitalized Jewish community, and an opportunity for a brighter future through immigration to
Israel.
The site is managed by Tikva' s
New York fundraising and PR office and includes photos and bios of the children it saves, information about programs in
Ukraine and Israel, announcements of upcoming field visits to Odessa, and myriad opportunities for individuals, companies and organizations to help this worthy cause http://www.tikvaodessa.org/
Baal Shem Tov - Israel Ben Eliezer was born on Chai (18th) Elul 5458 (1698) in this small village in Western Ukraine. This site is devoted to spreading the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov through stories, music and art - http://www.baalshemtov.com/
This town (Okupy) is mentioned in
"The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock http://home.earthlink.net/~dchapin/
Olesina (Olesino)
The name during the Soviet period. Today it is Olesyn; in Polish it is Olesin and this was the spelling during the Austrian period. It is about 6 miles northeast of Kozova and Kosova is about 10 miles East of Berezhany. Kosova in Ukrainian (transliterated); Kosowa in Polish and Austrian name. It is a village and about 5 km (3 miles) north of Kozova and is a county seat (Raions). It was part of oblastTernopil in western Ukraine and was part of Poland until September 1939 and in Galicia, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, from 1772-1918.
Vital Statistic Records are available on microfilm. For further information
- select culture, then Lemkos and then genealogy. http://www.infoukes.com
A map is available and information maybe available at the
Przemysl Archives. http://www.mapquest.com
Oster
Located inChernigovskaya Guberniya. There are other towns with this, or a similar name: Oster 5057 3053 N
Ukraine 39.1 miles NNE of Kiev; Ostjor
(OSTER) 5057 3053 V Ukraine 39.1 miles NNE of Kiev;Ostra (VISTRYA) 4855 2508 V Ukraine 262.3 miles WSW of
Kiev; Ostra 4819 2539 N Ukraine 263.0 miles WSW of
Kiev; Ostre; 4843 2431 N Ukraine 293.5 miles WSW of
Kiev
Ostrog
Located originally in Volhynia Guberniya, but today it is in
Robno Oblast. Jewish Presence: since 15th century. Under the Cossack uprising in 1648-49, 7,000 Jews were massacred. Pre-Holocaust Jewish population: approximately 10,500 Fate of Jews during WW II: murdered outside town by Nazis and
Ukrainian collaboratorsPost-war: the community was not rebuilt after the war.
"Sefer Ostrog (Vohlin); Matsevet Zikaron Le-Kehila Kedosha) Ostrog book; A Memorial to the Ostrog Holy Communitypublished by The Ostrog Society in Israel in 1987. Translation on-line http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
A town about 10 miles west and slightly north of Ternopol. It is in the Zvoriv Guberniya and is about half way to Zvoriv (Zborow) Before the war it had a population of 6,500 with about 850 Jews. http://www.mapquest.com
Peresyp - a large industrial district on the outskirts of Odessa that built its first synagogue in the early 1890s, from donations from local residents, notable among them Lazar Klebman, a merchant. The synagogue was name Nahlas Eliezer. More information about this and other area synagogues can be found at http://www.moria.farlep.net/vjodessa/en/synagogs.html
Pervomaysk (Bogopol, Myk)
Located in the VinnitsaProvince and in the former RussianPodolia Guberniya. It is 94 km southeast of
Uman. The town was created in 1919 after the villages of Olviopol and Holta combined with Bogopol to form Pervomaysk. Prior to WW I it was in the RussianPodolia Guberniya , and today it is in the Mykolaiv Oblast. More information available at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html
Pikulovitse - "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
Pisarevka - located 191.3 west southwest of Kiev in the Khmelnytska oblast
Pochayev - Yizkor Book"Pitshayever Yizkor Bukh" (Memorial Book Dedicated to the Jews of Pitchayev-Wohlyn executed by the Germans) - translation is available at http://www.jewishgen.org//yizkor/translations.html
Podbortse - "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
Podhajce - (Podgavtsy)
The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow. Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.
Podlaski Malyye - "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
Podolia , located in the southwestern Ukraine, northeast of Moldova/Bessarabia and now in Ukraine. The largest city is Kamenetz-Podolsk. A map of the general area is available at: http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~feefhs/maps/ruse/re-ukrai.html
Located
50° 07'N x 27° 31'E Poninka and Novalabun, all are located in the Volhynia Guberniya. The site has past and present photos, historical summaries; a summary of surnames being research; bibliography; and a list of Landmanschaften cemeteries.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/polonnoye/index.html
There is a Peretz Markish Museum opened.
This was the birthplace of this famous Yiddish poet and murdered under
Stalin in 1952, along with other Jewish writers in the Soviet Union.
Curator is Semyon Bentsiannv.
Popiel - located near Boryslaw and 4km from Boryslaw-Tustanowice. In the 1921 National Poland Census, there were 1,834 people living in this village of which there were 27 - 50 Jews, but only 19 declared their mother language as Jewish. From the 1929 Poland Business Directory this village was located in Drohobycz County, Lwów Province in Poland at that time. The Regional Court was in Sambor
Postolivka -
Located in the Husiatynskyi Raion, Ternopilska Oblast. Here is a list of probable Jewish surnamed soldiers born in this town who died or disappeared in WW II and published on the Internet: Baran, Berchyshyn, Bekhavskyi, Bialkovskyi, Hensiur/Gensiur, Zel, Zubak, Kowalski, Kolisnyk, Konkani, Kravets, Kushil, Malkut, Mushaliuk, Podolskiy, Polnyi, Slobodetskyi, Teshner, Turchyn, Shevela.
