Ukrainian       
Cities and Shtetls  

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History of the Jews of Ukraine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Ukraine

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/ukraine.html

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

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

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

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

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

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    
          

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

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

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

"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

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

"Spisok Naselennikh Mest Kienskoy Gubernii"

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

   Maps 

Click here for additional Ukrainian maps

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

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

Guberniyas
Divided into Uyezds (districts) (a corrupted word for the old Russian district - it should read: Uyezd [ooh yeh zd],  then into Volosts which are similar to counties.

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

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

A complete map of all of the Oblasts and Regions of Ukraine http://www.freenet.kiev.ua/ISD/ABOUTUKR/ukroblst.htm 

and a detail map of that area.  In English.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ukrwgw/oblastclickmap.html  

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

Belz (See Polish Shtetls)

Berdichev (Berdychiv, Berdichiv, Berdiciv, Berdychiv)

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

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

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. Moshe, my half brother, was a decorated hero having fought at Stalingrad.  He died in Berdichev five years before I had found out that this is where he had retired to after WW II.

Books  
          

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Berdichev-L Archives
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BERDICHEV/2000-09/0969208347 

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

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

Berdyansk (Berdiansk, Berdyansi'k)

Holocaust
There is a Holocaust Memorial outside of the town. 

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

Books
        

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

Beregovo

Berets

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

Berezhany

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

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

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

Yizkor Book
"Brezezany, Narajow ve-ha-Seviva; Toldot Kehillot she-Nehrevu"
(Brzezany Memorial Book) 
There are 1,269 entries
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Yizkor

The JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database indexes the names of persons in the necrologies -- the lists of Holocaust martyrs -- published in the Yizkor Books appearing on the Yizkor Book Project site at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html 

This database is only an index of names; it directs researchers back to the Yizkor Book itself, where more complete information may be available. This database currently contains over 186,000 entries from the necrologies of 210 different Yizkor Books.

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

Berezovka (Beresovka, Berezovke, Berozovka)

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

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

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

Bershad

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

Books  
          

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

Bialoholovy (Bialoglowy - Poland)

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

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

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

Bihali / Bihale area

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

Bila Tserkva (Belaya Tserkov)

A number of Bila Tserkva web sites (some in English). Preceding the Russian Revolution and until the 1930s, there was a significant Jewish community in Bila Tserkva. Some of them were driven out by Cossacks and Tzarist policies. Many were driven out in the Stalinist purges. Most remnants were destroyed during the Holocaust and other losses during the World War II.
http://ukrainetrek.com/bila_tserkva-city
 
Cemetery
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/ukraine/bila-tserkva-kiev.html

Bistra

Located in northeast of Horinchovo.  Verovyna-Bystra is near the headwater of the San river.
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Maramures/mar455.html

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

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

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

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

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

Postcards
Contact is Beverly Shulster bevshul@gmail.com Beverly has a picture postcard entitled "Rynek w Bobree" and a picture of the local market in the town where her father was born.

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

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

Bogopol   (Pervomaysk)

It is located near the Bug River.  Bogopol, Olviopol, and Golta were merged into the city of Pervomaysk in 1919.
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~shtetm~-1050242

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

Boguslav (Boslov)

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

Regional Special Interest Groups
Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html
 
http://www.mrt5.com/boguslav/boguslav.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

www.bolechow.org/

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

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

Research
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 

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

Bolshiye Mosty (Velikiye Mosty)

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

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

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

Bolshovtsy

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

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

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

Borislav (G) (Boryslaw, Borislaw)

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

A Jew, Abraham Schreiner, who owned land in the area, discovered a "greasy, tarry secretion" known as ozokerite and which later made the area well-known for its crude oil production.

Cemetery
There is a Jewish cemetery in existence for the past 200 years.  More information about the cemetery can be obtained from William Fern Whfern@aol.com  

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

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

Research
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 

http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Drohobycz/dro171.html

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

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

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

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

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

Borshchovichi

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

Borynychi

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

Boryspil

Borzna

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

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

Bosivka (Bosovka)

Located 106.3 miles south southwest of Kiev

Boyarka

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

Breslov

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

http://www.breslov.com/en/index.php/The_Breslov_Directory

Brody (G)

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

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

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

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

Yizkor Book 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

Broshnev

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

Brovary

Bryanka

Bryansk

Had a Jewish presence and does have an Archive

Buchach (G) (Bucac, Buczacz)  

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

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

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

Yizkor Book
The table of contents of Sefer Buczacz has been translated into English and is available
http://www.jewishgen.org//yizkor/  

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

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

Buczacz

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

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

Budanov (G)

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

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

Bukachevtsy (Bukaczowce) Galicia

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

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

Bun'kovychi

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

Maps

http://lemko.org/maps100/Pages/Pg66.html 

Burakuvla (G)

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

Burshtyn

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

Bushchyno (Bushtyna, Bushtino)

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

Busk (G)

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

Butsnevtsy (Butsni)

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

Chelguzov

186.9 miles west of Kiev and located in the Khmelnytska oblast

Cemeryntsi

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

Cesanyky (Czesniki in Polish)

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

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

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

Chelmniecki 

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

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

Chemerovitz - (Chernerovtsy, or Czemerowce)

Located near Kamenets-Podol'sk

Chernihiv (Chernigov)

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

Archive
Contains Jewish records including records from surrounding towns.

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

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

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

Cherkassy (Cherkassy, Cherkoss, Czerkasy)

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

   Maps

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

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

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

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

Cherkaska Oblast Ukraine
Queries from those researching this Oblast.

