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During Soviet days, Ukrainian cities carried Russian names, and since the Russian language doesn't have an "H" in the alphabet, a "G" was used in its place. Remember that the 1941 modern name of the shtetl of your inquiry may or may not be the same as the post WW II modern name. Also note, that with the collapse of the Soviet regime in the 1990s, some towns with Bolshevized names have reverted to their historical names. The Jews of Ukraine make up the fourth largest Jewish Community in the world, and are mainly concentrated in Kiev (110,000), Dniepropetrovsk (60,000), Kharkov (45,000) and Odessa (45,000). Jews also live in many of the smaller towns. Western Ukraine, however, has only a small remnant of its former Jewish population, with L'viv and Chernivtsi each having only about 6,000 Jews. The majority of Jews in present-day Ukraine are native Russian/Ukrainian speakers, and only some of the elderly speak Yiddish as their mother tongue (in 1926, 76.1% claimed Yiddish as their mother tongue). The average age is close to 45. Ukrainian Language, Culture and Travel - included at this web site, are photos of synagogues and memorials along with articles about Jewish culture
"A Guide to Finding Your Town" - Ukraine GenWeb A Picture Gallery of Ukrainian Cities 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 "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. 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 "Every Day Remembrance Day" - authored by Simon Wiesenthal and published by Henry Holt in 1986. There is a place name index to trace the fate of Jews (not by family names) of a given town. ISBN 0-8050-0098-4 "Spisok Naselennikh Mest Kienskoy Gubernii") The List of Shtetls of Kiev Guberniya with Index. Available in some major libraries in the US List and a Map of Agricultural Colonies
From Our Father's Harvest Supplement by Chaim Freedman. In 1983, a detailed large scale map was discovered in the library of the University of Texas by Michoel Ronn. whose family came from the region. Click at the bottom of the page.
Maps
Art Source International offers antique and prints of maps and globes at Art Source International The regions of Ukraine, in alphabetical order can be found at http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/index/Ukraine.html Guberniyas - Russian for Province or county and was used by the Imperial Russian Government as the term for its major administrative units. Guberniyas are divided into Uyezds (districts) (a corrupted word for the old Russian district - it should read: Uyezd [ooh yeh zd], then into Volosts which are similar to counties. Localities of Ukraine - a site that lists most of the Shtetls, towns and cities in English, in KOI-8 Cyrillic, and the name of the oblast (district) and a map identification. The boundaries of a Uyezd, Guberniyas and the counties itself was in a constant state of flux before World War I. Two to four Volosts formed a Uchastok (section) which were overseen by 'nacha l'niks' (managers). Raion - Similar to a Province, was used during the Soviet period. Oblasts are divided into Raions. For a list of oblasts 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. Povit - Ukrainian word for an administrative district/county similar in size to a township / County / district Selo - Ukrainian word for village Another site is JewishGen's ShtetLinks site listing 200 or more Shtetls at www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/
Cities, Villages and Shtetls continued City of L'viv
To find where records can be found, right click Archives Database, then Search Database. Activate Soundex and type in your ancestral town names. Abazovka A Jewish agricultural colony near Balta, founded around 1850. It no longer exists, but it's on maps from the 1930's and earlier. Alan Shuchat ashuchat@wellesley.edu hired a private researcher who found census (reviziia) records for Alan's family from the 1850's and 1870's. Alchevsk A number of Alchevsk web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Alupka http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Alushta http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Anapol There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives Antratsyt http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Artasuv
"Khurbn Jaryczow bay Lemberg: Sefer Zikaron le-Keoshei Jaryczow y-Sevivoteha" (Destruction of Jaryczow: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Jaryczow and Surroundings Ukraine) - Artemivsk A number of Artemivsk web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Bachkurino Located in Podolia Oblast near the border with Kiev Guberniya. Bakhchysaray http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Balta - A small town 200 km from Odessa. The population is about 20 to 30,000. The town consisted of 2 separate parts: Balta (Ottoman Empire) and Jusefgrod (Polish territory). An excellent website, with photos, is located at www.geocities.com/baltatown/show.html http://www.geocities.com/baltatown/show.html Banilow - "Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina" http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Bukowinabook/bukowina.html Bar - Located now in Horodok Raion, west of L'viv. This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Baranovichi - had a population of 22,848. It was a rail junction and manufacturing center and had a teacher's college. Chester G. Cohen's "Shtetl Finder Gazetteer" states that Baranovichi was authorized for Jewish residence in 1903 and that there is a memorial (Yizkor) book for the town. Belaya Tserkov - located south of Kiev Belgorod-Dnestrovsky (Bilgorod-Dnistrovskiy) - http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Beliivka (Belilovka) - a small settlement in the former Kiev Guberniya, today in Zhitomir oblast. It is located southwest of Kiev Belozerka - located 317.6 km west southwest of Kiev Berdechev Cemetery where my half brother Moshe is buried. This is a 'mixed' Berdichev (Berdychiv, Berdichiv, Berdiciv, Berdychiv) - the Berdichev's Jewish population increased mostly in the 1700s, but was a very small minority until then. There still is a small Jewish community, with a Rabbi, still existing in this town. Located west of Kiev. I visited this small city and was unimpressed, though I recently learned that this was the site of the first major massacre conducted by the Nazis after entering Ukraine. I found my half brother's grave in the community cemetery in this town. There is a very interesting book entitled "The Bones of Berdichev" which goes into great detail about this larger town. For additional information contact mweiner@routestoroots.com There is a Berdechev List Manager, Jeanne Gold who monitors a list at A brief, imagined and unflattering description of Berdechev Jews is at http://www.sholom-aleichem.org/why_jews_need2.htm/ Check out the Berdichev-D Digest. Send an email to BERDICHEV-L@rootsweb.com Another site that offers a statistical review of "Berditschew Artificers" taken from an 1844 edition of "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums," and mentions the number of participants in each of the various trades to be found among the then 30,000 Jewish inhabitants is at 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. Berdichev Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at A Berdichev web site is located at A movie (in black and white with subtitles) , 'Komissar' is a work of visual and literary art that symbolically speaks to Jewish past and future of time depicted and was banned in 1962, when it was produced, according to Diane Kriegman Claussen didado@mindspring.com "The World of a Hasidic Master: Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev", by Samuel H. Berdyansk (Berdiansk, Berdyansi'k) - There is a Holocaust Memorial outside of the town. A web site is located at http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Colonies_of_ See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' 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.
There is a Registry Office (RAHS) in the town. Records may also be found in the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in L'viv (TsDIA-L'viv). Additional information available at "Brezezany, Narajow ve-ha-Seviva; Toldot Kehillot she-Nehrevu" (Brzezany Memorial Book) Hamlets and Villages of the Berezhany area Memorial page to bygone world of Berezhany Jews Berezovka (Beresovka, Berezovke, Berozovka) - a town in Odessa Oblast and 88 km from Odessa. Early records indicate that Jews lived there, or in nearby Nikolayev since 1794. A pogrom was instigated on April 4, 1881 and out of 161 buildings owned by Jews, only the Synagogue and a pharmacy were untouched. Another pogrom in October, 1905 was stopped by the local residents. In 1897 there were 3,458 Jews, nearly 57% of the residents and in 1926 there were 3,223 or 42.3%. There is still a Jewish cemetery, located at 127 East Tanastyshina Street. Bershad - a town in Vinnitsa oblast, approximately midway between Kiev and Odessa, and slightly to the west near the Bug river. In "The Shtetl: Image and Reality", edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov and published by The University of Oxford in 2000, Alla Sokolova's study is entitled "The Podolian Shtetl as Architectural Phenomenon." The author describes the general layout of the town and discusses the architecture and interiors of many of the buildings she visited. Bialoholovy (Bialoglowy - Poland) Ternopol Oblast Archives has data on this village. Write (preferably in Ukrainian or Russian, though English will probably work) to: UKRAINA, 282000, Ternopol, Bihali / Bihale area - In 1785 there were 346 Greek Catholics, 120 Roman Catholics and 6 Jews. In 1938, there were 2,234 Greek Catholics, 1,500 Roman Catholics and 75 Jews. Most of the Greek Catholics were probably Ukrainians and most of the Roman Catholics were Poles. Bila Tserkva - A number of Bila Tserkva web sites (some in English) are located at Bobrka (G) - (Bibrka, Bobree)
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.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/lviv.htm http://www.jewish-guide.pl/sites/33 A Yizkor Book, "Le-Zeykher Kehillot Bobrka u-Benoteha" (Boiberke Memorial Book) Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Bogopol (Pervomaysk) It is located
near the Bug River. Bogopol, Olviopol, and Golta were
merged into the city of Pervomaysk in 1919. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=980CE7DC153AE733A25752C0A9649D946497D6CF Boguslav (Boslov)
Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at 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 Additional information at Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at 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. The Jewish Cemetery in this shtetl is in poor condition and contains many mass graves. This web page offers Photos, Maps, a story of a trip to the shtetl and more research information. http://bolechow.ajmendelsohn.com/html/bolechow.html 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. "Sefer ha-Zikaron le-Kedoshei Bolechow" (Memorial Book of the Martyrs of Bolechow) Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Bolshovtsy
"List of Soviet Citizens Shot By German-Fascist Occupants and their Confederates of Bolshowetsky Raion, Stanislau Oblast" - http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html Bolszowce 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. 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. There is a Jewish cemetery in existence for the past 200 years. More information about the cemetery can be obtained from William Fern Whfern@aol.com A Jew, Abraham Schreiner, who owned land in the area, discovered a "greasy, tarry secretion" known as ozokerite and which later made the area well-known for its crude oil production. Currently being indexed by JRI-Poland are Birth records from 1878-1889 and 1894-1899 and Deaths from 1878-1899. Included in the Boryslaw records are records for
Dolhe, Kropiwinik Nowy, Kropiwinik Stary, Lastowki, Majdan, Mraznica, Rybnik, Schodnica, Tustanowice and Wolanka. Yizkor Book - "Tys'mienica Nadai Plynie" (As the Tys'mienica Flows) translation is available. Contact is Laurel White. Regional Special Interest The Town Leader is Alexander Sharon or Mark Halpern, AGAD Archive Coordinator JRI-Poland willie46@aol.com Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available. 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. There is a Yizkor Book for this shtetl Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Borshchovichi - "Khurbn Jaryczow bay Lemberg; Sefer Zikaron le-Keoshei Jaryczow y-Sevivoteha" (Destruction of Jaryczow: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Jarczow and Surroundings Ukraine) - Borynychi - these are Jewish sounding names of soldiers who came from this village and were listed as being dead - Koval, Sharan This information was obtained from a book of military deaths owned by Edward Drebot Boryspil - Borzna - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/borzna/borzna.htm Bosivka (Bosovka) Located 106.3 miles south southwest of Kiev Breslov - A Chassidic Shtetl west of
Uman along the Bug River. Terhevitsa, Zlatipolia, Gusyatin, Shpola, Kaniblad, Tcherin, Medvedovka are a group of towns to the east of Breslov and not far from a lake. Across the lake is Kremenchug. Rabbi Nachman' s main disciple is buried here. A good deal of information can be found at this site Brody (G) - Located in Brodivs'kyi Raion, L'vivska Oblast. It is about 90 km NE of L'viv. Marjorie Rosenfeld marjorie.rosenfeld@cwix.com
has a Brody web site. She has finished the 17th through the 19th century records translations and is now developing the 20th century records. "Ner Tamid: Yizkor le Brody" - An Eternal Light: Brody in Memoriam - http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html Photographs - the Brody (Ukraine) Yizkor Book website hosted by JewishGen has added some photographs to their site. The photographs were obtained from Records Administration (NARA) cartographic collection of the Defense Intelligence Agency Record 373 of Captured German World War II photographs. Photo of old fortress synagogue http://members.tripod.com/~mikerosenzweig/polsynagog.htm Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Broshnev http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bolekhov/index.htm Brovary - http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Bryanka - http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Bryansk - had a Jewish presence and does have an Archive Buchach (G) (Bucac, Buczacz) -
Located about 40 miles east of Ivano-Frankivsk by the Strypa River and near Brzezany. It is a county seat with a population of over 15,000. The table of contents of Sefer Buczacz has been translated into English and is available Additional web sites are at http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/ Further information may be available at http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html This shtetl had a strong, but small Jewish community and many of its citizens emigrated to the US. It is quite possible that the historical Roman Catholic parish records, for this shtetl, as well as Dobrowody and Monasterzyska, and Pidhaitsi are now in the archives of Poland - specifically the Archives of the Presidium of the National Workers Council and the parish records are called the Zabuzanski Collection. If the Dobrowody and Monasterzyska Roman Catholic parish records are not in the Zabuzanski Collection, then you will have to see if the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine has the records. The Table of Contents of Sefer Buczacz is actively being translated Buczacz - There are several hundred Jews living in the communities of Stanislawow and the Rabbi name is Moshe Leib Kolesnik, a local man, trained by Chabad in Moscow. He also helps the smaller Jewish communities of Kolomyya and Buczacz. "Sefer Buczacz; Matsevet Zikaron le-Kehila Kedosha" (Book of Buczacz; In Memory of a Martyred Community) Budanov (G) - Yizkor Book Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Bukachevtsy (Bukaczowce) Galicia Bun'kovychi - located in a fairly wide river valley near the Carpathian Mountains and very close to Khyriv, another town. Map site Burakuvla (G) - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Burshtyn Bushchyno - 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 Additional web site Butsnevtsy (Butsni) - This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Chelguzov - 186.9 miles west of Kiev and located in the Khmelnytska oblast Cemeryntsi - located in the country of Peremyshlany, L'viv province. It is about 40 miles southeast by east of L'viv and about 10 miles east of Peremyshlany. Cesanyky (Czesniki in Polish) - is located about 5 miles southeast of Rohatyn which is about 50 miles southeast of L'viv and 45 miles north of Ivano-Frankivsk. At one time it had over 1,800 inhabitants, but only a few Jews. Cetatea Alba, city, Odessa Oblast (province) located in southernmost Ukraine. In Turkish it is known as Akkerman and in Russian as Belgorod-Dnestrovsky. There is a lot of historical information available at Chelmniecki - there is a small, neglected Jewish cemetery in what is now called Chelmniecki, Ukraine. Israel Friedlander and Bernard Cantor were Jewish emissaries from the US in the early 20th century, who were murdered while on a mercy mission The body of Israel Friedlander was re-interred in Israel in about 2001 and that of Bernard Cantor was left in Yarmolinitsy. This information was offered by Ruthie Ben-Mayor. Chemerovitz - (Chernerovtsy, or Czemerowce) - located near Kamenets-Podol'sk Chernihiv (Chernigov) - located in the Chernihivska Oblast (population of the oblast: 1,416,000)and its administrative center in the northern Dnepr lowlands in Ukraine. The city of Chernigov is situated on the right bank of the navigable Disna River. The population in 1989 was 296,000. It is one of the oldest, and important cities in the country and records go back to a.d. 907 A database of record is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained at 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 A number of Chernigov web sites (some in English) are located at See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html There is a Chernigov Archive that contains Jewish records including records from surrounding towns. Chernigov was the name of a Guberniya (province), and was also the capital city of that province. 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 A Cherkaska Oblast Map is at A number of Cherkassy web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html Chernivtsi (Chernowitz) - located in Chernivetska Oblast is in eastern Ukraine. A database is available. The Chernivtsi Archives has Bukovina records. The LDS Family History Library has Jewish records for Chernivtsi and is currently filming these records. A number of Chernivtsi web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Chernivtsi City Maps Page Chernivtsi - has an Oblast archive See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html In "The Shtetl: Image and Reality", edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov and published by The University of Oxford in 2000, Alla Sokolova's study is entitled "The Podolian Shtetl as Architectural Phenomenon." The author describes the general layout of the town and discusses the architecture and interiors of many of the buildings she visited. Chernobyl (Chornobyl)
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. Chernorudka A small village located on the edge of Berdichev Chervonoe First available census: Revizskaya Skazka 1816. Next available census (Revizskaya Skazka 1834). In 1850 census Chervonograd (Cervonograd, Chervonohrad) http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Chmil'nyk (Chmielnik) Contact Herbert Lazerow. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Chop Located in Uzhhorods'kyi Raion, Zakarpats'ka Oblast Chopovichi Located in Zhitomir province, 16 miles southeast of Korosten, near road #A225 (Korosten - Kyiv road) Chorostkow (Khorostkiv, Khorostkov, Chorostkov) Located about 30 km from Husiatyn (Husyatyn) and 110 km. from Chernivtsi with a population of about 20,000 Chortkov (G) (Chortkiv) Located south of Terebovlya. A Yizkor Book "Sefer Yizkor le-hantsahat Kedoshei Kehillot Czerkow" (Memorial Book of Czerkow). The Table of Contents and Necrology and text of the English chapters have been translated "Chortkov Remembered: The Annihilation of a Jewish Community" http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/ A number of Chortkov web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Crimea This is not a city, but a region that is a beautiful peninsular resort area on the Black Sea - Travel and Tourism 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.
Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Places/Czernowitz Dashiev (Dosha) Located southwest of Kiev and southeast of Vinitza and was in the east Vinitza Oblast. It had a population in 1920 of 5,481. Until 1930, it was known as Stary . There may be documents about the destruction of the region's Jews stored in the Vinitza Archives. Possible contact is Igor Desner vinjew@sovamuz.com Dbuosary - there are records available in the Ukrainian Archives Debeslavtsi - southeast of Kolomyia. A map is available at http://www.mapquest.com/ Debno - Contact Elaine Rosenberg - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html Dedilov - "Khurbn Jaryczow bay Lemberg: Sefer Zikaron le Keshoshei Jaryczow y-Sevivoteha" (Destruction of Jaryczow: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Jarczow and Surroundings Ukraine) - Delyatin (including Dora and Lanchin) (G) - "List of Soviet Citizens of Delyatin Shot by German-Fascist Invaders" - www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Derazhnia - This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Dervenia - a map of the area is available Dolina (Galicia) www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf Yizkor Book Dolzanka - located in the Tarnopol District Drogobych (Drohobitch) (Galicia) Dzigovka - In "The Shtetl: Image and Reality", edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov and published by The University of Oxford in 2000, Alla Sokolova's study is entitled "The Podolian Shtetl as Architectural Phenomenon." The author describes the general layout of the town and discusses the architecture and interiors of many of the buildings she visited. Dnipropetrovs'k - (Ekaterinoslav -now Ukraine) 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) State Archives
of the Dniepropetrovsk Region - the page and its contents are in PDF
file style A database of record is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained at The city of Dniepropetrovsk (UKR.) or Dnepropetrovsk (Russian) is situated on the Dnieper River (Dnepr or Dnipro) in East-Central Ukraine has a population of 1.1 million. The old fortress settlement has existed since the middle of the 16th century. The new town was founded in 1776 by the Russian Prince, Potemkin by order of Catherine II, Empress of the Russian Empire and was called Yekaterinoslav (Ekaterinoslav) from 1776 to 1926. During 1918 the town's name was Sicheslav (The Glory for Sich/Fortress of Cossacks). Ekaterinoslav was a settlement of former Litvak Jews. A number of Dnepropetrovsk web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Dnepropetrovsk Kehilla Project A photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html Ekaterinoslav - Index to Surnames from Ekaterinoslav and surrounding towns. Jewish Community Center - located at 4 Sholom-Aleichem Str. Phone +380 (562) 362983 Fax: 362985 E-mail jcc@jcc.dp.ua Dobromil Land records are at the L'viv Archives for most of the 19th century. Przemysl Archives has a variety of records over many years beginning with 1870 Jewish Birth, Marriage and Death records reside at the L'viv archives according to Kahlile Mehr, the Ukraine expert, who works for the Family History Library of Salt Lake City, Utah. Dolina (G) (Dolena, Dolyna) - located in the Tovmach region of Galicia. There is a Yizkor Book that is currently being translated. http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/stanislawow/gen/towns.htm Additional web site at Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Donetsk (G) - is located in the Donetska Oblast. In the past it was known as both Yozuvka and in the mid 30s as Stalino. It is in the Belarus Indexes and more of a conglomerate of many towns, and very similar in nature to the Polish Upper Silesia regions where several mining towns were built around foundries and coal mines. It is west of Ivano Frankivsk. A database of record is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained at Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at A number of Donetsk web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' Dniprodzerzhyns'k A number of
Dniprodzerzhyns'k web sites (some in English) are located at Drohobycz (G) (Drogobych, Drogobic, Drohobitch)- (Once in Eastern Galicia, now Drogobych, in Western Ukraine) Drohobycz (G) (Drubich) - there are approximately 400 or so Jews still living in this town. A translation of the "Sefer Zikaron le-Drohobycz, Broyslaw ve-ha-Seviva" (Memorial Book of Drohobycz, Boryslaw and Surrounding towns"); information for the 1929 Business Directory of Poland; pre-war telephone books; histories; cemetery lists; photographs; bibliography and more is in the works. Contact Carole Feinberg feincgs@mindspring.com L'viv oblast in western Ukraine. About 25,200 vital records are available at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw and will be indexed by JRI-Poland: Births: 1877-1897 Included in the records for this Administrative center are the vital records for nearby smaller towns and villages. Contact the town leader for further information: Carole Glick Feinberg feincgs@cs.com See also additional information at my Ukrainian web page by clicking here Ukraine 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 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 Information on both the town and the Drohobych district is available at http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm Regional Special Interest Groups - http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html Town information page at
Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Drohobycz (Drohobych, Drubich) - Contact is Laurel E. White Regional Special Interest Groups - More information available at Vital records are available at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw and will be indexed by JRI-Poland: Births: 1877-1897 Marriages: 1877-1881, 1184, 1886-1891, 1893-1897; Deaths: 1852-1896 This town was formerly in Galicia. For additional information, please click here to go to my web page on Galicia For anyone interested in this shtetl, as well as Boryslaw/Borislav, Sambor, Stary Sambor, Dobromil and the many smaller settlements in this part of Western Ukraine, you are invited to subscribe to the BDS&V (V=vicinity) research group. To learn about BDS&V go to InfoFiles on JewishGen Photo of city synagogue http://members.tripod.com/~mikerosenzweig/polsynagog.htm Contact Laurel E White. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Druzhikivka http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Druzhkopol Located in the Volhynia Guberniya Dubie Located about 12 km south of Brody and had more than 2,000 residences. It is in the Brody, Raion, L'viv Oblast. Dubno http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Dunaevtsy (Dunaivtsi) - This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock A photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html Dymytrov (Dimitrov) - Dzerzhynsk - Dzhankoy http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Ekaterinapol - see Katerinapol Ekaterinoslav Hillary Henkin has a copy of the Yizkor book - Email: hilary@mymishpocha.net Elizabethgrad (Kirovohrad) There was a pogrom here in 1905 Energodar http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Fakshtin - there are records available in the Ukrainian Archives Fastov (Fastiv) - located 37 miles southwest of Kiev. Additional information at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Felshtin (Gvardeyskoye) - this is a well documented web site that offers links to a Yizkor Book; Documents and a Newsletter of the Felshtin Society http://www.west.net/~jazz/felshtin/biblio.html Felshtiner Landsleit - Newsletter of the Felshtin Society Felshtin had a bloody pogrom of February 1919 and later a great famine and persecution until its destruction in the holocaust. There is an online Felshtiner Landsleit: The Newsletter of the Felshtin Society This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock A Yizkor book was published in New York in 1937. Feodosia (Feodosiya) - founded by the Greeks on the Black Sea. More information available at Gadyach - site of the tomb of Rabbi Shneur Zalman, the Alter Rebbe who was the founder of the Lubavitch Chassidic movement. Galych - (Galich) Gaspra - Gaysin - This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Gibany (Ghibanu) - in Russian, the letter that looks like "y" can be pronounced "u" and "h" can be a "g". It is located about 75 miles southeast of Kiev. For further information about this Moldavian shtetl, please check out my Glinivce - (pronounced Hlinivce in Ukrainian) lies between Zhitomir and Berdichev and is also next to the town of Andrusivka. It was the heart of the Pale of Settlements. Glinyany - "Khurbn Glinyane" (The Tragic End of our Gliniany) and "Megiles Gline" (The Scroll of Gline") - Golovanevsk - (Golowaniesk, Golowanesk, Golovanisk, Golowansk, Kolowanisky, Galvenski, Golwanesk, Golowamcik, Galawinski, Golwansk, Golowaniska, Golowanejsk, Galowensky, Galovanesky, Golwanick, Glowanck, Golowaniewsk) Podolia region. Until 1918 it was part of the Russian Empire but had an Ukrainian name. A map spells it Holvanivsk but it was apparently spelled Holovanivsk. JewishGen cemeteries project spells it Holovanevsk. There was a mini pogrom in 1904. Golta - located northwest of Odessa - which in 1920 together with it's two neighboring towns of Oliviopol and Bogopol was renamed as Pervomaysk. Gorky (City of ) - was known in the past and again presently as Nizhniy Gorlice, Poland - Contact: Marjorie Rosenfeld e-mail marjorie.rosenfeld@cwix.com Gorlivka - A number of Gorlivka web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Gorodek Jagiellonski - Yizkor Book "Sefer Grayding" (Book of Griding (Grodek Jagiellonski) translation is available at Gorodenka (G) (Horokenka) - Gorodenka (Galicia)
"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 Table of
Contents and Necrology Update from "History of the Jews in the Bukowina," ("Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina,") Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at
"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 information is available at Gorodok (Horodok, Grodek Jagiellonski) (G) - there are records available in the Ukrainian Archives. The map spells this small city as Horodok and it is off the Minsk-Smolensk highway, close to Vitebsk. The city code is 211549. It is about 30 km north of Vitebsk on the Vitebsk - Pskov (Russia) road and is northeast from Minsk, which is about 265 km over the shortest road; more like 300 if you take 'major' roads. It is 35 km E of Bialystok. This site now has a translated Yizkor book at http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html Gorokhov (Horchiv) - "Sefer Horchow" (Gorokhov) Memorial Book) http://jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html Update from "History of the Jews in the Bukowina," ("Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina,") Grebinki - "Translation of Aunt Sophie's Letter" - http://www.jewishgen.org//yizkor/translations.html Grimaylov (G) - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Gulaipole - (Gulyapole, Guljai pole, Gulyaipole, Gulaipole) a market town and county seat had a Jewish presence. Gurzuph Gusyatin (G) - (Husiatyn) (Galicia) A Brief History of the Jewish Community in Gusyatin, Ukraine Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Gvardeyskoye (Felshtin) - Newsletter of the Felshtin Society Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Halies (Halicz, Gallich) - a major town in once Galicia where the name Gallich was originated from the town name of Halicz/Gallich, the capital of the medieval Rus Principality. It is located less than 8 miles from Marinopol. Hliboka - located South of Cernovcy. Contact the Chernivtsi Oblast Archives and registry offices for your research. The L'viv Historical Archives has virtually nothing for towns that were formerly in the Bukowina area. Hlubichok - located in the rayon or district of Borshchiw and in the southern part of the Ternopil oblast. Horodenko (Gorodenko) Hotin - (Khotyin, Chotin) Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Hryniv - (Polish = Hrynio'w) is located near Bobrka. May also be spelled Gryniv. A map of this village can help. www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/ia_find?screen+ia-map- Note: You can write a letter to the village council of Hryniv and ask them to contact your relatives, if any still reside there. There are some costs charged. Husiatyn (Gusiatyn, Gusyatyn, Husyatyn) - Located on the Zbruch River. Some current maps by various mapmakers spell it as Gusyatin. This area was in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, prior to the partitioning of Poland. It was in the Republic of Poland between the world wars. The Administrative District is Husiatyn. Illichivsk http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Ivano-Frankivsk (G) (Stanisle, Stanislawow) (Galicia) - Located in the
Ivan-Frankivska Oblast. It was a large city of more than 100,000 residents, including a thriving Jewish community of 25 to 30,000 Jews.