Located in Podolia Guberniya. This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock http://home.earthlink.net/~dchapin/
1875 Jewish census is located at the Kaminetz-Podolsk Archives
Przemysl
was part of the Rzeszow "Kehila", but they parted ways and
Przemysl became part of "Kehilat Lember" (L'vov).
This is an easy to search site that includes a interactive Road Atlas of Ukraine, music and a clickablemap of the Eparchy of Przemysl: http://lemko.org
Rabotishche - located about 120 miles west of Kiev. A map is available of the area http://www.mapquest.com
Rachov (Rakhiv, Rakhov in Ukrainian; Rakhov in Czech and Raho in Hungarian) Located near the Tisla river )- located in the Zakarpats'ka Oblast and is south of L'viv and north of Sighet, Romania. In 1941, it had a population of 12,455 and belonged to the Austria-Hungary until 1920, when it passed on to Czechoslovakia.
The site includes a lot of new discoveries. It contains eight parts:
History; Images; Maps; Links; Holocaust; Archives & databases; Memoirs &
Family stories and Genealogy. The site also (under Archives &
Databases) a link to the 1913 List of Radomyshl Businesses and a list of
Holocaust victims named by street. http://radomyshl.lk.net
Images of Radomyshl - this site contains History, Images, Maps, Links, Holocaust Archives and databases, Memoirs and family stories and Genealogy http://radomyshl.lk.net/imindex.html
Ratno - "Ratne; Sipura Shel Kehila Yehudit she-Hushmedah" (Ratne; the Story of a Jewish Community that was destroyed). The Editor is Nahman Tamir who lives in Tel Aviv and the Ratno Society in Israel, published the book in 1983. The book is not translated into English yet.
Repuchewitz - is corrupted German/Yiddish version of village Repuzynce, pronounced [reh poo zhee ntseh] (currently known in Ukrainian as Repuzhintsy at 4839 2548) located just 3 miles East from Zalishchyky.
Both localities are located within the historical Bukovina where Ukrainian, Romanian (Moldavian), Russian, German (Austrian) and Yiddish town names are happily mixed up.
Rovno (Rovno, Ruvno, Ruvne)
Located in the Volhynia Guberniya and is the Rivenska Oblast (Province) capital in the NW area of Ukraine. This site will also offer various maps, history, searchabledatabase and photos.
Along with the city of Rivne, both Lutsk and Zhitomir are also capital cities of their respective oblasts and all three oblasts form a region known as Volyn', or Volhynia. This is a plateau, in the forest zone of Ukraine, bordering with the Polissiaregion (Pripet marshes, lowlands that spread into Belarus). On the west is the Pidliasshiaregion of Poland, on the South Galitzia and Podoliaregions of Ukraine, and on the east --- Central Ukraine Kyiv region.
Rogachev - located between Berdichev and Novograd Volynskiy.
Rogatin (G) (Rohatyn) - once part of Galicia, Rohatyn (Ukrainian: Рогатин, in Polish): a city located on the Hnyla Lypa River in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/rohatyn/rohatyn.htm
Rozniatow - Yizkor Book"Sefer Zikaron le-Kehillot Rozniatow" (Yizkor Book in Memory of Rozniatow) which includes the neighboring communities of Stryj, Dolina, Bolkhov, Kalush and Stanislawow. TheTable of Contents indicates that there is a map of Rozniatow and photos http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Rozniatow/Rozhnyatov.html
Sadgura (Sadagera in Yiddish) - a suburb of Chernivtsi. At one time the population was about 80% Jewish. Links to additional information including photos, maps, databases, personal trips, about the area http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/sadgura/sadgura.html
Memoirs on the Sadgura ShtetLinks web site recalling life in Sadgura (Bukovina) and Chotin (Ukraine) in the early 1900s. Jack (Yankel) Becker tells the story of his early years in this 1974 oral history - interview with his daughter, Elizabeth becker.html
Sadowej-Wiszni (Sadowa Wisznia, Sudova Vysnya, Sudovaya Vishnya, Vinizka) ) - is in present day Ukraine and is 28.4 miles west of L'viv and 26 miles east of Przemysl - just over the Polish Border.
Sambor (Sambir) - this is a 15th century community which had about 8,000 Jews before the WW II. Most were deported to Belzec http://motic.wiesenthal.com/
Records for Sambor, Galicia (now Sambor, Ukraine) are available at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw and will be indexed by JRI-Poland. Births: 1862-1883, 1885-1897; Marriages: 1877-1897; Deaths: 1868-1883, 1887-1894
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" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 1,625.
Shargorod (G) A town in
Vinnitsaoblast, Ukrainian SSR An organized Jewish community existed there from the latter half of the 17th century. Contact Yackov & Lena Berkun. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.jewishgen.org
then go to ShtetLinks and then to SIG sites
In "The Shtetl: Image and Reality," edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov and published by the University of Oxford in 2000, offers a study by Alla Sokolova, entitled "The Podolian Shtetl as Architectural Phenomenon."
The author describes the general layout of several towns: Shargorod, Tomashpol, Chernivtsi, Yaruga, Bershad and Dzigovka and discusses the architecture and interiors of many of the buildings she visited. At the back of her chapter she presents a 'schematic plan' of Shargorod.