Chernivtsi (Chernowitz)

Located in Chernivetska Oblast is in eastern Ukraine. 

Archive
Chernivtsi - has an Oblast archive
http://www.huri.harvard.edu/abb_grimsted/O-5.html

Books  
            

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

Research
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. 

Maps

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

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

Chernobyl (Chornobyl)

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

Chernorudka

A small village located on the edge of Berdichev

Chervonoe

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

Chervonoarmeisk (Chervonoarmiis'ke, Radzivylov)

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

Chervonograd  (Cervonograd, Chervonohrad)

Chmil'nyk (Chmielnik)

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

Chop

Located in Uzhhorods'kyi Raion, Zakarpats'ka Oblast

Chopovichi

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

Chorostkow (Khorostkiv, Khorostkov, Chorostkov)

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

Chortkov (G) (Chortkiv)

Located south of Terebovlya.

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

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

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

Crimea

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

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

Czernowitz (Chernovitsy) - (see also Chemerovitz) 

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

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

Books
        

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

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

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

Research
http://czernowitz.blogspot.com/2008/11/directory-for-czernowitz-and-its.html

Chernivetska Oblast Records
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukrwgw/cherni/chernirecords.htm

Dashiev (Dosha)

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

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

Dbuosary

There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives

Debeslavtsi

Southeast of Kolomyia. 

  Map

A map is available at
http://www.mapquest.com/ 

Debno

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

Dedilov

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

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

268.2 miles WSW of Kyyiv 

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

http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~shtetlexp5

Delyatin (including Dora and Lanchin) (G)

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

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

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

Derazhnia

Books  
           

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

Dervenia  

   Maps

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

Dnepropetrovsk

Jewish Community
http://www.fjc.ru/news/archives.asp

Dobromil

Dobromil was once in Austria, then Galicia and now in Ukraine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobromil

http://www.traveljournals.net/stories/17630.html

Dolina (Galicia)

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

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

Yizkor Book
translations.html

Dolzanka

Located in the Tarnopol District

Drogobych (Drohobitch) (Galicia)

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

Dzigovka

Books  
           

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

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

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

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

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

http://gorod.dp.ua/index_e.php">http://gorod.dp.ua/index_e.

Archives (State) of the Dniepropetrovsk Region
The page and its contents are in PDF file style
http://www.nato.int/acad/fellow/95-97/pidgajet.pdf

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

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

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

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

Records
A database of records
http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/ 

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

Dobromil

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

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

Dolina (G) (Dolena, Dolyna)

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

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

Donetsk (G) (Yozuvka, Stalino)

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.

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

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

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

Dniprodzerzhyns'k

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

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

There are approximately 400 or so Jews still living in this town
http://www.britannica.com/seo/d/drohobych/ 

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

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

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

Cemetery lists

Holocaust
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 

Photographs

Additional information at my Ukrainian web page by clicking here Ukraine

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

Research
1929 Business Directory of Poland
Pre-war telephone books;
L'viv oblast in western Ukraine. About 25,200 vital records are available at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw and indexed by JRI-Poland:  

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

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

Town information
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 

Synagogue 
http://members.tripod.com/~mikerosenzweig/polsynagog.htm  

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

Druzhikivka (Druzhkovka)

http://www.jewnet.ru/eng/orgs/?region_id=85&profile_id=8&corp_id=0&action=search

Travel
http://www.travelpost.com/EU/Ukraine/Donetsk/Druzhkovka/2399480

Druzhkopol

Located in the Volhynia Guberniya

http://jewage.org/wiki/en/Special:MainPage

Discussion Forum
http://genforum.genealogy.com/ukraine/messages/5044.html

Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/druzhkopol/dru082.html

Dubie

Dubie is a village (Selo) in Brodivsk Raion, L'viv Oblast in western Ukraine. Located about 12 km south of Brody and had more than 2,000 residences. From 1918 to 1939 the village was in Tarnopol Voivodeship in Poland. Dubie (Dubye) is part of the Yaseniv rural council (bigger Yaseniv). The village had 337 inhabitable buildings and 2000 inhabitants, majority of the populace was Rusin (Ukrainian). The Polish populace was 180 and there were 25 Jews.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubie,_Lviv_Oblast

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

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

Ellis Island Passenger List from Dubie
http://www.ellisisland.org/search/ship_passengers.asp?letter=m&half=1&sname=Main&year=1910&sdate=02/14/1910&port=Bremen&page=1

Dubno

1939 Jewish population (census) was 5315. 

Cemetery
The landmarked Jewish cemetery was established in 1942. No other towns or villages used this cemetery. The suburban agricultural flat land, separate but near other cemeteries, has no sign or marker.
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/ukraine/dubno.html

Yizkor Book
There are 1,562 entries
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Yizkor

The JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database indexes the names of persons in the necrologies -- the lists of Holocaust martyrs -- published in the Yizkor Books appearing on the Yizkor Book Project site at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html 

This database is only an index of names; it directs researchers back to the Yizkor Book itself, where more complete information may be available. This database currently contains over 186,000 entries from the necrologies of 210 different Yizkor Books.

Dunaevtsy (Dunaivtsi)

Books  
           

"The Road from Letichev"
Authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock
http://home.earthlink.net/~dchapin/ 

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

Dymytrov (Dimitrov)

Dzerzhynsk

Dzhankoy

Ekaterinapol - see Katerinapol

Ekaterinoslav

Yizkor Book
Hillary Henkin has a copy of the Yizkor book Email: hilary@mymishpocha.net

Elizabethgrad (Kirovohrad)

Pogrom
There was a pogrom here in 1905

Energodar

Fakshtin

Records
There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives

Fastov (Fastiv)

Located 37 miles southwest of Kiev.