It is located about 85 miles south of L'vov, and is a city of about 200,000.
It was named after the famous Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko. It is the
major gateway to the Carpathian Mountains. http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/stanislawow/ www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/stanislawow/res_sum.html
Census - a census of all inhabitants was taken in August 1939. The original is in the Ivano Frankivsk oblast archives, but a microfilmed copy is available at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives. It is about 40,000 pages and organized by street. The finding air will tell you which roll of microfilm has which streets. Routes to Roots Foundation reports that there were several 19th century censuses of Stanislawow that are in the Ivano Frankivsk Archives. A number of Ivano-Frankivsk web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html
See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html "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- Ivano-Frankivsk - Travel and Tourism Ivano-Frankovsk - Travel Diary
Yizkor Book 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. Izmail An
Izmail web site is located at 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. A photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Izyum http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Jagielnica (G) formerly in
Galicia Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Justingrad - see Sokolovka Kalinovka - http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kalinovka/ A Memorial to the Jewish Community of Kalinovka) has updated material available at Kal'nycja (Kalnica, Kalnica and Lisko and Kalnica ad Cisna where "ad" is Latin meaning near) 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. www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf There are two Yizkor books for the town, but "Sefer Kalish, 1964" is in Yiddish and/or Hebrew. There is also "The Kalish Book, 1968" in English There is also a "Kalush" near Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Kalyus (Kalius)- Located in the Khmelnytsky Oblast in the Novaya Ushitsa area. It is located on the Dniester River Kamenets- (Kaminetz - Podolsky, Camanes, Kamyanets' Podilskiy, Kamenz, Kamenets-Podolsk, Podolian Kamenets, Kamianets 'Podils'kyi) - A relatively large town located in southwestern part of Ukraine. The State Archive of Khmelnytsky Oblast, 281900 Kamenets -Podolski, Khmelnytska, vul. R. Liuksemburg 15a, Ukraine. Marilyn and Arnold Handleman traveled to this area in July,1994. It is a medieval fortress city and is the site of much archeological activity. There is a real castle there along with a small Jewish community still in existence. A fair number of Jews left the city because of Petliura's pogroms in the region and were spared the experience of the Einsatzgruppen that murdered most of the Podolsky Jewish population, along with thousands of transported Hungarian Jews from Budapest during WW II. There is eye witness testimony about this tragedy in the transcripts from the Eichmann's trial. The town is built on a high rocky bluff of the Smotrich, a left-hand tributary of the Dniester. It is on the historical frontier of Ukraine and Bessarabia, opposite the castle of Khotin. The town has changed hands numerous times in history and has been, among others, under Polish, Russian, Turks, Tartars, Moldavian and Mongol rule. Another address given for the City/State Archive is 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 Kamenets - Podolski Travel and Tourism Contact Judith Sharon - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at A number of Kamenets' Podolski web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock A photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' Kamenka (G) - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Kamenopol
"Khurbn Jaryczow bay Lemberg: Sefer Zikaron le-Keshoshei Jaryczow y-Sevivoteha" (Destruction of Jaryczow: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Jarczow and Surroundings Ukraine) 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. Kaniv http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 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) Located in the Kiev province and about 115 miles south of Kiev and was also referred to as Kalniboloto (the Yiddish shtetl name) Most of the Landsmen left around the same time when the pogroms were threatening to kill everyone in the town. The Landsman formed a society in Brooklyn, NY in 1900 to help the families who settled in America. The society is still active with 6 members. It is called the Kalniblader Society. Katyn A village where the Germans, in 1943, discovered in the nearby forest, the graves of 4,250 Polish Army officers who had been captured by the Soviet Army in 1939-40. Kerch A Kerch web site is located at I found that my half brother, Aaron, his wife and 12 year old daughter, were among the many Jews killed by the Nazis when they invaded this town in WW II. Shirley Margulis and the Jewish Secretary of the Kharkov Synagogue. 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. 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. Bar Mitzvah in Kharkov A number of Kharkov web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Kharkov Jewish Community Kharkov Great Synagogue Chief Rabbi is Moshe Moscowitz. The building was built in 1910 and returned to the Jewish community in 1990 after being used as a sports hall. My wife and I visited the synagogue and met some of the children attending classes along with the secretary of the synagogue. Travel and Tourism in Kharkov - See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html Khartsyzk - Kherson - (Herson, Kerson) located in the Khersonska Oblast. A database of record is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained at A number of Kherson web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' Khersones - Khmelnytsky (Khmel'nyts'kiy, Khmelnitskiy) (now Proskurov) located in Podolia Gubernya - previously known as Proskurow and located in the Khmelnytska Oblast. A database is not yet available, but check this site for relevant information. A number of Khmel'nyts'kiy web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html Khodoriv http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Khorostkov (G) (Chorostkow) Once a town in Galicia The table of contents and some chapters from Sefer Khorostkov have been translated into English and are available at Update from "History of the Jews in the Bukowina," ("Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina,") Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Khodorov Located between Kiev and Zhitomir was a prominent Jewish area before WW II Khorostkov There is a Yizkor Book - "Sefer Chorostkow" (Chorostkow Book) -
Khotyn
As of 2008, there
are 10 Jews living in this town, one of them being a Jewish French
professor. There is a Jewish cemetery, situated in a field next to a
hen house. The cemetery was reported as being neglected and overtaken
by weeds, with a small gray monument with a slanted front. It is a
monument dedicated to the Jews who died during the 1941 occupation. Khyriv Map of terrain can be seen at Kibliltch Contact Alfred Feller. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html Outside of Kiev Synagogue. Photo taken by Ted Margulis, August, 1994 Postcard of 'The Gate of Kiev' Kiev (Kyiv) Located in the north of the central part of Ukraine, and is the major city and capital. The city is part of the Kyivska Oblast. A database of record is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained at Kyiv, a scenic city of close to 3 million people situated on the Dnipro River, is the bustling capital of Ukraine. Ancient Kievan Rus, which reached its greatest period of ascendancy during the 11th and 12th centuries, was a center of trade routes between the Baltic and the Mediterranean. The city of Kyiv and the power of Kievan Rus were destroyed in 1240 by Mongol invaders and the lands of Kievan Rus were divided into principalities located to the west and north: Galicia, Volynia, Muscovy and later, Poland, Lithuania, and Russia. Once a powerful force on the European scene, Ukraine's fate in modern times has been decided in far-off capitals. As a result, modern Ukrainian history, for the most part, has been defined by foreign occupation. But after gaining the independence by Ukraine in 1991 it significantly restored it's political and economic weight. A number of Kiev web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.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 Kiev Archives - has the former Russian records of the Ukraine area. Kiev (044) 228 4718. More information can be found at http://www.freenet.kiev.ua/ISD/ABOUTUKR/ukroblst.htm Kiev Brodsky Synagogue - this is the largest in Ukraine's capital city. Kiev City Guide
Note that the Kiev Gubernya was broken up into several different Regions when the Soviets took over. 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= 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
Kiev Telephone Book Search for free Kiev Travel and Tourism - See also a reference to Babi Yar on this page. Traveling to Kiev and Ukraine - General Facts About Ukraine - if you want to know about the country, then this site has a lot to offer and is about Ukraine today if you are interested in traveling there in the future. Includes tips, money, credit cards, currency exchanges, barbers and beauty shops, tracing Genealogy Roots and so much more http://www.uazone.net/Ukraine_General.html This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Kirovohrad (Kirovograd) Located in the Kirovohradska Oblast. A database of record is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained A number of Kirovohrad web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 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. There is a link to the Kishinev Sick and Benevolent Society of New York including a list of members in the 1920s. An almost complete list of the victims of the 1903 Easter Kishinev Pogrom is available at the Kishinev ShtetLinks page Kitsman -located in a region of Ukraine that is known as Bucovina (Bukovyna)It is about 30 km almost directly north of Chernivtsi and a county seat. A write up about the city is published in the Ukrainian Encyclopedia published by University of Toronto. The river Dniester separates Bukovina from Galicia. Kicman is the Polish transliteration of the spelling of Kitsman in its Cyrillic letters. In the Polish language 'C' is pronounced 'ts'. "Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina" http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Bukowinabook/bukowina.html Klebanov Volost - http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/belarus/bel129.html Klichkovich - (Klichkovichi) - Village is known nowadays as Klichkovichi located at 51o09' 24o29'. It is SW of Kovel and near Turiysk. Village or rather small agriculture colony was known in the interwar Poland as Kliczkowice. What is probably even less known is that Kliczkowce and near by villages: P.KAC (KATZ), Klyuvintsy - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Kobelyaki - located in the Poltava oblast and is 186 miles east south east of Kiev. Koktebel - Kolomyia (G) (Kolomea, Kolomey, Kolomya) - "Extermination of the Jews of Kolomyia and District" - "Emergence of Genocide in Galicia and Resettlement Transports to Belzec Extermination Camp" - "Pinchas Kolomey" (Memorial Book of Kolomey) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf Note that there are several hundred Jews living in the communities of Stanisiawow and the Rabbi name is Moshe Leib Kolesnik, a local man, trained by Chabad in Moscow. He also helps the smaller Jewish communities of Kolomyia and Buczacz. http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip/community.htm A number of Kolomyia web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html L'viv and Ivano-Frankivsk Archives hold numerous civil records from Kolomyya (modern spelling). Kolomyia Special Interest Group Komarno: Located southwest of L'viv. 