She also reproduces a photograph of a frame house in Shargorod, which has a stone basement and walls of mud and thatch cylinders, dating from the second half of the 19th century. There is also a photograph of another, similar house in Shargorod, but with a different floor plan. This house dates from the early part of the 19th century, but has a facade of brick which was done in the early 1990s as part of its modernizing. Each photograph is accompanied by a floor plans showing where the various rooms were located.
Shumsk - located at 50'07'/26'07', 62 km south of Rovno. It is now part of the Ternopil District , but is identified with the historic region of Volhynia. It was part of Poland from the 16th century to the end of the 18th century, when it became part of Russia.
In 1921 the Treaty of Riga returned Shumsk to Poland. It became part of the USSR in 1939, but was overtaken by the German Army during World War II. In 1945 Shumsk was again part of the USSR, and remained so until the establishment of the independent state of Ukraine in 1991. http://www.sonic.net/~shumsker/shumsk/shumsk.html
Shyshkovtse - there are two towns with this name; one was in the district of Zaleszczyki, sub district Tluste and is 50 km north of Chernivtsi. The other Shyshkovtse was in the Brody district, sub district PolkaMien.
Skala (G) - (Skala-Podolskaya ) once a part of Galicia and is located in Borshchiv Guberniya, Ternopol Oblast and about 60 miles southeast of Ternopol, bordering Halychyna (Galicia). It lies east of Gorodenka, just west of Kamenets Podolski. The population is approximately 5,000.
To the north there is the town of Smotrich and Orinin is due south. According to the Times Atlas of the World (Page 82) it is located in a direct line between Chortkov in the northwest and Kamenets Podolski in the southeast. This whole area is east of L'vov in an area surrounded by Ivano-Frankovsk in the west, Ternopol in the north- Khmelnytsky in the east and Chenovtsy in the south. http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/ SuchostavRegion/sl_skala.htm
A visit the Skalat Holocaust Memorial in the Holon Cemetery, which can be viewed from the Skalat site at SRRG. The page for the memorial is labeled "New". You'll also find a 'Trip Report' including photos. http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/Skalat/Skalat.html
The Skalaters Association in Israel is planning to visit and dedicate a memorial consisting of Jewish gravestones that had been used as building material, in July 2002. This memorial was constructed in a corner of the former cemetery now being used by a nearby school as a soccer field. At the edge of the soccer field, there is some fifteen gravestones, neatly stacked. There is also a Holocaust memorial outside the town. This memorial includes about twenty gravestones that had been taken from the cemetery, standing around the central memorial. So that the stones would all be of the same height, some were cut at the bottoms, where the names appeared. Further information can be obtained from Haim Braunstein 03 618 3213 or 40 Hibat Zion, Ramat Gan 52408, Israel. http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip.Cems.htm
There is a 'synagogue' which had been turned into a warehouse and is deserted now.
"The old cemetery
has been destroyed. The between wars cemetery is in the back and pretty
overgrown. The post WW2 cemetery is in the front, has 100-200 stones and is
maintained. There are also 3 mass murder sites there marked by memorials.
One of the memorials lists the family names of the people who were killed
there."
http://www.mrt5.com/ukraine.html
Skovyatin - (Polish: Skowiatyn)
Borszczow district in Tarnopol region was part of Austro-Hungarian Empire. The town is located close to the
old Russia (Podolia region) - Austria border, but nevertheless it was in
Austria, not Russia.
Skovyatino
Located at 5848 3723, near
Cherepovets
Skubyatino
Located at 5519 3104 near Belarusian border is situated only 15 miles from the known Jewish town Surazh (Surazh-Vitebskiy, Surz) in the Vitebsk region
http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html
Slavuta
Located in the
Khmel'nyts'ka Oblast, Slavutskii District.
There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives. There is information available at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html
Smla - a certificate, obtained by Ruth Rosenbloom, indicates: 'That in the Registry Books of the Birth of Jewish people in the town of Smla, Kiev County, in 1885, in the Female Column #88, is an extract that to Zoose Abramovitch Belatsakofske, a reserve discharged from the Russian army, and his wife Mariam Ruhel, was born on June 28, 1885, in Smla, a daughter, to whom was given the name Muse. Town of Smla, 1910, June 8, Smolensk Community of Rabbis.' This translation was done by 'The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society' May 1956
Sniatyn (G) (Snyatyn) - formerly in Galicia and now located in Ukraine. Most of the Jews were sent to Belzec Camp by the Nazis in April, 1942 and July 9, 1942.
The Sniatyn Landsmanshaft has been in continuous existence for more than 100 years and offers a site that includes an historical overview of the town, region maps, old postcards of the town, a long, descriptive and highly interesting interview with a woman who was born in Sniatyn in the first decade of this century, an overview of the Sniatyn Landsmanshaft and its current genealogical activities plus a comprehensive list of the current genealogical holdings http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Sniatyn/ Click on cancel if a password dialog box pops up.
The Churches and synagogues wee responsible to recording vital statistics (births and deaths) for the state. The Sniatyn historical books could be in several places: in the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine, L'viv; in the local registry office (ZAHS) in Oblast Archives (Sniatyn is in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast); or in the Polish National Archives (Archives of Ancient Documents in Warszawa). The ZAHS has more recent documents.