Felshtin (Gvardeyskoye)

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

www.west.net/~jazz/felshtin/

Books  
          

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

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

Yizkor book
A Yizkor book was published in New York in 1937.This is a well documented web site. Offers links to a Yizkor Book; Documents and a Newsletter of the Felshtin Society 
http://www.west.net/~jazz/felshtin/biblio.html 

Feodosia (Feodosiya)

Founded by the Greeks on the Black Sea. 

Gadyach

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

Galych - (Galich)

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

Gaspra

Gaysin

Books  
           

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, check out my Russian Empire page

Glinivce - (pronounced Hlinivce in Ukrainian)

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

Glinyany

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

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

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

Cemetery
JewishGen cemeteries project spells it Holovanevsk.

Golta

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

Gorky (City of ) (Nizhniy Novgorod)

Known in the past and again presently as Nizhniy Novgorod.

Gorlice, Poland

Contact: Marjorie Rosenfeld e-mail marjorie.rosenfeld@cwix.com 

Research
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/gorlice/gorlice.htm 

Gorlivka

A number of Gorlivka web sites (some in English)

Gorodek Jagiellonski

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

Gorodenka (G) (Horokenka)

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

Books  
           

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

"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 

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

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

Research
This site has a list of the types of records available, a surname index for some of the records and estimated costs.
http://www.JewishGen.org/JewishGen-erosity/YizkorTrans.html 

Yizkor Book
Table of Contents and Necrology
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Yizkor/

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

Gorodishche

Located south of Kiev and near Shpola

Gorodnitsa (G)

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

Gorodok (Horodok, Grodek Jagiellonski) (G)

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

   Maps

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

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

Research
There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives.
www.mapblast.com  

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

Gorokhov (Horchiv, Horchow)

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

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

Grebinki

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

Grimaylov (G)

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

Gritsev

Located about eight miles from Labun

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

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

Gurzuph

Gusyatin (G) - (Husiatyn) (Galicia)

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

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

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

Gvardeyskoye (Felshtin)

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

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

Halies (Halicz, Gallich)

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

Hliboka

Located South of Cernovcy. 

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

Hlubichok

Located in the rayon or district of Borshchiw and in the southern part of the Ternopil oblast.

Horodenko (Gorodenko)

Hotin - (Khotyin, Chotin)

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Hotin/hotin.html 

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

Hryniv - (Polish = Hrynio'w, Gryniv)

Located near Bobrka.  May also be spelled Gryniv. 

  Maps

A map of this village can help. 
www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/ia_free?width=500&height=300&level=5&lat=497000&lng=  

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

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

Husiatyn (Gusiatyn, Gusyatyn, Gusyatin, 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. 

 Iasin

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

Holocaust
Photo is of  German soldiers killing Jewish residents.
http://www.bigmeathammer.com/aushwitz13.htm

Illichivsk

A port city in the Odessa Oblast
 http://www.jokisaari.net/odessa/odessainfo.html

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

Located in the Ivan-Frankivska Oblast. It was a large city of more than 100,000 residents, including a thriving Jewish community of 25 to 30,000 Jews. It is located about 85 miles south of L'vov, and is a city of about 200,000.  It was named after the famous Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko.  It is the major gateway to the Carpathian Mountains. This Oblast was once called Stanislaviv (Stanislau in the 1930s). 
http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/

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

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

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

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

   Maps

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Izluchistoye (Stalinskoye, Stalindorf)

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

Izmail

An Izmail web site is located at
http://www.chabad.org/centers/default_cdo/aid/249597/jewish/Jewish-Community-of-Izmail.htm 

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

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

Izrailovka

Located 530 km to the west of Ekaterinoslav.

Izyaslav  (Iziaslav)

Located in the Khmel'nyts'ka Oblast.

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

Izyum

Jagielnica (G)

formerly in Galicia
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/SuchostavRegion/sl_jagielnica.htm

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

Justingrad - (see Sokolovka)

Kalinovka

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

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

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

    Maps
Excellent color map in Latin characters
http://lemko.org/maps100/Pages/Pg102.html  

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

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

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

Books  
          

"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/

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

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

Kalyus (Kalius)

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

Kamen Kashirskiy (Kamen Kashyrsky)

   Map

http://mrheckman.com/kk/

Yizkor Book
http://www.tisharon.org/Remember/Communities/Kamin.htm

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

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

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

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

Books  
           

"The Road from Letichev"
Authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock
http://home.earthlink.net/~dchapin/ 

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

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

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

Regional Special Interest Groups
Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG - Contact Judith Sharon
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

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

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

Fond 226 holds records of the  Podolia State Chamber

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

Kamenka (G)

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

Kamenopol

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

Kamionka Bugskay (Kamionka Strumilowa)

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

Kaniv

Kariukovke

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

Katerinapol (Ekaterinapol, Kalniboloto )

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

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

Katyn

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 

Kerch

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

A Kerch web site
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_11044.html

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

Kharkov (Kharkiv, Harkiv)

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

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

Bar Mitzvah in Kharkov
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/19892/edition_id/405

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

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

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

Kharkov Great Synagogue

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

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

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

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

Khartsyzk 

Kherson - (Herson, Kerson)

Research
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/ 

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

Khersones

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

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

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

Khodoriv

Khorostkov (G) (Chorostkow)

Once a town in Galicia
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/SuchostavRegion/sl_chorostkow.htm

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

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

Yizkor Book
The table of contents and some chapters from Sefer Khorostkov have been translated into
English and are available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ 

Khodorov

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

Khorostkov

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

Khotyn  

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

Khyriv

   Map of terrain can be seen at
http://www.calle.com/ 

Kibliltch

 
Regional Special Interest Groups
Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG - Contact Alfred Feller http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Kiev (Kyiv) 

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

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 has been developed
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, Volhynia, Muscovy and later, Poland, Lithuania, and Russia. 