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 Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Korets - located 62 km east of Rovno. There is a Yizkor book. Korolowka - "For anyone interested in Korolowka in Ukraine, there is a fascinating article about 38 people who lived in caves during WWII. The article is in Adventure magazine, a publication of the National Geographic (June/July 2004). The focus is on the Stermers and the Wexlers but others mentioned were from the Blitzer, Katz and Dodyk families. To fit in with the magazine, there is a lot of information about the caves themselves, but the dramatic story of those who lived through those awful days comes through very clearly. The author interviewed some of the survivors, who described the help they received from a couple of Ukrainians and the ordeals of being discovered on several occasions. Some of the 38 individuals lost their lives during these attacks by Nazis. Of the 14,000 Jews who lived in the region, not quite 300 survived. Some of the cave survivors were actually killed after the war by local Ukrainians. From a posting by Suzan Wynne on 5/26/04 Korosten - http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Khorostkov The Table of Contents and Some Chapters from Sefer Chorostkow are available Korostyshev - There are about four pages of Jewish Vital Records in the book "Some Archival Sources for Ukrainian-Jewish Genealogy" Korsyn (Korsun Shevchenkovskiy, or, in Ukrainian, Korsun Shevchenkivskiy) - located in Kiev Gubernya - Kortelisy - The Germans burned this village to the ground on September 23, 1942 and killed all of its 2,892 residents - men, women and children. About 459 Ukrainian villages were completely destroyed with all, or part of, their population murdered. Ninety seven in Volhynia Gubernya; 32 in Zhitomir; 21 in Chernihiv; 17 in Kiev and elsewhere. Koshar - today it is known as Kamin-Kashyrsky and is located in the center of the Volynskiy region. It is mentioned in this web site Koshevato - located in the Tarascha district, Kiev region Kosov (Kosiv) (G) -Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Kostyantynivka - Kovel - (Kowel, Kowle, Kovla ) "Pinkas Kowel" (Memorial Book of Kowel) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.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) are located at Krasilov (Kresilov) Medvedovka, Zaslav, Volhynia Krasnoarmiysk http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Krasnodon http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Krasnyi Luch http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 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. 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 Associated with the Kremenets Museum is Tamar Senina who is working on identifying old Jewish Kremenets A project is hopeful of translating the 10,000 pages of microfilmed records which contain about 15,000 records. The films cover Jewish births, marriage, divorce and death records for the period 1870 to 1907. Contact Sheree Roth There are other towns with similar names located in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovak Republic, Macedonia, Russia, Serbia and in Ukraine. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Kremenchuk A number of Kremenchuk web sites (some in English) are located at 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 information is available at Krukenitse (Polish Krukienice, Krukenicja) - northwest of the Drogobych Oblast, and is 13 miles north northwest of Sambor (Sambir). It 1939 it had a population over 500. Today, it is located in the L'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) are located at Krzemieniec - 'Memorial Book Of Krzemieniec' - Translation of Pinkas Kremenits; Sefer Zikaron - edited by Abraham Samuel Stein and published in Tel-Aviv in 1954 - includes a history of Jewish settlement in Kremenets; Before WW I and more Ksaverov (Ksaveriv) - located near road P94 Narodichi-Malin, 25 miles south of Narodiche near the town of Nedashki Kukizov - "Khurbn Jaryczow bay Lemberg; Sefer Zikaron le-Keshoshei Jaryczow y-Sevivoteha" (Destruction of Jaryczow Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Jarczow and Surroundings Ukraine) - Kupel - 186.5 miles west southwest of Kiev and located in the Khmelnytska oblast Kursk - is a city and an Oblast and is the administrative center for the area. It is located in western Ukraine - about 120 miles north of Kharkov. In 1989 it had a population of 424,000 in the city. The 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 and. The Oblast, in 1989 had a population of 1,339,000. Kushmir - located in Podila Kuty - once in Galicia and located 32 km (about 20 miles) west southwest of Chernovitz, in the Ivano-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. 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. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Kuzmin - there are records available in the Ukrainian Archives Kyiv - see Kiev Ladzkie (Liats'ke) was called Chervonoye during the Soviet-era. Lanchin Lanovtse - once in Galicia Lanowiec (G) (Lanovtse, Lanowitz, Lanovitsy, Volhynia, Ukraine) Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Lavriv (Lawrow) Lebedintsy (Lebeda) - is located 30 miles southeast of Zhitomir. A map is available at Letichev District (Podolia) Letichev Uyezd (147.9 miles WSW of Kiev) 8 Shtetls: was the home of the Baal Shem Tov and the cradle of the Hassidic movement. See the book "The Road from Letichev" for a detailed description of synagogues, details on the Jewish agricultural colony and the 1648 Khmelnytsky massacres, as well as the pogroms of 1882, 1903-7 and 1919-21. there are records also available in the Ukrainian Archives Towns in Ukraine within the Letichev District: Derazhnia, Letichev, Medzhibozh, Mikhalpol (Mikhampol, Mikhalovka), Staro Zakrevsky Meidan, Volkovintsy, Zinkov, Butsnevtsy (Butsni), Snitkov (Snitovka) These towns are mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock 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 (A Memorial to the Jewish Community of Litin) has updated material available Lozova Lubarya - located in Novogradvolynsky District, Volynsky Region Lubny - More information available at Luboml - In October, 1941, this village disappeared from the face of the earth. Nazi storm troopers occupied the shtetl of more than 4,000 Jews who were systematically massacred and then buried in mass graves. "Remembering Luboml: Images of a Jewish Community" - is an exhibition that showed at the Schatten Gallery, Woodruff Library on the Emory University campus in Atlanta, Ga. Information at (404) 727 6868. Regional Special Interest Groups - Lugans'k (Luhansk) - A number of L'viv web sites (some in English) located See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' 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) - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Lutsk - located in the Volynska Oblast. A translation of "Geven a Shtot Lutsk, Geven un Umgekumen" (Once There Was a Town Named Lutsk and it was Destroyed) is an unpublished memoir authored by Joseph Receptor http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html A number of Lutsk web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html
L'viv Synagogue 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. There remains the ruins of the main Synagogue and Golden Rose Synagogue, the Pas house, Hasidic school and Synagogue, former hospital founded by Dr. Rappaport, Yad Harusym building, hose of Sholom Aleichem, monument of the victims of the Jewish Ghetto, Yaniv cemetery and Yaniv concentration camp. It is the gem of the Ukrainian and European culture - a real open space museum. The city was originally established as a fortress town, because of its geographical location and natural resources. http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Lviv/Lviv.html There is much to read about this city at It is believed, according to Dan Fellner's article, that the early Jews arrived from Byzantium and Asia Mino (Turkey) and neighboring lands. Later (about 100 years later) Jews fled Germany because of the plaque and persecutions. By the end of the 14th century, L'vov had two Jewish settlements. On was inside the walled city and other outside the gates. Each had their own synagogues and mikvahs, but shared a cemetery. L'viv suffered relatively little damage during WW II. The result is an Old Town, anchored by cobblestoned Rynok Square featuring more than 40 buildings in a variety of architectural styles. It bears a resemblance to Florence, Italy. The city has a general population of some nine hundred thousand people of which there are about five or six thousand Jews today. There is a Jewish newspaper which appears in Ukrainian and Yiddish, and is published by Boris Dorfman who also gives tours of Jewish sites in L'viv. Meilech Shoichet, a resident, is involved in the Jewish cemetery restoration. Main Archives, Administration of Ukraine, The Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine, City of L'viv (TsDIA-L'viv), Soborna Square 3-a, L'viv, 290000, Ukraine. Phone/Fax 011 380 322 72 35 08 (Phone Only: 011 380 322 72 30 63) The L'viv 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 Pelts, Director of the L'viv Archives is archives@cl.lv.ukrtel.net The Lwów Archives indicated that they have records for 1829, 1831-50 and 1896.
The Central State Historical Archive in L'viv has some historical Manukiv and Orkhovychi Vital Statistic Records. Drill
down through culture, Lemkos and genealogy.
Galician Forced Laborers from L'vov: Data on 1,110 workers, from a collection of the L'viv State Archives. When WW II began, the Jewish population swelled to more than 200,000 as refugees poured in from German occupied Poland. The Germans captured the city in June 1941and more than 6,000 Jews were killed immediately in pogroms carried out by the local population, fueled by rumors that Jews had participated in the execution of Ukrainian political prisoners. In November 1941, there was a Jewish ghetto which eventually held more than 100,000. Shortly thereafter, the Germans began emptying the ghetto and sending the Jewish population to Belzec death camp (60 miles north of L'vov) and thousands more to the Janówska labor camp (located in the northern part of the city) where most were shot by firing squads. The Ghetto was liquidated in June 1943. When the Russians recaptured L'vov in July 1944, there were only a few hundred Jews remaining to tell the story. After WW II, some 30,000 Jews returned, but that number has been since reduced to about 6,000 as many chose to emigrate to Israel, Germany and America. Hassidic Movement - L'vov became the center of the Hasidic movement towards the end of the 18th century.
Jewish Community Center
- housed in the Hesed Arieh (Lvov
Jewish House; 30 Kotlarevski Street; Phone 011 380 322 389 860; Website is
in Russian. There is also a one-room museum in the building. The
facility is directed by Ada Dianova
arie@hesed.lviv.ua
Database
Located in the L'vivska, there is a database on-line at and then follow the links. L'viv Election list - is stored at Yad Vashem. There are twenty-three paper folders in a file called M52. Everything is in Russian. The folders are in three boxes and these boxes contain twenty-six folders according to a posting to JewishGen by Israel Pickholtz Zach4v6@actcom.co.il 3/23/02 L'viv Ghetto - little remains, but there is a pink building at 3 Ugolna Street which is the site of a mid-19th century synagogue, yeshiva and mikve. It was the city's only functioning synagogue between 1945 and 1962 when it was closed by the Soviets. A memorial to the victims of the ghetto is at Chornovola Street, near the railroad bridge.
L'viv Ghetto Database - an index of the Jews in the L'viv ghetto during the years of 1942-45 on-line at
L'viv Information L'vivska Oblast is deep in the Carpathian (Karpaty) mountains.
L'viv Photo Gallery -
Rynok Square
L'viv State Archives, Diana Peltc is Deputy Director. L'viv Synagogues - The only active synagogue in the 21st century is Bais Aron V'Yisroel located at 4 Brothers Miknovski Street; 380 322 383 804. Completed in 1931, the L'viv synagogue is in rather good condition though the original artwork on the walls and ceilings need work. Golden Rose Synagogue built in 1582 inside the city walls by the Nachmanovich family and at one time, there was a fight about who own the land that the synagogue was built on with the Jesuits, but the Jews were able to prove that they owned the land. The synagogue remained right up until the Holocaust when the Nazis burned it down in 1942. Part of the northern wall has survived and bears a plaque written in English, Hebrew and Ukrainian. Remains of the synagogue are located at 54 Starojevrejskaja Street. Next door is the local bureau of the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union which offers a small kosher canteen which can provide kosher meals to visitors. Contact to make arrangements 380 322 622 219; meylach@link.lviv.ua A Reform temple was opened in 1910 when the Jewish population was 57,000. L'vov eventually returned to Poland between the world wars and by 1939, it had a Jewish population of 110,000 - one third of Lvov's total population. There were two other prominent synagogues that did not survive the Holocaust. In the Old Market Square near where the city was founded, there is a plaque marking the location of what was once the largest Reform synagogue in Galicia. Several blocks away, near an outdoor market at the corner of Sanska and Vesela Streets, in the site of the former Hasidic Grand Synagogue, originally built in the 17th century.
L'viv Travel and Tourism - Museum of the History of Religions - located at 1 Muzeina Street, displays about 50 Judaica items. Thousands more that are not displayed and may never be, are stored in other L'vov museums.