Snitkov (Snitovka) - This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock http://home.earthlink.net/~dchapin/
Sobolevka - there are 6 different towns named Sobolevka.
Sokal - while there are many towns that have the name Sokol, in west Ukraine, there is only one place that has the spelling of Sokal. A map is available at http://www.mapquest.com/
Staneshti de Zhos - the following link to this shtetl 's site has been expanded with the addition of a Memorial List and a List of Survivors "Die Juden in Unter-Stanestie" (The Jews of Unter-Stanestic) and "Unter Stanestie Bukowinaer Circle, Inc." printed in a 20th anniversary booklet and banquet journal. Just follow this site: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/
Located east of Warsaw. There are several hundred Jews living in this community 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. http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip/community.htm
"Chapter Two of The Jews of Stanislawow Province" - authored by Rabbi Moishe Leib Kolesnik in PDF format- includes selected items (by Town) from the Rabbi's Archive
Stara Ropa
Located in the
Stary Sambir rayian(district) in the L'viv oblast in Western Ukraine. It is listed under the neighboring parish of
Starya Sol (Russian spelling) in the book about the L'viv Oblast - "Istoria Horodovy iSel Ukraininskoi SSR - Lvovskaya Oblast". There are 26 volumes, see Volume 6. There are also volumes of a Soviet Encyclopedia in English.
Stara Syniava
(Stara Sieniawa)
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" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 851.
Staro Konstantinov
(Old Constantine aka Novokonstantin) [New Constantine])
A city in
Volynska Oblast and is about 80 miles from Zhitomir. It was an important Jewish center, it produced a number of scholars, and it was an important center of Chasidism.
A description of what a flour mill operation run by Jews was like in
Russia in the early 1900s was discussed by JWeintraub@FULLERTON.EDU on JewishGen 11-19-02
here is an excellent site for further information about this old Jewish village located near the Carpathian mountains. It was once part of Romania(Bukovina). The site offers old pictures of the Rigler family
and pictures of what the town looks like now http://www.geocities.com/storojinet
Strels'k
(Polish: Strzeliska Nowe, now known as Novyye
Strelishcha, Ukraine, Strel'sk, Stril's'k)
Located 50 km SE
of L'viv in what used to be known as Bobrka county. There is
also a small town called Strel'sk northeast of L'vov and close
to the Belarus border and still another one (Strelsk) located
near Kiev and in the Volhyn Province. It is a few kilometers
north of Sarny, Ukraine, and about 75 km north of Rivne, Ukraine.
First mentioned in 1578. The name come from Ukrainian word "stryhty" - to cut (usually hair, to make a haircut or to cut something with scissors) Village shop in Stryhantsi, tel.: +380 3548 31183 Village club in Stryhantsi, tel.: +380 3548 31187 http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/zemla.htm
Stryy (G) (Stryj-Polish; Stryi, Stryia and Stry)
Located in
Western Ukraine (formerly Eastern Galicia) about 40 miles south ofL'viv. A Jewish community has been in existence since the late 1500s. In 1772 the town became part of theAustrian Empire. At that time there were abut 440 Jewish families. It became a part of
Poland after WW I. In 1921 there were 10,988 and about 12,000 in 1939. For information, maps and book resources http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/stryy/
"Sefer Stryj" (Book of Stryj);
"Extermination of the Jews of Stryj and Vicinity" (Emergence of Genocide in Galiciaand Resettlement Transports to Belzec Extermination Camp); "The Town of Stryj Without Jews" (Memoir of Schaje Schmerier); "Schupo-Kriegsverbrecher von Stryj vor dem Wiener Volksgericht" (The Protective Police War Criminals of Stryj Tried By the People's Court) 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
A shtetl and a region that is 226 miles west southwest of
Kiev and was a part of Galicia. Within a 25 mile radius are
Buchach, Khorostkov, Chortkov and Husiaty. To the northwest, is the
Poland border and to the south is the Romania border. There is much to learn from this site http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/ SuchostavRegion/SRRGhome.html
Strzalkowce (now Stshalkoytse) about four miles from Borshchev.
Suceava County - located in the southern half of the area formerly known as Bukovina. The northern portion of Bukovina is now part of the Ukraine. This site includes maps http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/suceava/suceava.htm
Talnoye
(Tolna, Tulna, Talno)
Sign indicating Talnoye -
photo taken by Ted Margulis
The former Yiddish name is
Tolna -107.3 miles South and West of
Kievand today is in theCherkassy Region. It is 38 km northeast of
Uman.
Click here for photos and a brief story about the town - located in
Kiev oblast. In 1847 there were 1,807 Jews and by 1897 their number reached 5,452 (57% of the total population). Before WW II, there were 4,169 Jews. Most of the records (1884-1848) for
Uman and possiblyTalnoye, (it has been reported), are in the State Archives of
Cherkassy Oblast.
Tal'ne in Ukrainian, or Tal'noye in
Russian, is in the former Kiev Guberniya between Uman
and Zvenigorodka. This URL should produce a map showing both
Ostropol' and Tal'noye, so you can see that Tal'noyewas perhaps a few hundred miles from
Ostropol'. http://tinyurl.com/6muhzh
During the 19th century, Rabbi David Twersky lived in
Talnoye. Thousands of Chasidim in Ukraineadhered to Twersky and subsequently to his sons. The melodies of the Chazzan of the Chasidic Court, Rabbi Yossele Tolner, became popular among the masses in
Russia and Poland.