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

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

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 

Archives
Has the former Russian records of the Ukraine area.

Books  
           

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

Holocaust
See also a reference to Babi Yar on this page.

   Maps

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

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

Kiev
(044) 228 4718.  More information
http://www.freenet.kiev.ua/ISD/ABOUTUKR/ukroblst.htm 

Photos
Kiev Photo Gallery
A comprehensive archive of pictures and short stories about some of the sites of Kiev, the Capital of Ukraine
http://www.uazone.net/go/gallery.cgi?gallery=Kyiv&ac=index&what=query&q=Jewish 

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

Kiev Pogrom
There was one during the year 1906

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

Kiev Telephone Book

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

Travel
Guide to Kiev
Including photos
http://www.uazone.net/Caption.html 

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

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

Traveling to Kiev and Ukraine  Traveling Roots
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 more
http://www.uazone.net/Ukraine_General.html 

Kirovohrad (Kirovograd)

Located in the Kirovohradska Oblast. 

Records
A database of records and further information
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

Kishinev Sick and Benevolent Society of New York
Including a list of members in the 1920s.
http://jctcuzins.org/kishinev/kishnev1.html

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

Kitsman (Kicman)

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 

Klebanov Volost

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

Klichkovich - (Klichkovichi, Kliczkowice)

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

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.

Research
Jewish names that can be traced to the local villages/colonies through the
1929 Poland Business Directory are:

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

The above information was posted by Alexander Sharon

Klyuvintsy

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

Kobelyaki

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

Koktebel

Kolomyia (G)  (Kolomea, Kolomey, Kolomya)

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

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

Books  
           

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

"Extermination of the Jews of Kolomyia and District"

Kolomyia Special Interest Group
www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/ukraine.html

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

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

Komarno

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

Komsomolsk

Konotop

Kopivka

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

Kopychintsy (G)

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

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

Korets

Located 62 km east of Rovno.

Yizkor Book

Korolowka

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

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

Korosten

Khorostkov

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

Korostyshev

Books  
          

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

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

Located in Kiev Guberniya

Kortelisy

Holocaust
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 Guberniya; 32 in Zhitomir; 21 in Chernihiv; 17 in Kiev and elsewhere.
http://www.infoukes.com/history/www2/page-20.html 

Koshar (Kamin-Kashyrsky)

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

Koshevato

Located in the Tarascha district, Kiev region

Kosov (Kosiv) (G)

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

Kostyantynivka

Kovel - (Kowel, Kowle, Kovla )

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

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

Kozeletz

Located near Chernigov

Kozova (Kozowa)

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

Krakovets

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

Kramators'k

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

Krasilov (Kresilov)

Medvedovka, Zaslav, Volhynia 

Krasnoarmiysk

Krasnodon

Krasnyi Luch

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

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

Kremenets (Krementz)

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

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/

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/kmain.html 

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/General_information_on_Kremenets/
rusandpol.htm  

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

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

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

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

Kremenchuk

A number of Kremenchuk web sites (some in English)

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

Krivoluka

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

Krivoy Rog

Krukenitse (Polish Krukienice, Krukenicja)

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

Krym

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

Kryvyi Rih - (Krivij Rig, Kryvyy Rih)

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

Krzemieniec

Yizkor Book
'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

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

Kupel

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

Kursk

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

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

Kushmir

Located in Podila

Kuty

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

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

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

Kuzmin

Research
There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives

Kyiv - see Kiev

Labun (Lubin is Yiddish name) (See Yurovshchina)

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

Was called Chervonoye during the Soviet-era.

Lanchin

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

Lanovtse

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

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

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

Lavriv (Lawrow)

   Maps
http://www.mapquest.com/ 

Lebedintsy (Lebeda)

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:

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

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

Books   
          

These towns are mentioned in "The Road from Letichev"
Authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock
http://home.earthlink.net/~dchapin/ 

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.

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

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

Lozova

Lubarya

Located in Novogradvolynsky District, Volynsky Region

Lubny (Lubin, Luben, Lovyn)

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

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

Luboml

Lugans'k (Luhansk)

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

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

Lujeni

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

Lukov (Maciejow)

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

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

Lutsk

Located in the Volynska Oblast.

Yizkor Book
A translation of "Geven a Shtot Lutsk, Geven un Umgekumen"
(Once There Was a Town Named Lutsk and it was Destroyed) An unpublished memoir authored by Joseph Receptor
http://www.jewishgen.org/ 

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

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

Once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and then Poland - between the wars -- it became part of the Soviet Union in 1939.  When WW II began, Ukraine's Jewish population numbered some 1.5 million, with 200,000 in Lvov.  It is the gem of the Ukrainian and European culture - a real open space museum.  The city was originally established as a fortress town, because of its geographical location and natural resources. It was founded in 1256 by Prince Danylo of Galicia, who named the city after his eldest son Lev. 