Union Council for Jews in
the Former Soviet Union "Lwów Volume: Part I From The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora, Jerusalem" - "List of Lwów Holocaust Victims, Compiled List" - http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
L'viv White Page Telephone Book Oleh Iwanusiw, a Ukrainian genealogist, olehwi@attcanada.net , a member of the genealogy@infoukes.com Simon Wiesenthal was living in L'vov with his wife when the Nazis invaded in 1941. They were imprisoned in Janówska, from which Wiesenthal escaped in 1943 and fought with the partisans before being recaptured in 1944. Two years after being liberated from the Mauthausen concentration camp, he helped establish the Jewish Documentation Center in Austria. Books
"In The Sewers of Lvov: A Heroic Story of Survival From the Holocaust" authored by Robert Marshall and published by Scribner - chronicles the plight of 20 Jews who survived by hiding for more than a year in the city's sewer system. "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. "My Private War" - authored by Jacob Gerstenfeld-Maltie. This book tells the story of the survival of a man from Lvov (Lemberg) during the war. It supplies very interesting insights into life in Lemberg during that time. May be ordered from my link to Amazon.com "The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness" - authored by Simon Wiesenthal and published by Schocken. "Smoke in the Sand: Jews of Lvov in the War Years, 1939-1944" - authored by Eliah Yones and published by Gefen. This book details the role of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) which provided work for as many as 5,000 people in the ghetto at one time. 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html UKRSOTSBANK, a bank located in L'viv, handles TT (Bank Wire Transfers) but at a high cost Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Lvovo (Lvowo) - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Lypca (Lipche, Lipka) Lysychansk - Lyubar - Contact Ellen Shindelman - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at 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 Welcome web site is located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 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)-
Vital Statistic Records are on microfilm. For further information 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) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 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" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 2,039. This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock A photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html Meidan - This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Mejirichi - there are records available in the Ukrainian Archives Melitopol - A Melitopol web site is located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Melnitsah (Melnitza, Melnitsas in Yiddish and Melnitsah) - located in the Tarnopol Oblast. There is a Yizkor book ("Melnitza Survivors in Israel and Diaspora") for the town: The Editor is Joshua Liot, and published in Tel Aviv in 1994 and includes illustrations, maps in Hebrew, Yiddish and English. Mena - http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~shtetm~-1046450 Mezhyrov - located near Vinnitsa Mezirich - "Memorial for Greater Mezirich: In Construction and Destruction" Miaskovka - (Myaskofka) - Mikhalpol (Mikhampol, Mikhalovka) - This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Mikolaiow (Mikolayev, now Nikolayev) located in Podolia Guberniya Daniel Kazez has a link to his Oberman (Guberman) and Lis (Liss) families from this town at Mikulince - "Mikulince; Sefer Yizkor" (Mikulince Yizkor Book: List of Holocaust Victims) - Mikulintsy (Mikulińce) (G) - once a part of Galicia Update from "History of the Jews in the Bukowina," ("Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina,") Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Mogilev Podolski - (Mohyliv-Podil's'kyi) in the southwestern Ukraine in the Podolia Guberniya. It is several hundred miles from Mogilev in Belarus. This town is located on the Dniester River, just across the river from Moldova (formerly Bessarabia). The telephone code is 04337 and the Director's number for the telephone service is 23 444 A photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html Mollova Podolia No information available at this time Monastyriska (G) (Monastrische, Monastyrka) - Contact Cynthia Stern. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Monastyriska/mon002.html http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/LOC/ds135-r93locbib.html http://www.jewishinstitute.org.pl/en/gminy/miasto/951.html Morochne - located in Rivenska Oblast. Bolshiye Mosty - Following the end of WWII, this town was known in Russian as Bolshiye Mosty, and currently town is renamed in Ukrainian as Velikiye Mosty which is direct translation of its German or Polish name of "The Tall Bridges". The town is located at 5014 2409 on the Rata River, contributory of the Western Bug River, about a halfway between Zolkva (Z'olkiew) and Chervonograd (Krystynopol) on the highway #A256. Mukacheve (Mukachevo, Mukacsevo, Munkacs) located in Zakarpatskaya Oblast. There is an alphabetical listing of 1,500 individuals buried in the destroyed Jewish cemetery. The list has been previously available in Hebrew and now in English. The information is from an enumeration list prepared during the end of the 1920s. The cemetery with the tombstones was eradicated in the mid 1960s, ostensibly for commercial expansion. http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Mukachevo/ City Maps Page Munkacs (Mukacsevo, Mukachevo) - located in Zakarpats'ka Oblast. There is an alphabetical listing (in English and in Hebrew) of 1,500 individuals buried in the destroyed Jewish cemetery. Contact: Louis Schonfeld Lmagyar@en.com Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at 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. A map is available at 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) A map is available at 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. A database of record is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained at A number of Mykolaiv web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Myrgorod (Myrhorod, Mirgorod) http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html Nadvornaya (G) (Nadvirna, Nadvorna, Nadworna) Once located in
Galicia - Podolia - located in southwest Ukraine, near
Poland has an old Jewish cemetery. There are 16,000 known burials http://www.isjm.org/jhr/IInos1-2/ukraine.htm The founder of the Ndvorna dynasty was the Buczacz rebbe ztkll.h was the 5th generation descended to the Baal Shem Tov Ztkll.h according to Chaim Lerman lechaim@telkomsa.net A Yizkor Book "Sefer Edut ve-Zikaron" is in process of translation- An additional web site is at Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Narodichi (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. There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives Nezhin (Nizhyn) The town of
Nezhin is located in the Chernigov province of Ukraine. Jews first settled in
Nezhin, after the partition of Poland, at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Photos, maps and history of the town and area are at There is an Archive in Nezhin. Contact Alfred Feller. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at More information available at Nikopol A web sites is located at Nikolayev (formerly known as Mikolaiow, Nikolajev)
Located in Podolia Guberniya. Nikolayev is located southwest of
Kiev, very near Proskurov. There are several villages in Ukraine that have the name Mykolaiv. Nizhnev (G) - a translation of the Yizkor Book is in process. Contact Susannah R.. Juni. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html Nizhniye Stanovtsy - "Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina" http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Bukowinabook/bukowina.html
Nova Kahovka - Nova Ushitsa - 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) - 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 Novomoskovsk http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Novoselica Located east of Cernovcy. The L'viv Historical Archives has virtually nothing for towns that were formerly in the Bukowina area. Novovolynsk http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Novy Oleksinets There is an old
Jewish Cemetery that Ronald Doctor found on his trip to the area in 2002. Novyy Yarchev (Yarychev)
"Khurbn Jaryczow bay Lemberg; Sefer Zikaron le-Keshoshei Jaryczow y-Sevivoteha" (Destruction of Jaryczow: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Jarczow and Surroundings Ukraine) Obertin
"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 www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf http://www.avotaynu.com/holocaust/appendixc2.htm Ochakov http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html
Odessa 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. There was a 1905 pogrom. It is estimated that present day Odessa has a Jewish population of somewhere around 25 to 30,000 souls. In 1820, Odessan Jews founded the first institution of higher education in the Russian Empire, where Jewish students could learn secular subjects such as European Life for Jews in the city, and surrounding areas, was less harsh and restrictive, than in the rest of Russia. Jews could be admitted into the city's gymnasia (schools) after demonstrating their educational prowess by passing a written examination. In 1876, there were three gymnasia and two schools called 'Pre-gymnasia'. Baltimore Jewish Community rescue, relief and renewal of the Jewish community in Odessa Brody Synagogue - this site provides information about the Brody synagogue and also about the Nahlas Eliezer Synagogue, the Central Synagogue and the Kosher Meat and Slaughters Synagogue. The site includes illustrations of each synagogue described and also and also of the personages associated with each one. A database of records is currently being developed where further information can be obtained at Another database which offers some statistics about Odessa's Jewish traders and journeymen Museum of Jewish History - founded in 2001. The full time researcher, and guide is Vladimir Chaplin a 26 year old researcher and guide. Odessa City Maps Page
Odessa State Archives
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.
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 Odessa Travel and Tourism - A number of Odessa web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html 'The Rebirth of the Jewish Community of Odessa' was 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 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 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 Vital Records from Odessa and Simferopol are shown at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ukrodess/index.html Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Okhtyrka http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.htm 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 - This town (Okupy) is mentioned in
"The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Olesina (Olesino) The name during the Soviet period. Today it is Olesyn; in Polish it is Olesin and this was the spelling during the Austrian period. It is about 6 miles northeast of Kozova and Kosova is about 10 miles East of Berezhany. Kosova in Ukrainian (transliterated); Kosowa in Polish and Austrian name. It is a village and about 5 km (3 miles) north of Kozova and is a county seat (Raions). It was part of 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 http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html 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) Orkhovychi - (Orchowice)
Vital Statistic Records are available on microfilm. For further information
- select culture, then Lemkos and then genealogy.
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 Located originally in Volhynia Guberniya, but today it is in Robno Oblast. Jewish Presence: since 15th century. Under the Cossack uprising in 1648-49, 7,000 Jews were massacred. Pre-Holocaust Jewish population: approximately 10,500 Fate of Jews during WW II: murdered outside town by Nazis and Ukrainian collaborators Post-war: the community was not rebuilt after the war. There some census reports and a number of secondary sources in
Zhitomir and Rovno Archives. Map and additional information at Photo of old synagogue "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. Translation on-line Yizkor Book 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 Contact Martin Horwitz - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Ottynia (G) Formerly in Galicia. Jews are known to have lived in Ottynia since 1635 www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Ozernyany (G) (Jezierzany) Once a part of Galicia Update from "History of the Jews in the Bukowina," ("Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina,") "Sefer ozieeran ve-ha-seviva" - "Sefer Ozieran ve-ha-Seviva" (Memorial Book Jezierzany and Surroundings) - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at 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. "Sefer Jezierna" (Memorial book of Jezierna) - http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html Palashevka (G) Once a part of Galicia Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Paripsy - located southeast of Zhitomir and during the late 1800s in the Volhynia Guberniya. Patskano'va - located in Zakarpatia. For record searching, you need to contact the Uzhhorod Archives and the respective registries. Pavlograd - A web site is located at Pavoloch (Pavolitch, Pawolotsch, Pawolocz) - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at 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 name Nahlas Eliezer. More information about this and other area synagogues can be found at 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. More information available at A map is available at Pereyaslav Khmel'nitskiy (Pereiaslav, Perejaslav) - southeast of Kiev Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky - Pidhaitsi - Pikulovitse - "Khurbn Jaryczow bay Lemberg; Sefer Zikaron le-Keshoshei Jaryczow y-Sevivoteha" (Destruction of Jaryczow: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Jarczow and Surroundings Ukraine) - Pisarevka - located 191.3 west southwest of Kiev in the Khmelnytska oblast Pochayev - Yizkor Book "Pitshayever Yizkor Bukh" (Memorial Book Dedicated to the Jews of Pitchayev-Wohlyn executed by the Germans) - translation is available at Podbortse - "Khurbn Jaryczow bay Lemberg; Sefer Zikaron le-Keshoshei Jaryczow y-Sevivoteha" (Destruction of Jaryczow: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Jarczow and Surroundings Ukraine) - Podhajce - (Podgavtsy) The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow. Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns. Births and Marriage records are available at AGAD at There was once a Jewish cemetery Deaths: 1896, 1898, 1899 Index Only entries are extracted from indices and the underlying records are not available and cannot be ordered from AGAD. Podgaytsy Yizkor Book The New York Podhajcer Society has cemetery records for this shtetl. It was once in Galicia, and now it is known as Podgaytsy, Ukraine. Jean and Mervin
Rosenbaum visit to Podhajce Podkamen (G) (Podkamien, Podkamin, Podkaminya, Pidkamin, Pidkamien) - once a part of Galicia. The name translates to 'Below the Rock' Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Podlaski Malyye - "Khurbn Jaryczow bay Lemberg; Sefer Zikaron le-Keshoshei Jaryczow y-Sevivoteha" (Destruction of Jaryczow: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Jarczow and Surroundings Ukraine) - Podolia , located in the southwestern Ukraine, northeast of Moldova/Bessarabia and now in Ukraine. The largest city is Kamenetz-Podolsk. A map of the general area is available at: www.expediamaps.com/results.asp?Place=uvysla Podvolochisk - "Sefer Podwoloczyska ve-ha-Sevivah" (The Book of Podwoloczyska and Environment) - Pogrebishche - http://www.nachshen.com/lifschitz.htm http://nachshen.com/gazeteer.htm Polonnoye (Polna, Polonnoje, Polona, Polonna, Polonne) - Located
50° 07'N x 27° 31'E Poninka and Novalabun, all are located in the Volhynia Guberniya. The site has past and present photos, historical summaries; a summary of surnames being research; bibliography; and a list of Landmanschaften cemeteries.
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. There is a link to the 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 Subscribe to the Polonnoye Discussion group http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/polonnoye/Listserv.html Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Poltava, Dniepropetrovsk - A number of Poltava web sites (some in English) are located at Pomortsy (G) (Jazłowiec) - once part of Galicia Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Popiel - located near Boryslaw and 4km from Boryslaw-Tustanowice. In the 1921 National Poland Census, there were 1,834 people living in this village of which there were 27 - 50 Jews, but only 19 declared their mother language as Jewish. From the 1929 Poland Business Directory this village was located in Drohobycz County, Lwów Province in Poland at that time. The Regional Court was in Sambor Postolivka - Located in the Husiatynskyi Raion, Ternopilska Oblast. Here is a list of probable Jewish surnamed soldiers born in this town who died or disappeared in WW II and published on the Internet: Baran, Berchyshyn, Bekhavskyi, Bialkovskyi, Hensiur/Gensiur, Zel, Zubak, Kowalski, Kolisnyk, Konkani, Kravets, Kushil, Malkut, Mushaliuk, Podolskiy, Polnyi, Slobodetskyi, Teshner, Turchyn, Shevela. Potochany - Map of area from Mapquest
Priluki
- (Pryluky, Przyluka) http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/priluki/priluki.html "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 Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at More information available at Probuzhna (G) - Once a part of Galicia Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at
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 1875 Jewish census is located at the Kaminetz-Podolsk Archives History of the
town of Proskurov Pogrom Przemysl and other sites - Przemysl was part of the Rzeszow "Kehila", but they parted ways and Przemysl became part of "Kehilat Lember" (L'vov). This is an easy to search site that includes a interactive Road Atlas of Ukraine, music and a clickable map of the Eparchy of Przemysl: History of the Area State Archive in Przemysl has it's own web site which indicates that it has among others, Jewish documents. You will find details at http://www.workjoy.com.pl/pmap_gos/archiwum/ev/historia.html Holocaust information about Przemysl available at my Pukiv - the FHC has microfilmed some records, Putyvl' - Rabotishche - located about 120 miles west of Kiev. A map is available of the area 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. There is a translation of the history and a description taken from "Sefer Marmarosh" at http://home.ici.net/~eganin/www/translations/rachov.html An informative web site at 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. Images of Radomyshl - this site contains History, Images, Maps, Links, Holocaust Archives and databases, Memoirs and family stories and Genealogy Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at
Radovtsy (Rodavetz)
This shtetl is
ocated in Podolia region. Rafalovka - (Stararafalivka, Starayarafalovka)
http://home.comcast.net/~carol.deckelbaum/ Ratno - "Ratne; Sipura Shel Kehila Yehudit she-Hushmedah" (Ratne; the Story of a Jewish Community that was destroyed). The Editor is Nahman Tamir who lives in Tel Aviv and the Ratno Society in Israel, published the book in 1983. The book is not translated into English yet. Repuchewitz - is corrupted German/Yiddish version of village Repuzynce, pronounced [reh poo zhee ntseh] (currently known in Ukrainian as Repuzhintsy at 4839 2548) located just 3 miles East from Zalishchyky. Both localities are located within the historical Bukovina where Ukrainian, Romanian (Moldavian), Russian, German (Austrian) and Yiddish town names are happily mixed up. Rovno (Rovno, Ruvno, Ruvne) Located in the Volhynia Guberniya and is the Rivenska Oblast (Province) capital in the NW area of Ukraine. This site will also offer various maps, history, searchable database and photos. A database will be available in the future.