The Twersky Rabbinical line comes from
Talnoye. Rabbi Y. Twersky, Talner Congregation, 64 Corey Road, Brookline, Mass. 02146 and Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Mass 02138.
In the 1938 census there were 12,000 Jews and today the town population is around 60,000 with one or two Jews left. A survey of the town, by Irene Silfin in 1997, is located at http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/e-europe/ukra-t.html
The Mayor's office is at v1 Lenine 28, 2nd floor, 258730 Talnoye, UK
The city suffered severely from bands of peasants who ravaged the region in 1919-20. The soldiers of the White Army who passed through
Talnoye during the summer of 1919 rioted and burnt down a large part of the city. In 1926 there were 4,169 Jews (39% of the population). The Jewish settlement was destroyed after the region was taken by the Nazis in 1941. The Jews were led out of the town believing they were going to board a ship to take them to
Palestine. There is a memorial at the place where they were all machine gunned down and dumped into a mass grave, just outside of town.
Talnoye - Personally visited by Ted & Shirley Margulis in August, 1994.
The Mayor, at the time, said that they were the first American Jews to ever
had visited the town. There are just a few older Jews still living in this farm area although there are several younger people who do not claim to be Jewish,
but most likely are. During the 1930s, an archeological dig discovered a very early settlement just outside of the shtetl and there is the "Castle" now used as a Town Museum that hold many artifacts from the past years.
The cemetery is located on the outskirts of the city, about 38 km northeast of
Uman, and is in the Kiev Oblast. The site is reached by turning directly off a public road. Access is open to all with no wall, fence or gate surrounding the area. The cemetery is many hectares. Five gravestones are in their original location, but many are in the new section. Most are buried beneath earth and grass. Vegetation is a problem in the newer parts of the cemetery. The granite finely smoothed and inscribed stones or double tombstones, some with portraits on the stones, are inscribed in Yiddish and Russian/Ukrainian. Irene Silfin visited the town in July, 1995. http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/e-europe/ukra-t.html
A typical 19th century kitchen as depicted in the Museum in Talnoye. Photo taken by Ted Margulis in August, 1994
The lone synagogue in
Talnoye is in major disrepair and the original Jewish cemetery has been paved over as a playground for a public school today. The original tombstones have been used as paving materials although some can still be seen lying on the hillside that leads to the nearby river.
Just outside of the shtetl is a mass grave, marked by two small stone pyramids The plaques attached indicates that 5,871 Jews were murdered by the Fascists in August, 1941. What happened was that the German Einsatzgruppen Group C herded the Jews of the town, and surrounding areas, after telling them they would be walking to
Odessa to board a ship to Palestine. As they approached this site, German machine gunners mowed them down.
Today,
Talnoye is in the Cherkassy Region. Kiev Guberniya was broken up into several different Regions when the Soviets took over."
"Memoirs of Mischa Elman's Father" - out of print but written in 1933 and may be available from a public library. Mischa left
Talnoyeas a young boy and after his conservatory studies, went to
London and then to the U.S.
The Margulis Saga - an inspiring story of how I was able to successfully locate my half brother's son who was born in
Kerch, Crimeaand moved to Siberiaduring WW II, and who now lives inMelbourne, Australia with his wife Lana and son.
My half brother and my father were
born and raised in Talnoye
Click Here to read the story of how we found each other after using the web and the International Red Cross to do the search.
"So
where there was that forest there was a road so they were brought here.
There was not a field here, there were the ravines here. On the
16th of August they were unloaded from these wagons here. The
Germans stood with their machine guns on the small hill here and the
others were standing on the other hill so they were shooting people from
two sides. It was early in the morning and until late in the
evening. That's why I didn't believe when people say that there
were two thousand people here because of course more were killed here.
The people from this neighboring village of Belashe tell that the
earth was moving here nearly for five days and even some children were
saved. People who lived in the next village, Belashive,
they came at night here and tried to save some children who were still
alive. And two women who live now in Vladisvastock, they
came here and they were two of these children who were saved and they
were just taken off this ravine and when we looked we saw that there
were bodies were from this monument to that one. There is another
monument there to mark this collective tomb. And we even wanted to
take this strip of land and to make a memorial complex but until this
time we have not been allowed to do this."
"So this
is the tragedy which happened here. [Reading from memorial] The Eternal
memory of victims of fascism 16th August 1941. And if you look in
that direction you can just see there is on the horizon the village of
Belashe and behind that village there was a field on which Hitler and
Mussolini were on this military parade just on the same day when people
were being shot here. They were Italian military detachment here and
they took the victory parade on that field behind the village there.
I want to make people know that a definite number of those were shot
here because until this time the truth is not open for everybody.
When I wrote to the court, because I had an opportunity to address him
through the German embassy, the German Side recognized that the real
amount of those who were killed here was 6,000. And you know that they
are not so easy to agree and but if they recognize that figure in
response to be truth.
This
road was built in the 50's. It was laid down and it was even an
attempt to lay this road just on the places of these the memorials.
So there were even efforts made by the people who lived here at this
time to stop them [from building the road over the memorial]. And this
is the second memorial. The second place. So they were
shooting from that place to this place."