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

There is much to read about this city at
http://www.polynet.lviv.ua/lviv/eng/cerkva_e.htm 

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/ 

http://www.fellnertravelinfo.com/ukraine/

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

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

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

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

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

The L'viv Archives
Does not have Parish Records of towns that were formerly in the Hungarian Ruthenia but 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 Peltc, Director of the L'viv Archives is archives@cl.lv.ukrtel.net

L'viv State Archives
Diana Peltc is Deputy Director.
http://www.huri.harvard.edu/abb_grimsted/L-2.html

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.

"Jews Of Poland -- Five Cities: Bialystok, Lvov, Krakow, Vilna and Warsaw"
A documentary account of the vibrancy of Jewish life in the region before the Holocaust.  It was filmed in 1938-39 and is available in both Yiddish and English.
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/26155/The-Jews-of-Poland-Five-Cities-Bialystok-Lvov-Krakow-Vilna-and-Warsaw/overview

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ghetto

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

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.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005171

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Information
http://www.brama.com/

  Maps

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

http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/gallery/p107.htm

L'vivska Oblast
Located deep in the Carpathian (Karpaty) mountains.
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Ukraine/Lvivska_Oblast/TravelGuide-Lvivska_Oblast.html 

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

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

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

Pogroms
One occurred in 1918 leaving 70 Jews dead.

    
Rynok Square - Photo by Dan Fellner.  See his web page for additional photos and his travel story
http://www.fellnertravelinfo.com/ukraine/

Research
Located in the L'vivska, there is a database on-line at and then follow the links. 
http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/

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

L'viv Election list 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 from a posting by Israel Pickholtz Zach4v6@actcom.co.il 

L'viv Ghetto Database
An index of the Jews in the L'viv ghetto during the years of 1942-45 on-line at
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/lvov.htm 

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

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

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.

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

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

Union Council for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
www.ucsj.com

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.

Lvovo (Lvowo)

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

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

Lypca (Lipche, Lipka)

Lysychansk

Lyubar

Regional Special Interest Groups
Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG - Contact Ellen Shindelman 
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Lyubech

Machifka

Located near Berdichev

Machliniec (Polish spelling for Makhlynets')

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

Makiivka

There is a Makiivka web site

Mal'chychi (Malczyce)

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

Malin

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

Manukiv (Makuniow)

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

Research
Vital Statistic Records are on microfilm.  Select culture, then Lemkos and then genealogy.
http://www.infoukes.com

Marganets

Marinopol (Mariajmpole, Maryampol)

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

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

Mariupol

A number of Mariupol web sites (some in English)

Masandra

Mayuniche

Medvedovka

Volhynia Guberniya

Medzhibozh (Medzhybizh, Medzibozh)

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

Books  
          

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

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

Meidan

Books  
          

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

Mejirichi

There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives

Melitopol

A Melitopol web site is located at

Melnitsah (Melnitza, Melnitsas in Yiddish and Melnitsah)

Located in the Tarnopol Oblast.

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

Mena

http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~shtetm~-1046450

Mezhyrov

Located near Vinnitsa 

Mezirich

Yizkor Book
"Memorial for Greater Mezirich: In Construction and Destruction"
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html 

Miaskovka - (Myaskofka)

Mikhalpol (Mikhampol, Mikhalovka)

Books  
          

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
guberman-lis.html

Mikulince

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

Mikulintsy (Mikulińce) (G)

Once a part of Galicia
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/SuchostavRegion/sl_mikulince.htm

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

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

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

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

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

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

Molodia (Melodiya)

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

http://www.bukovinasociety.org/gaschler-norbert-molodia-schwabenpfarrei-E.html

  Maps

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

Research
http://wn.com/Category:1940_in_Bulgaria

Mollova Podolia

No information available at this time

Monastyriska (G) (Monastrische, Monastyrka)

Regional Special Interest Groups
Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG Contact Cynthia Stern
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Monastyriska/mon002.html

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

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

ShtetLinks
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Morochne

Located in Rivenska Oblast.

Mukacheve (Mukachevo, Mukacsevo, Munkacs)

Located in Zakarpatskaya Oblast.

Cemetery
The cemetery with the tombstones was eradicated in the mid 1960s, ostensibly for commercial expansion.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Hungary
  
   Maps

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

Research
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. 

ShteLinks

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

Munkacs (Mukacsevo, Mukachevo)

Located in Zakarpats'ka Oblast.

Cemetery
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 

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

Muszkatowka (Mushkativka)

Located in the Borszczow District. The Balch Institute located at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's facility at 13th and Locust Street in Philadelphia has information about the immigrant experience. 

  Maps

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 

Myklashiv (Myklasziw)

   Maps

http://lemko.org./atlas 

Mykolaiv (Mikolajow)

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.

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

A number of Mykolaiv web sites (some in English)

Myrgorod (Myrhorod, Mirgorod)

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

 (G) (Nadvirna, Nadvorna, Nadworna)

Once located in Galicia  - Podolia - located in southwest Ukraine, near Poland.

Cemetery
There are 16,000 known burials in this old Jewish cemetery.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Nadvorna/nadw.htm

http://www.isjm.org/jhr/IInos1-2/ukraine.htm

The founder of the Ndvorna dynasty was the Buczacz rebbe ztkll. He was the 5th generation descended to the Baal Shem Tov Ztkll.h according to Chaim Lerman lechaim@telkomsa.net

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

Yizkor Book
"Sefer Edut ve-Zikaron"
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/pinkas_poland/pol2_00328.html

Narodichi (Narodiche, Velikiye Narodiche)

Located in the northeast corner of Zhitomir province, 20 miles northeast from Korosten on local road P22.  In Ukrainian this name would be known as Velikiye Narodiche

Nemirov

Located north of Breslov.