A number of Rivne web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html
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 "Database of names from Rohatyn Yizkor Book and Rohatyn Cemetery Database" - this book has been updated. An informative web site is at www.rtrfoundation.org/webart/archdatap46-49.pdf Yizkor Book - there is one that was printed in Israel in 1962 titled Kehelat Rohatyn. Rokitnoye - Update from "History of the Jews in the Bukowina," ("Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina,") Romanovka (G) -
Once a part of Galicia Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Romanowe Siolo
Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Romny http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Rostovitsa (Raschtevitza) A railroad station located approximately 7 miles northeast of Belilovka on a rail line that connects the town of Uman to the town of Kazatin Rovenky http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Rovno (Rowne) - (Rivne, Rovne, Rowne, Rowno, Ruvne, Ruvno) http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/rovno/rovno_homepage.htm "Sefer Zikaron" (Rowno; a Memorial to the Jewish community of Rowno, Wolyn)
Rivne Oblast Archive
Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Rozdol (G) (Razdol, Rozdul, Rosdil, Rozdo, Rozla) - a very informative (East Galicia) web site: Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Rozhniatyn - located between L'viv and Ivano-Frankivsk and is a 'county' seat. Rozhnyatov (G) (Rozhnyatov)- (Rozhnyatov, Rozniatow, Rozhantov, Rozhnyatuv, Rozintov, Roznatov, Roznyatuv) - once a part of Galicia A Yizkor Book for this shtetl http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html Four hundred photos of gravestones can be viewed at Rozhnyatov Aerial Photo of Jewish cemetery The Rozhnyatov Yizkor Book is available at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Rozniatow/Rozhnyatov.html Thomas Weiss tfweiss@mit.edu is the webmaster for the Rozniatow Web page Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Rozniatow - Yizkor Book "Sefer Zikaron le-Kehillot Rozniatow" (Yizkor Book in Memory of Rozniatow) which includes the neighboring communities of Stryj, Dolina, Bolkhov, Kalush and Stanislawow. The Table of Contents indicates that there is a map of Rozniatow and photos Rozvoriany - a map site Rozyszcze - "Rozyszcze Ayarti" (Rozyszcze, My Old Home) - http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html Rubizhne - Sadgura (Sadagera in Yiddish) - a suburb of Chernivtsi. At one time the population was about 80% Jewish. Links to additional information including photos, maps, databases, personal trips, about the area Rabbi Israel Friedmann was the patriarch of the Ruzhiner, later Sadagorer, dynasty of Hasidic Rabbis. He moved to Sadagora, Austria (now Sadgura, Ukraine) in the mid 1800s. http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/sadgura/sadgura.html Memoirs on the Sadgura ShtetLinks web site recalling life in Sadgura (Bukovina) and Chotin (Ukraine) in the early 1900s. Jack (Yankel) Becker tells the story of his early years in this 1974 oral history - interview with his daughter, Elizabeth "Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina" (History of the Jews in the Bukowina) Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Sadowej-Wiszni (Sadowa Wisznia, Sudova Vysnya, Sudovaya Vishnya, Vinizka) ) - is in present day Ukraine and is 28.4 miles west of L'viv and 26 miles east of Przemysl - just over the Polish Border. Sambor (Sambir) - this is a 15th century community which had about 8,000 Jews before the WW II. Most were deported to Belzec Between the "Aktionen" and deportations to Belzec, they wiped out the community. http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
Records for Sambor, Galicia (now Sambor, Ukraine) are available at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw and will be indexed by JRI-Poland. Another informational site for Sambor is http://motic.wiesenthal.com/albums/malbum/m15/a0770m2.html Some additional information may be available at my web page for Galicia by just click here > Galicia Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Sarnovichi - located northeast from Korosten and halfway to Narodiche Satanov (G) (Sataniv, Satanow) - once a part of Galicia The Jewish population, or Kehila, in this, the Czartoryski Territories in 1776, obtained from Appendix I of the book "The Lords' Jews, Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 18th Century" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 1,625. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Seletin - Contact Norah Schdrf. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html Sevastopol - A number of Sevastopol web sites (some in English) are located at See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html Severodnetsk - A number of Severodnetsk web sites (some in English) are located at Shargorod (G) A town in Vinnitsa oblast, Ukrainian SSR An organized Jewish community existed there from the latter half of the 17th century. Contact Yackov & Lena Berkun. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at then go to ShtetLinks and then to SIG sites In "The Shtetl: Image and Reality," edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov and published by the University of Oxford in 2000, offers a study by Alla Sokolova, entitled "The Podolian Shtetl as Architectural Phenomenon." The author describes the general layout of several towns: She also reproduces a photograph of a frame house in Shargorod, which has a stone basement and walls of mud and thatch cylinders, dating from the second half of the 19th century. There is also a photograph of another, similar house in Shargorod, but with a different floor plan. This house dates from the early part of the 19th century, but has a facade of brick which was done in the early 1990s as part of its modernizing. Each photograph is accompanied by a floor plans showing where the various rooms were located. Sites that have additional information includes: http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/text/x29/xm2995.html This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Sharovka - there are records available in the Ukrainian Archives Shahtarsk - Shepetovka (Shepetivka) - there are records available in the Ukrainian Archives Sherivtsi (Szerewci) - located about 32 km northeast of Chernivtsi. Horishni Sherivtsi is about 11 km north of Chernivtsi. For a map Shostka - Shumsk - located at 50'07'/26'07', 62 km south of Rovno. It is now part of the Ternopil District , but is identified with the historic region of Volhynia. It was part of Poland from the 16th century to the end of the 18th century, when it became part of Russia. In 1921 the Treaty of Riga returned Shumsk to Poland. It became part of the USSR in 1939, but was overtaken by the German Army during World War II. In 1945 Shumsk was again part of the USSR, and remained so until the establishment of the independent state of Ukraine in 1991. Shyshkovtse - there are two towns with this name; one was in the district of Zaleszczyki, sub district Tluste and is 50 km north of Chernivtsi. The other Shyshkovtse was in the Brody district, sub district Polka Mien. Simferopol - A number of Simferopol web sites (some in English) are located at Sitniaki - close to Fastov and Kiev Skala (G) - (Skala-Podolskaya ) once a part of Galicia and is located in Borshchiv Guberniya, Ternopol Oblast and about 60 miles southeast of Ternopol, bordering Halychyna (Galicia). It lies east of Gorodenka, just west of Kamenets Podolski. The population is approximately 5,000. To the north there is the town of Smotrich and Orinin is due south. According to the Times Atlas of the World (Page 82) it is located in a direct line between Chortkov in the northwest and Kamenets Podolski in the southeast. This whole area is east of L'vov in an area surrounded by Ivano-Frankovsk in the west, Ternopol in the north- Khmelnytsky in the east and Chenovtsy in the south. Skala Podilska - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Skalat (G) Formerly in
Galicia (Austro-Hungary), then Poland, and now in Ukraine. It was home to a large Jewish population, and even more families lived in the surrounding villages and towns, according to an article in her City Lights column by Schelly Talalay Dardashti in The Jerusalem Post. Schelly Dardashti e-mail address: schelly@allrelative.net http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/01/03/JewishWorld/ History of Skalat - includes information from the 1971 Skalat Yizkor book, and a list of members researching families from Skalat http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/Skalat/skalat.html A visit the Skalat Holocaust Memorial in the Holon Cemetery, which can be viewed from the Skalat site at SRRG. The page for the memorial is labeled "New". You'll also find a 'Trip Report' including photos. The Skalaters Association in Israel is planning to visit and dedicate a memorial consisting of Jewish gravestones that had been used as building material, in July 2002. This memorial was constructed in a corner of the former cemetery now being used by a nearby school as a soccer field. At the edge of the soccer field, there is some fifteen gravestones, neatly stacked. There is also a Holocaust memorial outside the town. This memorial includes about twenty gravestones that had been taken from the cemetery, standing around the central memorial. So that the stones would all be of the same height, some were cut at the bottoms, where the names appeared. Further information can be obtained from Haim Braunstein 03 618 3213 or 40 Hibat Zion, Ramat Gan 52408, Israel. For an accurate first person description of "A Visit To Skalat", http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip/Skalat.htm Yizkor Book - "Skalat; Kovets Zikaron Le-Kehila she-Harva ba-Shoa" - http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Skvira http://nachshen.com/gazeteer.htm "The old cemetery
has been destroyed. The between wars cemetery is in the back and pretty
overgrown. The post WW2 cemetery is in the front, has 100-200 stones and is
maintained. There are also 3 mass murder sites there marked by memorials.
One of the memorials lists the family names of the people who were killed
there." Skovyatin - (Polish: Skowiatyn) Borszczow district in Tarnopol region was part of Austro-Hungarian Empire. The town is located close to the old Russia (Podolia region) - Austria border, but nevertheless it was in Austria, not Russia. Skovyatino Located at 5848 3723, near Cherepovets Skubyatino Located at 5519 3104 near Belarusian border is situated only 15 miles from the known Jewish town Surazh (Surazh-Vitebskiy, Surz) in the Vitebsk region Slavuta Located in the
Khmel'nyts'ka Oblast, Slavutskii District.
There are records available in the Ukrainian Archives. There is information available at http://www.huri.harvard.edu/abb_grimsted/L-1.html http://www.lemko.org/genealogy/oblasts.html Slovechno http://jewage.org/wiki/en/Special:JImages/Slovechno_Ukraine Slovyansk A web site is located at Smla - a certificate, obtained by Ruth Rosenbloom, indicates: 'That in the Registry Books of the Birth of Jewish people in the town of Smla, Kiev County, in 1885, in the Female Column #88, is an extract that to Zoose Abramovitch Belatsakofske, a reserve discharged from the Russian army, and his wife Mariam Ruhel, was born on June 28, 1885, in Smla, a daughter, to whom was given the name Muse. Town of Smla, 1910, June 8, Smolensk Community of Rabbis.' This translation was done by 'The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society' May 1956 Smila - Sniatyn (G) (Snyatyn) - formerly in Galicia and now located in Ukraine. Most of the Jews were sent to Belzec Camp by the Nazis in April, 1942 and July 9, 1942. The Sniatyn Landsmanshaft has been in continuous existence for more than 100 years and offers a site that includes an historical overview of the town, region maps, old postcards of the town, a long, descriptive and highly interesting interview with a woman who was born in Sniatyn in the first decade of this century, an overview of the Sniatyn Landsmanshaft and its current genealogical activities plus a comprehensive list of the current genealogical holdings The Churches and synagogues wee responsible to recording vital statistics (births and deaths) for the state. The Sniatyn historical books could be in several places: in the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine, L'viv; in the local registry office (ZAHS) in Oblast Archives (Sniatyn is in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast); or in the Polish National Archives (Archives of Ancient Documents in Warszawa). The ZAHS has more recent documents. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Snitkov (Snitovka) - This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Snizhne - Sobolevka - there are 6 different towns named Sobolevka. Sokal - while there are many towns that have the name Sokol, in west Ukraine, there is only one place that has the spelling of Sokal. A map is available at There is a Yizkor Book Sokolovka (Justingrad) - current name is Justingrad and it is located North of Uman on the main road #M20 on the way from Belaya Tserkov and Kiev Soroki (Soroka) - located on the Moldova border, near the Dniester River. Sosnovoye (Selisht) Contact Larry Lavitt. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html Stakhanov - Staneshti de Zhos - the following link to this shtetl 's site has been expanded with the addition of a Memorial List and a List of Survivors "Die Juden in Unter-Stanestie" (The Jews of Unter-Stanestic) and "Unter Stanestie Bukowinaer Circle, Inc." printed in a 20th anniversary booklet and banquet journal. Just follow this site: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html Stanislawow (Stanislav) - east of Warsaw. There are several hundred Jews living in this community and the Rabbi name is Moshe Leib Kolesnik, a local man, trained by Chabad in Moscow. He also helps the smaller Jewish communities of Kolomyia and Buczacz. http://www.geocities.com/pikholc/Trip/community.htm "Chapter Two of The Jews of Stanislawow Province" - authored by Rabbi Moishe Leib Kolesnik in PDF format- includes selected items (by Town) from the Rabbi's Archive Stara Ropa Located in the Stary Sambir rayian (district) in the L'viv oblast in Western Ukraine. It is listed under the neighboring parish of Starya Sol (Russian spelling) in the book about the L'viv Oblast - "Istoria Horodovy i Sel Ukraininskoi SSR - Lvovskaya Oblast". There are 26 volumes, see Volume 6. There are also volumes of a Soviet Encyclopedia in English. Stara Syniava (Stara Sieniawa) The Jewish population, or Kehila, in this, the Czartoryski Territories in 1776, obtained from Appendix I of the book "The Lords' Jews, Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 18th Century" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 851. Staro Konstantinov (Old Constantine aka Novokonstantin) [New Constantine]) A city in Volynska Oblast and is about 80 miles from Zhitomir. It was an important Jewish center, it produced a number of scholars, and it was an important center of Chasidism. This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock A description of what a flour mill operation run by Jews was like in Russia in the early 1900s was discussed by JWeintraub@FULLERTON.EDU on JewishGen 11-19-02 Stary Sambor is the Polish and Austrian official place name (Staryy Sambir, Staryi Sambir, Samor) . A map is available at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Contact Laurel White. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Staro Zakrevsky - This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Stavishche (Stavisht) - "Stavisht" Yizkor Book - http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html Stepan ( Stefan, Szczepan) - located along the Horyn River. The remains of a fortification gate can be found under the Shul, along with a tunnel that connected two fortresses. A translation of some of the stories that occurred in this shtetl from 1939 on "Ayaratenu Stepan" (Our City Stepan) - Contact Daniel G. Shimshak. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Storojinet (Stordjinet) http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/storojinet/ T here is an excellent site for further information about this old Jewish village located near the Carpathian mountains. It was once part of Romania (Bukovina). The site offers old pictures of the Rigler family and pictures of what the town looks like nowhttp://www.geocities.com/storojinet Haim Cohen's Storojinet Memorial Page Strels'k (Polish: Strzeliska Nowe, now known as Novyye Strelishcha, Ukraine, Strel'sk, Stril's'k) Located 50 km SE of L'viv in what used to be known as Bobrka county. There is also a small town called Strel'sk northeast of L'vov and close to the Belarus border and still another one (Strelsk) located near Kiev and in the Volhyn Province. It is a few kilometers north of Sarny, Ukraine, and about 75 km north of Rivne, Ukraine. Yizkor Book