The above was typed in
exactly as my friend Mila Begun (of blessed memory) had sent it to me
before here death. Unfortunately I do not know who the person was
that wrote the above, but having been the first American Jew to visit
the site, I can attest to the facts as they were explained to my wife
and I by the former Mayor Polisheck.
Tarasha (Tarasche)
Located about 1.5 hour drive southwest of Kiev. There is remnants of a Jewish cemetery with the oldest stone dated 1892, though the majority of those stones prior to WW II were bulldozed or overgrown with vines. Jacqueline Garrick visited the cemetery in 2003: 301 942 8817 http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/e-europe/ukra-t.html
In 1891, 12 year
old Boris Thomasefsky arrived in New York City from this shtetl.
He had a beautiful voice and on Saturdays, young Boris earned money by
singing at the Henry Street Synagogue on the Lower East Side.
During the week he worked as a cigarette maker in a sweatshop where he heard
his fellow workers sings songs from the Yiddish theater they had attended in
the "old country". At age 13 he became producer and director of
a traveling company presenting a wide repertoire of Yiddish plays. He
and his wife Bessie became the most famous Yiddish theater impresarios.
Tarashcha (Tarasca in Yiddish; Tarashtcha in Germanand Trarsza in Polish)
Located 122 km from
Kiev and has a town population of somewhere between 5,000 and 25,000 with between 11 to 100 Jews. Jews from here were buried in a mass grave at
Medvin during the Holocaust.
Located in the
Tarnopol province. In 1921, it had 571 people with 148 of them being Jewish. It is located southeast from
Tarnopol Podvolochisk (Polish: Podwololyczyska) and is on the border of the Zbruch River between
Satanov and Podvolochisk and 10 miles south of Podvolochisk. It is a historical border town dividing
Poland from Soviet Union in the interwar period. During this same period, the town was under the town of
Skalat administration. Further information can be found in the Archives of the
Gesher Galicia SIG. http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/ SuchostavRegion/sl_tarnoruda.htm
Located near
Kiev.The
Jewish
Cemetery in this shtetl is in poor condition and contains many mass graves.
Terebovlia
(Terebovlya)(G)-
(see Trembowla)
It was once a part of Galicia.
You can find a map of Trembowla (Terebovlia) district or province at the US
Library of Congress Map and Geography Division http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/
From 1772 to 1919, it was in
Austria's Galizien Crownland (Galicia) During this time it's name was spelledTarnopol. Prior to that it was in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. From the end of WW I to 1939 it was inPolandand was spelled Tarnopol. Then it was in theSoviet Ukraineand nowUkraine.During the Soviet era it was spelledTernopol, now it is spelledTernopil.(see Tarnopol, Ternopol, Tarnopol, Tarnopolu) - photos, history and a monument athttp://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm
There are/were about 400 Jews living in the
area in 2005. David Feinstein is considered the head of the Jewish Community
of Ternopil Oblast.
Ternopol Oblast Archives - State Archives of Ternopol Oblast, Ukraine, Derzhavnyi Arkhiv Ternopilskoi Oblasti, 282000, Ternopol, vul. Sahaidachnoho 14, Ukraina. Derzhavnyi Arkhiv Ternopilskoi Oblasti Director is Bogdan Khavarivsky. Phone (0352) 224495 Fax: (0352) 228618
Located 70 miles south southwest of
Kiev and near Belaya Tserkov, a larger town. In the Kiev Guberniya. It is most noted as the scene of a massacre in 1920 that left about 5,000 dead. a new site contains extensive information about this time including the history of
Tetieveremigrant organizations, death and survivor lists, photographs http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/tetiev/tetiev.htm
Tomashpol - 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.
"I have been getting mail from people who are searching for people from Tulchin in
Vinnitsaprovince. If you are interested I will be most willing to share with you. I am looking for FEINSTEIN,MALAMUD, YABLIK, SCHMULENSON, MARSHAFSKY, BECKER and WEISSMAN any help will be appreciated. Sholom Esther Feinstein Sackheim ZeraKodesh@aol.com
A wide angle view, found in a brochure, of the main street of
Uman
Uman
Located 115.9 miles South of Kiev - half way between Kiev and Odessa, it is also the burial place of Rabbi Nachman of
Breslov. (It was known also as 'Koliivshchyna') Each anniversary of his death, Chasidic members of his clan converge on this town.
Umanis the largest town nearest to Talnoye, my father's shtetl. The 1848-1884 records are in
Kiev Historical Archives.
There are at
least two Jewish cemeteries - one old and one fairly new.
This town was
once located inHungary, but now is inUkraine.It is about 15 milesESE fromUngvar
Ushitsa - Nova Ushitsa (New Ushitsa)
Also known as
Ushitsa and Oyshits in Podolia region at 4850 2717. This town is located on the Dniester River and it had population of close to 2000 Jewish souls prior to WWII . Near by (some 18 miles apart)
Staraya Ushitsa (Old Ushitsa) at 4835 2706 had also a sizeable Jewish population of close to 1000 souls. "Ushitser" describes in Yiddish a man from Ushitsa.
Located in
Volhyn Guberniya and is fairly close to Vladmir-Volynsk, the capital of
Volhynia. Zhitomir was the capitol 100 years ago.