Research
There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives

Nepolokowitz (Nepolokautz, Nepolocauti, Grigore Ghica Voda

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. 

Archive
There is an Archive in Nezhin

Photos
Photos, maps and history of the town and area are at
http://www.ourfamilystory.net/chaiken/chaiken_pages/ancestra/ancestral.htm 

Regional Special Interest Groups
Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG - Contact Alfred Feller.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Nikopol

Nikolayev (formerly known as Mikolaiow, Nikolajev)

Located in Podolia Guberniya.  Nikolayev is located southwest of Kiev, very near Proskurov.
1800s.html There are several villages in Ukraine that have the name Mykolaiv.

Nizhnev (G)

Regional Special Interest Groups
Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG - Contact Susannah R.. Juni
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Yizkor Book

Nizhniye Stanovtsy

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

Nova Kahovka

Nova Ushitsa

Research
David Goldman davic@pop.erols.com reports that metric records for this shtetl aren't even in the closest large city,

Novgorod-Siverskyi - (Novgorod Seversk, Novgorod-Soversk, Gorky)

A town in Ukraine, about 160 miles northeast of Kiev. It's not far from Chernigov. Novgorod-Seversk, State of Chernigov (now  Gorky). 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

Research
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.

Novomoskovsk

Novoselica

Located east of Cernovcy.

Research
The L'viv Historical Archives has virtually nothing for towns that were formerly in the Bukowina area.

Novovolynsk

Novy Oleksinets

Cemetery
There is an old Jewish Cemetery that Ronald Doctor found on his trip to the area in 2002.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~orjgs/win22.PDF

Novyy Yarchev (Yarychev)

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

Obertin

Holocaust
http://www.avotaynu.com/holocaust/appendixc2.htm

Yizkor Book
"A List of Jewish People Who Were Imprisoned and Taken into German Slavery fro Obertin Region" from documents of the Russian Commission transliterated by Alexander Dunai
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html

Ochakov

Odessa

    Odessa Train Station

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 Russia did 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.    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.jokisaari.net/odessa/odessainfo.html

Archives (Odessa) (State)
http://www.mennonitehistory.org/archives/odessa_state_archives.html

Holocaust
Odessa Mass Executions from 1937 - 1938.  Lists names in alphabetical order at
http://home.earthlink.net/~hmehrman/execute/index.htm 

http://archive.jta.org/article/1941/11/14/2855778/massexecution-of-25000-jews-in-odessa-reported-inlondon

Museum of Jewish History

  
 Partisan catacombs

  Maps

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

Odessa Opera House  
http://www.jokisaari.net/odessa/galleria/img58.htm

Landsmanshaft
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/USA/AJHS/CatLandsmanshaft.htm

Photos
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 

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

Pogrom
There was a pogrom in 1905.

Research
Baltimore Jewish Community rescue, relief and renewal of the Jewish community in Odessa
http://www.associated.org/
A database of records. Further information can be obtained at  
http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/ 

Another database which offers some statistics about Odessa's Jewish traders and journeymen
http://jewish-history.com/Occident/volume2/nov1844/odessa.html 

Occident and American Jewish Advocate
Industry of the Jews at Odessa in 1842/1844
http://jewish-history.com/Occident/volume2/nov1844/odessa.html

Odessa Mass Executions 1931 - 1938
An alphabetical list of names though admittedly, not complete
http://home.earthlink.net/~hmehrman/execute/index.htm

Odessa Study Group  
Some information can be found here. The site is informative and includes a map link.  Contact is Anita Citron who can be reached from the site.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukrodess/page12.html

Odessa Young Men's Benevolent Association
Records from 1950s to 1968, incorporated 1901; Burial Permits 1958-1968.  Records are at the Center for Jewish History, New York City, NY
http://www.cjh.org/

Odessa Young Men of Harlem Sick Benevolence Association
Records from 1898 p 1974-5 in box, est. 1912
http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1912_1913_7_Directories.pdf

'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 

Vital Records from Odessa and Simferopol
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ukrodess/index.html

Regional Special Interest Group
Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

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

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 

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/

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

Founded in 2001.  The full time researcher, and guide is Vladimir Chaplin a 26 year old researcher and guide.
http://www.visit2odessa.com/museums.html#page-the-jewish-museum

UKR-Odessa-Genealogy Research Group 
Formerly known as the Odessa Study Group on JewishGen is now located on the Roots Web site.  To join this group go to
http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/UKR/UKR-ODESSA-GEN.html

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ukrodess/index.html

Okhtyrka

Okup

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/

Books  
          

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, Olesyn, Olesin)

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 oblast Ternopil in western Ukraine and was part of Poland until September 1939 and in Galicia, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, from 1772-1918.

Olexandria

Olgopol

http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~shtetm~-1049259

Olyka

"Pinkas ha-Kehila Olyka; Sefer Yizkor" (Memorial Book of the Community of Olyka)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Orkhovychi -  (Orchowice)

   Maps

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

Research
Vital Statistic Records
Available on microfilm. For further information - select culture, then Lemkos and then genealogy.
http://www.infoukes.com 

Oster

Located in Chernigovskaya 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  (Ostroh)

Located originally in Volhynia Guberniya, but today it is in Rovno (Rivne) Oblast.  It is south east of Rovno.  Brody is to the south west as is Kremenets.  Novograd Volynsky is to the northeast. There has been a 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 collaborators Post-war: the community was not rebuilt after the war.