for Strel'sk, Ukraine "List of Holocaust Victims from Strels'k" - http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html Strusov (G)
Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Stryhantsi First mentioned in 1578. The name come from Ukrainian word "stryhty" - to cut (usually hair, to make a haircut or to cut something with scissors) Village shop in Stryhantsi, tel.: +380 3548 31183 Village club in Stryhantsi, tel.: +380 3548 31187 Stryy (G) (Stryj-Polish; Stryi, Stryia and Stry) Located in Western Ukraine (formerly Eastern Galicia) about 40 miles south of L'viv. A Jewish community has been in existence since the late 1500s. In 1772 the town became part of the Austrian Empire. At that time there were abut 440 Jewish families. It became a part of Poland after WW I. In 1921 there were 10,988 and about 12,000 in 1939. For information, maps and book resources "Sefer Stryj" (Book of Stryj); "Extermination of the Jews of Stryj and Vicinity" (Emergence of Genocide in Galicia and Resettlement Transports to Belzec Extermination Camp); "The Town of Stryj Without Jews" (Memoir of Schaje Schmerier); "Schupo-Kriegsverbrecher von Stryj vor dem Wiener Volksgericht" (The Protective Police War Criminals of Stryj Tried By the People's Court) More information available at Suchostav (G) A shtetl and a region that is 226 miles west southwest of Kiev and was a part of Galicia. Within a 25 mile radius are Buchach, Khorostkov, Chortkov and Husiaty. To the northwest, is the Poland border and to the south is the Romania border. There is much to learn from this site http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/ Four hundred photos of gravestones can be viewed at http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/ Thomas Weiss tfweiss@mit.edu is the webmaster for the Rozniatow and Suchostav Web pages Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Strzalkowce (now Stshalkoytse) about four miles from Borshchev. Suceava County - located in the southern half of the area formerly known as Bukovina. The northern portion of Bukovina is now part of the Ukraine. This site includes maps Suchostaw Region Research Group The SRRG includes the following Administrative Districts (AD) and Judicial Districts (JD): Sudak - Sudilkov - Paul W. Ginsburg, Webmaster of the excellent Sudilkov On-line Landsmanshaft site at Sukhivtsi - located 5 km north of Terpylivka Sumy - located in central north part of country. A number of Sumy web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html Surazh - located near Bryansk and was in different Guberniyas at various times. Records may be held in the Bryansk Archive Sushchin (Sushchyn, Suszczyn) is located SSE from Ternopil Sverdlovsk - Svezhkovtse - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Svidova - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Svitlovodsk - Szimerki - located in Zakarpatia Oblast. For record searching, you need to contact the Uzhhorod Archives in and the respective registries. Szumsk - "Sefer Zikaron le-Kedoshei Szumsk" (Szumsk ... Memorial Book of the Martyrs of Szumsk) -
Talnoye (Tolna, Tulna, Talno)
The former Yiddish name is Tolna -107.3 miles South and West of Kiev and today is in the Cherkassy Region. It is 38 km northeast of Uman. Click here for photos and a brief story about the town - located in Kiev oblast. In 1847 there were 1,807 Jews and by 1897 their number reached 5,452 (57% of the total population). Before WW II, there were 4,169 Jews. Most of the records (1884-1848) for Uman and possibly Talnoye, (it has been reported), are in the State Archives of Cherkassy Oblast. Tal'ne in Ukrainian, or Tal'noye in
Russian, is in the former Kiev Guberniya between Uman
and Zvenigorodka. This URL should produce a map showing both
Ostropol' and Tal'noye, so you can see that Tal'noye was perhaps a few hundred miles from
Ostropol'. The Twersky Rabbinical line comes from
Talnoye. Rabbi Y. Twersky, Talner Congregation, 64 Corey Road, Brookline, Mass. 02146 and Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Mass 02138. The Mayor's office is at The city suffered severely from bands of peasants who ravaged the region in 1919-20. The soldiers of the White Army who passed through Talnoye during the summer of 1919 rioted and burnt down a large part of the city. In 1926 there were 4,169 Jews (39% of the population). The Jewish settlement was destroyed after the region was taken by the Nazis in 1941. The Jews were led out of the town believing they were going to board a ship to take them to Palestine. There is a memorial at the place where they were all machine gunned down and dumped into a mass grave, just outside of town. Talnoye - Personally visited by Ted & Shirley Margulis in August, 1995. The Mayor, at the time, said that they were the first American Jews to ever had visited the town. There are just a few older Jews still living in this farm area although there are several younger people who do not claim to be Jewish, but most likely are. During the 1930s, an archeological dig discovered a very early settlement just outside of the shtetl and there is the "Castle" now used as a Town Museum that hold many artifacts from the past years. The cemetery is located on the outskirts of the city, about 38 km northeast of
Uman, and is in the Kiev Oblast. The site is reached by turning directly off a public road. Access is open to all with no wall, fence or gate surrounding the area. The cemetery is many hectares. Five gravestones are in their original location, but many are in the new section. Most are buried beneath earth and grass. Vegetation is a problem in the newer parts of the cemetery. The granite finely smoothed and inscribed stones or double tombstones, some with portraits on the stones, are inscribed in Yiddish and Russian/Ukrainian. Irene Silfin visited the town in July, 1995. A typical 19th century kitchen as depicted in the Museum in Talnoye. The lone synagogue in Talnoye is in major disrepair and the original Jewish cemetery has been paved over as a playground for a public school today. The original tombstones have been used as paving materials although some can still be seen lying on the hillside that leads to the nearby river. Just outside of the shtetl is a mass grave, marked by two small stone pyramids The plaques attached indicates that 5,871 Jews were murdered by the Fascists in August, 1941. What happened was that the German Einsatzgruppen Group C herded the Jews of the town, and surrounding areas, after telling them they would be walking to Odessa to board a ship to Palestine. As they approached this site, German machine gunners mowed them down. Today, Talnoye is in the Cherkassy Region. Kiev Guberniya was broken up into several different Regions when the Soviets took over." There is a
Talnoye Group which has it's own web site and mailing list "Memoirs of Mischa Elman's Father" - out of print but written in 1933 and may be available from a public library. Mischa left Talnoye as a young boy and after his conservatory studies, went to London and then to the U.S.
Tarasha - about 1.5 hour drive southwest of Kiev. There is remnants of a Jewish cemetery with the oldest stone dated 1892, though the majority of those stones prior to WW II were bulldozed or overgrown with vines. Jacqueline Garrick visited the cemetery in 2003: 301 942 8817 Tarashcha (Tarasca in Yiddish; Tarashtcha in German and Trarsza in Polish) - located 122 km from Kiev and has a town population of somewhere between 5,000 and 25,000 with between 11 to 100 Jews. Jews from here were buried in a mass grave at Medvin during the Holocaust. Town Officials addresses are at Tarnorudka (G) (Tarnoruda in Polish) is located in the Tarnopol province. In 1921, it had 571 people with 148 of them being Jewish. It is located southeast from Tarnopol Podvolochisk (Polish: Podwololyczyska) and is on the border of the Zbruch River between Satanov and Podvolochisk and 10 miles south of Podvolochisk. It is a historical border town dividing Poland from Soviet Union in the interwar period. During this same period, the town was under the town of Skalat administration. Further information can be found in the Archives of the Gesher Galicia SIG. Alexander Sharon wrote up this subject town on January 5, 2001 and also Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Teleshovka Located near Kiev. The Jewish Cemetery in this shtetl is in poor condition and contains many mass graves. Terebovlia (Terebovlya) (G) - (see Trembowla) It was once a part of Galicia.
You can find a map of Trembowla (Terebovlia) district or province at the US
Library of Congress Map and Geography Division
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/ Yizkor Book Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html Ternopil From 1772 to 1919, it was in Austria's Galizien Crownland (Galicia) During this time it's name was spelled Tarnopol. Prior to that it was in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. From the end of WW I to 1939 it was in Poland and was spelled Tarnopol. Then it was in the Soviet Ukraine and now Ukraine. During the Soviet era it was spelled Ternopol, now it is spelled Ternopil. (see Tarnopol, Ternopol, Tarnopol, Tarnopolu) - photos, history and a monument at http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm There are/were about 400 Jews living in the area in 2005. David Feinstein is considered the head of the Jewish Community of Ternopil Oblast.
Birth records from 1866 to 1897 and marriage records from 1878 to 1897are available at Photo of Old Synagogue Carl R. Migden crmigden@aol.com has a present day map/plan of Ternopil though it is in the Ukrainian language.
Ternopil Archives
Ternopil City Maps Page Many churches are beautifully photographed, Descriptions are in Cyrillic, See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry'
Ternopol Oblast Archives - State Archives of Ternopol Oblast, Ukraine, Derzhavnyi Arkhiv Ternopilskoi Oblasti, 282000, Ternopol, vul. Sahaidachnoho 14, Ukraina. Derzhavnyi Arkhiv Ternopilskoi Oblasti Director is Bogdan Khavarivsky. Phone (0352) 224495 Fax: (0352) 228618 The Archives
has census documents (Revizskaya Skazka) to before 1735 according to
Ron Doctor's Ukraine Journal A number of Ternopol web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Ternovka (Tarnovka)
The town is at the edge of the Podolia District, bordering on the Kiev
District.132.8 miles South of Kiev Tetiev - (Tetijev—Tetiyev—Tetievo—Tetiewo—Tetiyiv—Tetiew—Tatiew—Tetiw—Tetyiow (Polish)—Titeyow—Titejov—TeTiïb/TETIÏB (Cyrillic) Located 70 miles south southwest of
Kiev and near Belaya Tserkov, a larger town. In the Kiev Guberniya. It is most noted as the scene of a massacre in 1920 that left about 5,000 dead. a new site contains extensive information about this time including the history of
Tetiever emigrant organizations, death and survivor lists, photographs Tilsit (Sovetsk) Located in the
Tulskaya Oblast Tlumach (G) (Tlumacz (Polish); Tlomats (Yiddish), Once a part of
Galicia. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Tlumacz - "Tlumacz - Tlomitsch Sefer Edut ve - Zikaron" (Memorial Book of Tlumacz) - http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html Tolstoye (G) (Tlusta (Yiddish), Tluste (German), Tluste Miasto (Hungarian), Tluste Wies (Slovak), Touste (Polish), Tovste (Czech), Toyste (English) - once a part of Galicia Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Tomashpol - in "The Shtetl: Image and Reality", edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov and published by The University of Oxford in 2000, Alla Sokolova's study is entitled "The Podolian Shtetl as Architectural Phenomenon." The author describes the general layout of the town and discusses the architecture and interiors of many of the buildings she visited. Torez - Transnistria - "Reminiscences of Transnistria" - http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html Trembowla (G) (Terebovlia)- is now in Ukraine but was once located in Poland and specifically in Galicia. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Tributkhovtsy - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Trochinbrod - (Zofiowka) Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Trostyanets (G) (Troscianiec) - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html Truskavets - Tuchin - (Tuczyn, Tutshin, Tuchin-Krippe) Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Tudorov (G) -
Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Tulchin - Located south of Breslov in Vinnitsa province "I have been getting mail from people who are searching for people http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=808&letter=C#2748 http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~shtetm~-1056838 Turja Remeta - For record searching, you need to contact the Uzhhorod Archives and the respective registries. Tysmenitza (G) (Tysmenitsa, Tismenitsie,Tysmienica) - A Yizkor Book "A Memorial to the ruins of a Destroyed Jewish Community" is currently being translated - Contact Susannah R. Juni. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Ulashkovtse (G) (Ulashkivitsi) - once part of Galicia Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at A wide angle view, found in a brochure, of the main street of Uman Uman Located 115.9 miles South of Kiev - half way between Kiev and Odessa, it is also the burial place of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. (It was known also as 'Koliivshchyna') Each anniversary of his death, Chasidic members of his clan converge on this town. Uman is the largest town nearest to Talnoye, my father's shtetl. The 1848-1884 records are in Kiev Historical Archives. There are at least two Jewish cemeteries - one old and one fairly new. A
Uman web site is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uman Battle of Uman Ungmegye This town was once located in Hungary, but now is in Ukraine. It is about 15 miles ESE from Ungvar Ushitsa - Nova Ushitsa (New Ushitsa) Also known as Ushitsa and Oyshits in Podolia region at 4850 2717. This town is located on the Dniester River and it had population of close to 2000 Jewish souls prior to WWII . Near by (some 18 miles apart) Staraya Ushitsa (Old Ushitsa) at 4835 2706 had also a sizeable Jewish population of close to 1000 souls. "Ushitser" describes in Yiddish a man from Ushitsa. This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Ustilug (Uscilug, Austilla) Located in Volhyn Guberniya and is fairly close to Vladmir-Volynsk, the capital of Volhynia. Zhitomir was the capitol 100 years ago. Ustye Formerly known as Uscie Biskupie when located in Galicia. Thee was a Landsmanshaftn Society for this town that was called "First Uscie-Biskupier Unterstuetzungs Verein". It was located at 14 E. 28th St. New York, NY 10016. Peter Haas has some information: phaas2@comcast.net
Uzhhorod (Uzhgorod) Located in the
Zakarpats'ka Oblast on-line at http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/ A number of
Uzhorod web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html http://www.geocities.com/uzhgorod2001/ http://travel.kyiv.org/map/e_uzh.htm http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/uzhgorod.html http://travel.kyiv.org/uatowns/ http://www.heritagefilms.com/uzhgorod.htm http://www.castles.org/castles/Europe/Eastern_ http://www.uwex.edu/ces/susag/other/uzhgorod.html Uzhorod City Maps Page Vasilikov Located near Vilna.