Ustye
Formerly known as Uscie Biskupie when located in Galicia. Thee was a
Landsmanshaftn Society for this town that was called "First Uscie-Biskupier
Unterstuetzungs Verein". It was located at 14 E. 28th St. New York, NY
10016. Peter Haas has some information: phaas2@comcast.net
It is a
Raion or district administrative center and about 10 km northwest of the city of
Ternopil in the Ternopil oblast. It means "Greater Hlubichok"
Velikiye Mosty -(Gross Moster)
Formerly in
Galicia, Austria-Hungary and now in Ukraine - 28.4 miles NNE of
L'viv. "Most'" means bridge in Russian, and the plural is Mosty. "Gross" means big in
German. Velikiye Mosty means big bridges in Russian, and the Ukrainian version of the name should be similar.
Located near Chernivtsi. For Jewish records, contact the Chernivetska Oblast Archives.
Vilyavche - (Vilyavtsy)
It has retained their name. Village is located at 4820 2522, West of Snyatyn and Chernivtsi in Bukovina region of
Ukraine.Korytnoye is adjacent to Vilyaviche - village is situated less than one mile distance to the East.
WOWW gazetteer identifies village as having prewar population of 320 Jewish souls. It also indicates that
Vilyavche alternative name was Vilauchea. It was common for localities within
Bukovina and Bessarabia (Moldova) regions to have Russian/Ukrainian/Romanian names.
Willawczer is Yiddish - a variations or rather it is associated with the "Willawchers" Landsmanshaftn folks from
Vilyaviche
Vinkovtsy
Located in the
Khmelnitsky Oblast.
Vinniki
"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
Vinnitsa (Vinnytsya, Vizhnitsa,
Vinnitza)
Located in
Vinnytska Oblast, the Podolskaya Guberniyaand is in an area west of
Kiev Guberniya. The Vishnitzer Hasidic Dynasty began here. They are still in Israel and New York. http://ddickerson.igc.org/podolia-vrjc.html
Story of the killing of "The Last Jew of
Vinnitza" 28,000 Jews from the city and surrounding area were shot on
that day by the Einsatzkommando. You need to watch several photos
preceding this one picture and listen to a Glen Miller song.
http://www.kimel.net/Ukraine.html
Located in the Carpathian Mountain, now in the
Ukraine, but previously it was part of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Links connect to maps, family memoirs, pictures and links to other Carpathian Jewish sites. Webmaster is Karin Wandrei kwandrei@pacific.net http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Verkhnyaya_Bystra/
A Russian Guberniya until 1917. Polish province of Wolyn between WW I and II. Today, it is located in northwestern Ukraine. Zhitomir is the main city. http://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine/Volhynia/
Volokhskiye Makharintsy [voloh skee yeh mah kah reen tsee]
Located near Kazatin,the matzo soup belt between the Vinitza and
Zhitomir. Town coordinates are: 4943 2855
Volvograd
(formerly known as Stalingrad)
"Stalingrad: The Movie and the Reality" - the latest historical event to get the full Hollywood treatment. Battle of Stalingrad, the massive 1942 struggle between the
Germans and the Russians. It was the biggest battle ever of land forces. The fighting went on for months, millions were killed and wounded and the city was reduced to rubble. The
Russians won.
This battle, more than any other single factor, spelled doom for the third Reich. My half-brother, Moshe, fought at this battle and today, I am the proud possessor of some of the medals he earned from this terrible experience. http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/03 /28/stalingrad/index.html
Volyn (Lutsk) and
Rivne oblasts
Were under
Poland domination between the Wars. Zhitomir oblast was part of USSR. In 1925 it was
Wolenska Guberniya and a part of Poland. Wolinsky and Padolsk are the adjectival forms of
Wolyn (Volhynia) and Podolia. It is located in the northwestern
Ukraine. Zhitomir is the main city. Information about the city and the area can be found at http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0851120.html
The town was
visited by Ron Doctor where he discovered a new building had been erected
over the gravesites of two rabbis. a man named "Moishe" from
New York paid for the construction. Three weeks before his visit,
the workmen, on their own initiative, retrieved 25 Matzevot that had been
thrown into the river by the Soviets during communist rule.
There are records available in the
Ukrainian Archives. This town is mentioned in "The
Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock http://home.earthlink.net/~dchapin/
Yaruga
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.
Previously known asStalinoin the mid '30s and renamed Donetsk. See
Donetsk for
further information. A map of this mining area can be found at www.mapquest.com
A town on the Seret river and about 20 miles northwest of
Ternopol. It is in Zvoriv Guberniya. Before the war, it had a population of about 6,350 which included 850 Jews.
There is a brief description of the town and its way of life in the 19th century in the first chapter of "The Promised Land: Memoirs of Shmuel Dayan", edited by Yael Dayan. (London: Routledge, 1961) She transliterates the name of the town as
Djeskev. From a posting by Ida Selavan Schwarcz Arad, Israel
Zhitomir (Zhytomyr, Jitomir, Shitomir/Zhytomyr, Zhytomir)- (there are at least 28 different spellings for the name of this city)
A city in and is the center for the administrative center in
Ukraine. It is located 103 miles (165 km) in Zhytomyrska Oblast (Bogunskiy Raion) 82.5 miles west of
Kiev on the Teterev River.
In 1793 it belonged to
Russia. The population as of 1989 was 292,000. The Zhitomir Oblast borders on the north with
Belarus; on the east by the Kiev Oblast; on the south by the
Vinnitsa Oblast and on the west by the Khmelnytsky and Rovno Oblasts. The total population in 1989 for the
entire Oblast was 1,545,000.