   Maps

Map and additional information at
http://uamaps.com/ukraine-map/rovenskaya/g_ostrog/ostrog/

Research
There some census reports and a number of secondary sources in Zhitomir and Rovno Archives. 

Synagogue
http://members.tripod.com/~mikerosenzweig/polsynagog.htm
 
http://members.core.com/~mikerose/polsynagog.htm

Yizkor Book
"Sefer Ostrog (Vohlin)
Matsevet Zikaron Le-Kehila Kedosha Ostrog book; A Memorial to the Ostrog Holy Community published by The Ostrog Society in Israel in 1987.
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/volyn2/Vol015.html

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

Ostropol (Osterpolye)

Located in the Khmelnytsky Oblast -' 4948 2734, Ukraine, 137.7 miles WSW of Kiev.  The hero of Jewish folklore, Gershele Ostropoler was from that town

Regional Special Interest Groups
Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG - Contact Martin Horwitz
http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html 

Ottynia (G)

Formerly in Galicia. Jews are known to have lived in Ottynia since 1635
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Ottynia/ottynia.htm

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

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

Ozernyany (G) (Jezierzany)  

Once a part of Galicia
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/SuchostavRegion/sl_jezierzany.htm

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

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

"Sefer Ozieran ve-ha-Seviva" (Memorial Book Jezierzany and Surroundings)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Ozirna ( Austrian = Jezierna)

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.

   Maps

http://www.mapquest.com 

Yizkor Book
"Sefer Jezierna" (Memorial book of Jezierna)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Palashevka (G)

Once a part of Galicia
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/Palashevka/palashevka.html

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

Paripsy

Located southeast of Zhitomir and during the late 1800s in the Volhynia Guberniya.

Patskano'va

Located in Zakarpatia. 

Research
For record searching, you need to contact the  Uzhhorod Archives and the respective registries.

Pavlograd

Pavoloch (Pavolitch, Pawolotsch, Pawolocz)

Located near Kiev

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/pavoloch/pavoloch.htm

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

Peremyshlany (Peremyshlyany, Peremyshl' in Ukraine)

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 named Nahlas Eliezer.  More information about this and other area synagogues can be found at
http://www.moria.farlep.net/vjodessa/en/synagogs.html 

Pereyaslav-Borispol

Research
Parish records which are in the Orthodox Consistory of Pereyaslav-Borispol have been filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah for their FHL Catalog. There are 267 rolls of microfilms available to rent. Included are memoranda, decrees and directives, parish censuses, financial records, litigation papers, land and building records, school documents, criminal records, marriage injunctions, disciplinary actions, reports, complaints, vital records and other documents.

The documents refer to localities from all districts of Poltava Province.  Also includes towns from the following districts:
Chernigov Province; Kozeletz and Oster Districts; Kiev Province; Cherkassy, Chigirin, Kanev and Uman Districts: and from Kherson Province; Aleksandriya and Yelizavetgrad Districts. The region was later divided among the Oblasts of Poltava, Chernigov, Kyyiv and Cherkassy, Ukrayina.  Text is in Russian and covers the period from 1733 to 1785 for the Consistory records and 1715 to 1836 for the Parish records.

Pervomaysk (Bogopol, Myk)

Located in the Vinnitsa Province and in the former Russian Podolia 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 Russian Podolia Guberniya , and today it is in the Mykolaiv Oblast. 
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/453340/Pervomaysk

http://www.mkjcc.org/en/community/region/pervomaysk/

Cemetery
http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/ukraine/pervomaysk-bogopol.html

  Maps

http://www.mapquest.com 

http://www.infoukes.com/lists/genealogy/ 

Pereyaslav Khmel'nitskiy (Pereiaslav, Perejaslav)

Southeast of Kiev

Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky

Piater (Petagora)

A small village in Russia (now Ukraine).

Holocaust
A cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut held a memorial service in 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6eyVGprYqw

Pidhaytsi (Pidgaitsi, Pidhaitsi, Pidhajci, Pidhajzi, Pidgajci, Pidgay)

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

Pikulovitse

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

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

Podbortse

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

Podhajce - (Podgavtsy)

It was once in Galicia, and now it is known as Podgaytsy, Ukraine.

Cemetery
There was once a Jewish cemetery.
The New York Podhajcer Society has cemetery records for this shtetl.

Research
Births and Marriage records are available at AGAD at  
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriplweb.htm

Deaths: 1896, 1898, 1899
Deaths (Index Only); 1879-1882, 1884, 1887, 1893-1895

Index Only entries are extracted from indices and the underlying records are not available and cannot be ordered from AGAD.

The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
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. 

Travel
Jean and Mervin Rosenbaum visit to Podhajce
http://podhajce.homestead.com/

Podgaytsy Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_poland/pol2_00410.html

Podkamen (G) (Podkamien, Podkamin, Podkaminya, Pidkamin, Pidkamien)

Once a part of Galicia.  The name translates to 'Below the Rock'. It is just northwest of Rohatyn. There are actually two towns with the name of Pidkamin in Ukraine.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/podkamen/podkamen.htm

Photos
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/102188.html

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

Podlaski Malyye

http://www.getamap.net/maps/ukraine/ternopil_s_ka_oblast/_podvolochisk/

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

Podolia

Located in the southwestern Ukraine, northeast of Moldova/Bessarabia and now in Ukraine.  The largest city is Kamenetz-Podolsk.  Podolia Guberniya is next to Volhynia Guberniya.

   Maps

A map of the general area is available at:   
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~feefhs/maps/ruse/re-ukrai.html

www.expediamaps.com/results.asp?Place=uvysla 

Podvolochisk

Yizkor Book
"Sefer Podwoloczyska ve-ha-Sevivah"
(The Book of Podwoloczyska and Environment)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Pogrebishche 

http://www.nachshen.com/lifschitz.htm

http://nachshen.com/gazeteer.htm

Polonnoye (Polna, Polonnoje, Polona, Polonna, Polonne, Polone)

Located 50° 07'N x 27° 31'E  Poninka and Novalabun, all are located in the Volhynia Guberniya.  It is close to Labun.

Holocaust
The Jews of Polonnoye and Labun were placed together in a ghetto created at a quarry near Polonnoye.  They were then massacred together
www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/polonnoye/polonnoye.html

Museum
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.

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

Subscribe to the Polonnoye Discussion group
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/polonnoye/Listserv.html 

Research
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  

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

"Sefer Zakorrem"
(Book of Memory; Suffering of Jews that died during the Nazi Occupation; History of Polonnoye Jews) 
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Poltava, Dniepropetrovsk

A number of Poltava web sites (some in English)

Pomortsy (G) (Jazlowiec)

Once part of Galicia
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/SuchostavRegion/sl_jazlowiec.htm

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

Popiel

Located near Boryslaw and 4km from Boryslaw-Tustanowice.  From the 1929 Poland Business Directory this village was located in Drohobycz County, Lwów Province in Poland at that time. 

Census
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.

Research
The Regional Court was in Sambor

Postolivka

Located in the Husiatynskyi Raion, Ternopilska Oblast. 

Holocaust
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.

Potochany

  Maps

Map of area from Mapquest
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?countryid=247&addtohistory=&country=UA&city=Potochany&submit=Get+Map

Priluki - (Pryluky, Przyluka)
 

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/priluki/priluki.html 

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

Yizkor Book
"Kniga Pamiati"
(Memorial Book to the Warriors, Residents of Priluki Who Perished in the Great Fatherland War - WW II) 
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html

Probuzhna (G)

Once a part of Galicia
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/SuchostavRegion/sl_probuzna.htm

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

Proskurov (Proskurow) (now Khmelnytsky)

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/ 

History of the town of Proskurov
http://www.jewishgen.org/ukraine/Podolia/proskurov/ProskurovCollection.htm

Research
1875 Jewish census
Located at the Kaminetz-Podolsk Archives

Pogrom
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-3842191.html 

Synagogue
  
 Proskurov Synagogue

Przemysl

Przemysl was part of the Rzeszow "Kehila", but they parted ways and Przemysl became part of "Kehilat Lember" (L'vov).

Archive in Przemysl (State)
Has it's own web site which indicates that it has among others, Jewish documents.
http://www.workjoy.com.pl/pmap_gos/archiwum/ev/historia.html   

History of the Area
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Przemysl/history.shtml

   Maps

This is an easy to search site that includes a interactive Road Atlas of Ukraine, music and a clickable map of the Eparchy of Przemysl:
http://lemko.org

Zasadki
www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/ia_free?width=500&height=300&level=5&1at=495167&ling=

Holocaust information
about Przemysl available at my Poland web page. 

Pukiv

Research
The FHC has microfilmed some records
www.familysearch.com 

Putyvl'

Rabotishche

Located about 120 miles west of Kiev. 

   Maps
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.  In 1938, it was given to Hungary and in 1945 the USSR acquired the city.

Yizkor Book
There is a translation of the history and a description taken from "Sefer Marmarosh"
http://home.ici.net/~eganin/www/translations/rachov.html 

Radomyshl

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

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

Radovtsy (Rodavetz)

This shtetl is located in Podolia region.
http://www.topix.com/ua/khmelnitskiy

http://www.traveljournals.net/explore/ukraine/map/m1561167/radovtsy.html

Radzewillow (Radyvyliv)

Located in Volhynia and is 374 km west of Kiev.

Radzivylov (now known as Chervonoarmiis'ke)

It is about 88 km. southwest of Rivne.

Research
1880 birth and marriage registers.

Rafalovka - (Stararafalivka, Starayarafalovka)

http://home.comcast.net/~carol.deckelbaum/genealogy/rafalovka.html

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

Ramenskoye

Jewish Community
http://www.fjc.ru/news/archives.asp?origMedia=231180&scope=0&start=580&l=en&media=80056

Ratno

Yizkor Book
"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 has not been translated into English.

Repuchewitz (Repuzynce, Repuzhintsy)

It 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, searchable database and photos.

http://www.binenbaum.org/Cities_Ukraine_Rovno.shtml

Maps

http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/ 

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukrwgw/oblastclickmap.html

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 Polissia region (Pripet marshes, lowlands that spread into Belarus).  On the west is the Pidliasshia region of Poland, on the South Galitzia and Podolia regions of Ukraine, and on the east --- Central Ukraine Kyiv region.

Research
A database will be available in the future.

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

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

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

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

ShtetLinks
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/rohatyn/rohatyn.htm

Yizkor Book
"Database of names from Rohatyn Yizkor Book and Rohatyn Cemetery Database"
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html 

Another one was printed in Israel in 1962 titled Kehelat Rohatyn.

Rokitnoye

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

Romanovka (G)

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

Romanowe Siolo

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