Founded in 884.
Zhyto means rye. A database of records is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained at http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/
The Central State Historical, The State Administration Archives of Ukraine of Zhitomir District, the Main Administration of Ukraine, Department of Information, Papakin, G.V., The State Historical Archives of Zhitomir District, 262014 City of Zhitomir, 2 Ohrimova Hora Street #20, Director: V. A. Poplavska
In an e-mail dated 8/13/1997, Anton S. Valdine geneal@glasnet.ru offered the contact name of Epfim Melamed of this city as alex0polesye.zhitomir.ua This information about Mr. Melamed was mentioned originally in a previous issue of Avotaynu
Map of Zhytomir in the early part of the Twentieth Century Don't be discouraged as the site is in both Cyrillic and English http://www.city.sumy.ua/history/book.html
Zhovkva - (Zolkiew, Zholkva in Yiddish, Nesterov during the Soviet era, and Zolkiew in Polish)
It is about
twenty miles north of Lemberg (L'viv and L'vov). It was a
former artists' colony. Jews settled here at the end of the 16th
century. A synagogue, built in 1700 and one of the largest in Galicia, still stands in this village.
The pink Renaissance-style exterior and some inner frescoes and the Ark have
survived and now sits empty. Vital records for Zhoukva and the surrounding towns are held at the AGAD archive. http://home.earthlink.net/~brians99/zolkiewhome.html
Located in the
Tarnopol Province, Galicia - currently known as Zolochiv, Ternopil Oblast.
Znesen'ye
Records of this village, which was before 1918 in
Galicia, Austria between 1918 to 1939 in Polandare kept mostly in
Warsaw and some inL'viv. Further information can be found in
"Find Your Jewish Roots in Galicia" - authored by Suzan F. Wynne.
Located in
Letichev Uyezd. 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" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 522.
Before you think of traveling to another country or city, use my link to Amazon.com where you will find books and CDs relating to researching a country, city or subject relating to researching one's Jewish roots by clicking here > Jewish Genealogy
There are two types of suitable Visas: Tourist - this visa application must include a travel itinerary prepared by a travel agency. Private - where you do not use a travel agency, but in both cases you must be registered with the local police and/or with a hotel you stay at.
Slava, a guide-interpreter (English, French, Arabic, Persian and Russian) offers both these services plus handling accommodations in
Kiev. Phone +380 44 4931377
There is a very well done interactive
route planner devised by a group in Holland called Route 66. By typing in the starting points and the destinations, according to the way they are spelled in the program, the program will display the total distance in kilometers, expected travel time; and a lot more http://www.brama.com/travel/route.html
The Internet Bar, located adjacent to the Sports Palace and the Olympic Stadium is directly behind the
Hotel Rus. Charges are 7 grv for the 1st hour and 6 grv per hour after that in 15 minute segments. It is a 24/7 business with an
English speaking attendant on duty at all times. The computers are new; the baud rate is 56K and they are setup in either
Cyrillic or English.
Kiev Hotels
Hotel Andrievsky (Andrews) is located on Andrievsky Spusk. It is about $40 a night for two, clean with a clean shower in the room, along with a TV. Within walking distance of most of the downtown sights.
Hotel Express- a report indicates that this is not a luxury hotel, but it was spotlessly clean, including the bathroom for $13.00 a night. The only reported drawback was that the shower was on a different floor. About a 15 minute walk straight out the doors of the train station and close to a metro station. See also my 'Traveling Roots'
Offers various travel assistance programs and is located in
Kiev. This service has clean, modern private apartments in downtown
Kiev renting for about $30 a night; and offers these other services: airport transportation; guide-interpreter in both English and French; airline and train transportation arrangements and much more. Oksana is also working on developing a staff to work with the various
Ukrainian Archives. He can be contacted via e-mail at oksana@trav.kiev.ua
"Personal Experience of
Traveling Ukraine and Crimea"
and select
About Us or go directly to this site if you are looking for a translation service; hotel booking service; Invitation service and a
mailing service, where you will find a price list of these, and other services available if you scroll down further. The site is apparently owned by the person who owns the cafe. https://www.multicards.com/600470/order.htm
There are other
Ukrainian links at this site that may also be of interest. Consider also joining
Ukrainian Travel - a web discussion community relating to traveling in
Ukraine --- Subscribe UkrainianTravel-subscribe@onelist.com or a shortcut
Try thislistif you plan on traveling to Ukraine. This list is comprised of
Ukrainians living in Ukraine who can offer advise and accommodations. http://www.onelist.com/community/UkrainianTravel
Ukrainian Travel
Included at this web site are today's weather and forecasts for
Kharkiv, Kyiv, L'viv and Odessa; an alphabetical list of Ukrainian cities with their city codes; visa information, travel agencies, Ukrainian Fact Book, travel tips, useful phrases and a conversion chart for clothing sizes, currency information and a currency converter http://pages.prodigy.net/l.hodges/ukraine.htm
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Books
Maps
Berezhany 
Shirley Margulis and the Jewish Secretary of the Kharkov Synagogue.
"L'viv Sightseeing Guide" - a nicely organized publication with maps, including separate sections dealing with museums and cemeteries.
Odessa Train Station
A map is available at 
Sign indicating Talnoye -
photo taken by Ted Margulis