See also Lithuania http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/Grodno/soko.htm Velyky Hlubichok It is a Raion or district administrative center and about 10 km northwest of the city of Ternopil in the Ternopil oblast. It means "Greater Hlubichok" Velikiye Mosty -(Gross Moster) Formerly in Galicia, Austria-Hungary and now in Ukraine - 28.4 miles NNE of L'viv. "Most'" means bridge in Russian, and the plural is Mosty. "Gross" means big in German. Velikiye Mosty means big bridges in Russian, and the Ukrainian version of the name should be similar. Velykiv Bychkiv (Bychkov, Zakarpastska) Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html Verbovtsy Located in Vinnytska Oblast. The Vinnytska Archive houses Jewish records . Vignanka (G)
Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Vilok Located near Chernivtsi. For Jewish records, contact the Chernivetska Oblast Archives. Vilyavche - (Vilyavtsy) It has retained their name. Village is located at 4820 2522, West of Snyatyn and Chernivtsi in Bukovina region of Ukraine. Korytnoye is adjacent to Vilyaviche - village is situated less than one mile distance to the East. WOWW gazetteer identifies village as having prewar population of 320 Jewish souls. It also indicates that Vilyavche alternative name was Vilauchea. It was common for localities within Bukovina and Bessarabia (Moldova) regions to have Russian/Ukrainian/Romanian names. Willawczer is Yiddish - a variations or rather it is associated with the "Willawchers" Landsmanshaftn folks from Vilyaviche Vinkovtsy Located in the Khmelnitsky Oblast. Vinniki
"Khurbn Jaryczow bay Lemberg; Sefer Zikaron le-Keshoshei Jaryczow y-Sevivoteha" (Destruction of Jaryczow: Memorial Book to the Martyrs of Jarczow and Surroundings Ukraine) Vinnitsa (Vinnytsya, Vizhnitsa) Located in
Vinnytska Oblast, the Podolskaya Guberniya and is in an area west of
Kiev Guberniya. The Vishnitzer Hasidic Dynasty began here. They are still in Israel and New York. A database of record is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained at
Vinnytska Oblast
Vinnitsa Travel and Tourism A number of Vinnitsa web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Video Images from Vinnitsa' s Jewish Community Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Vinogradov (Sollos, Selvus, Nagysollos)
"The Book of Remembrance to the Community of Sollus and Vicinity" - Vishnevets - (Wisnowiec, Wishnowitz, Wishnewitz, Wisnewitz) http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/vishnevets/vishnevets.html There is an old Jewish cemetery
Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Vishnye Bystra Located in the Carpathian Mountain, now in the
Ukraine, but previously it was part of Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Links connect to maps, family memoirs, pictures and links to other Carpathian Jewish sites. Webmaster is Karin Wandrei kwandrei@pacific.net Volhynia (Volhynia, Wolin,Volinskaya, Wolyn, Wolina, Wolinsk, Volinski, Wolinski, Volenskii, Wolenskj, Wolenskja, Volin, Volyn ) A Russian Guberniya until 1917. Polish province of Wolyn between WW I and II. Today, it is located in northwestern Ukraine. Zhitomir is the main city. Vital records for Volhynia Volhynia Guberniya Map Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Volkovintsy This town is mentioned in
"The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Volochisk - (Volotchisk, Volochyska, Wolochisk, Woloczysk, Wolocyska) The distance between
Kharkov and Volochisk, is 450 miles (725 kilometers. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Volodymyr-Volynskyi http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Volokhskiye Makharintsy [voloh skee yeh mah kah reen tsee] Located near Kazatin, the matzo soup belt between the Vinitza and Zhitomir. Town coordinates are: 4943 2855 Volvograd (formerly known as Stalingrad) "Stalingrad: The Movie and the Reality" - the latest historical event to get the full Hollywood treatment. Battle of Stalingrad, the massive 1942 struggle between the Germans and the Russians. It was the biggest battle ever of land forces. The fighting went on for months, millions were killed and wounded and the city was reduced to rubble. The Russians won. This battle, more than any other single factor, spelled doom for the third Reich. My half-brother, Moshe, fought at this battle and today, I am the proud possessor of some of the medals he earned from this terrible experience. Volyn (Lutsk) and Rivne oblasts were under Poland domination between the Wars. Zhitomir oblast was part of USSR. In 1925 it was Wolenska Guberniya and a part of Poland. Wolinsky and Padolsk are the adjectival forms of Wolyn (Volhynia) and Podolia. It is located in the northwestern Ukraine. Zhitomir is the main city. Information about the city and the area can be found at Jewish Partisans and Fighters of Volyn in their Memory http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html Map of Russia's Volhynia Guberniya A photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html Vonkovtsy - located in Ushitsa Uyezd Vorvolintse (G) - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Voynilov (G) - (Wojnilow) Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Vulshinki - located in Zakarpatia. For record searching, you need to contact the Uzhorod Archives in and the respective registries. Vynohradiv - located in Vynogradivs'kyi Raion, Zakarpastska Oblast Vyshgorod - Yablanov (G) (Jablonow, Yablonow, Yablonuv) - once located in Galicia Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Yalta - Several Yalta web sites are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Yagelnitsa (G) - Contact Constance Cowen. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at http://www.jewishgen.org/Shtetlinks/ukraine.html Yampol The town was visited by Ron Doctor where he discovered a new building had been erected over the gravesites of two rabbis. a man named "Moishe" from New York paid for the construction. Three weeks before his visit, the workmen, on their own initiative, retrieved 25 Matzevot that had been thrown into the river by the Soviets during communist rule.
"Ayara be-le-Havot; Pinkas Yampola, Pelekh Volyn" (A City in Flames, Memorial Book of Yampol) Yanova Dolina - was much smaller than a shtetl - a dorf. The Jews were killed in WW II Yarchev - located about 15 miles from L'viv. Contact Errol Schneegurt ESES@aol.com who is translating a Yizkor Book from Yiddish to English. Yaremche - Yarmolinitsy (Yarmolinitsy) - there are records available in the Ukrainian Archives. This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Yaruga - in "The Shtetl: Image and Reality", edited by Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov and published by The University of Oxford in 2000, Alla Sokolova's study is entitled "The Podolian Shtetl as Architectural Phenomenon." The author describes the general layout of the town and discusses the architecture and interiors of many of the buildings she visited. Yenakiyeve - Yevpatoriya - A number of Yevpatoriya web sites (some in English) are located at Yozuvka (Azonka) - previously known as Stalino in the mid '30s and renamed Donetsk. See Donetsk for further information. A map of this mining area can be found at Zabolotov - (Zablatov, Zablotov, Zablowtow, Zablotuv, Zablutov, Zabolotiv) located in Ivano-Frankovskya. It is 50 km from Chernovitsy, 70 km from Ivano-Frankovsk and 20 km from Sniatyn. http://home.adelphia.net/~rschechter/zaboloto.htm "Ir u metim; Zablotow ha Melea ve-ha-Hareva" ( A City and the Dead; Zablotow Alive and Destroyed) - Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Zakarpats'ka Oblast - The L'viv Archive may have records (in Russian, though this search engine does have some English pages) http://www.archives@cl.lv.ukrtel.net/ Zalischyky - (Zalescikia, Zaleshchik, Zaleshchiki, Zaleshchyki, Zaleshiki, Zaleszczyki, Zalishchiki) http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/zaleshchiki/zalishchyky.htm Zalizci (Polish =Zalozce ) - a town on the Seret river and about 20 miles northwest of Ternopol. It is in Zvoriv Guberniya. Before the war, it had a population of about 6,350 which included 850 Jews. Zaporizhzhya - (Zaporizhzhia) A number of Zaporizhzhya web sites (some in English) are located at Zaslav now known as Zaslav Zalozce (G) (Zalosce, Zalozcy, Zalozce, Zalozitz) - once located in Galicia Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Zastinka - a map is available at Zbarash (Zbaraz) Zboriv Zhabokrich (Kryzhopol) - Contact Charles Lapkoff. Regional Special Interest Groups: Ukraine SIG, Galicia SIG and Hungary SIG information is available at Zhabyn - located in the Ternopol Oblast and there are maps available at http://www.calle.com/ http://www.infoukes.com/ua-maps/oblasts/oblast02/i06.jpg Zhashkov - There is a brief description of the town and its way of life in the
Zhitomir (Zhytomyr, Jitomir, Shitomir/Zhytomyr, Zhytomir) - (there are at least 28 different spellings for the name of this city) - a city in and is the center for the administrative center in Ukraine. It is located 103 miles (165 km) in Zhytomyrska Oblast (Bogunskiy Raion) 82.5 miles west of Kiev on the Teterev River. In 1793 it belonged to Russia. The population as of 1989 was 292,000. The Zhitomir Oblast borders on the north with Belarus; on the east by the Kiev Oblast; on the south by the Vinnitsa Oblast and on the west by the Khmelnytsky and Rovno Oblasts. The total population in 1989 for the entire Oblast was 1,545,000. Founded in 884. Zhyto means rye. A database of records is currently being developed, and further information can be obtained at The Central State Historical, The State Administration Archives of Ukraine of Zhitomir District, the Main Administration of Ukraine, Department of Information, Papakin, G.V., The State Historical Archives of Zhitomir District, 262014 City of Zhitomir, 2 Ohrimova Hora Street #20, Director: V. A. Poplavska In an e-mail dated 8/13/1997, Anton S. Valdine geneal@glasnet.ru offered the contact name of Epfim Melamed of this city as alex0polesye.zhitomir.ua This information about Mr. Melamed was mentioned originally in a previous issue of Avotaynu Map of the Zhitomir area in detail is located at Map of Zhytomir in the early part of the Twentieth Century A number of Zhitomir web sites (some in English) are located at http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html See also a photo gallery entitled 'The Vanishing World of Ukrainian Jewry' http://pages.prodigy.net/euroscope/jewishworld.html Shapiro Brothers - a printing company located in Zhitomir around 1853 is mentioned in a posting on JewishGen by Merle Kastner on February 24, 2002 Zhivotov - a shtetl located about 93.7 miles south southwest of Kiev. Zhmerinka - This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Zhovkva - (Zolkiew, Zholkva in Yiddish, Nesterov during the Soviet era, and Zolkiew in Polish) It is about
twenty miles north of Lemberg (L'viv and L'vov). It was a
former artists' colony. Jews settled here at the end of the 16th
century. A synagogue, built in 1700 and one of the largest in Galicia, still stands in this village.
The pink Renaissance-style exterior and some inner frescoes and the Ark have
survived and now sits empty. Vital records for Zhoukva and the surrounding towns are held at the AGAD archive. Zhovti Vody http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html Zhydachiv http://www.geocities.com/prysjan/in_61.html http://prostir.museum/museums/en/show?c=88 Zinkov This town is mentioned in "The Road from Letichev" - authored by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock Zloczow - located in the Tarnopol Province, Galicia - currently known as Zolochiv, Ternopil Oblast. Znesen'ye - records of this village, which was before 1918 in Galicia, Austria between 1918 to 1939 in Poland are kept mostly in Warsaw and some in L'viv. Further information can be found in "Find Your Jewish Roots in Galicia" - authored by Suzan F. Wynne. Zolochiv (Zolochev) - Zolotonoska - a rail junction, located in the southwest part of the Poltava Oblast. In 1926 it had a population of 15,482. Zurawniki - a map of the area Zvenigorodka (Zvenygorod) - a small village southeast of Kiev Names from Zvenigorodka are included in the list of eligible voters for http://www.rac.org/social/shtetl01.html Zvhil - today it is known as Zvhil-Novograd Volynska (Polonnoye) and is located 94 km east of Rovno. Zvyagel (Novograd-Volynskiy) - Zynkow (Zin'kiv) - located in Letichev Uyezd. The Jewish population, or Kehila, in this, the Czartoryski Territories in 1776, obtained from Appendix I of the book "The Lords' Jews, Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 18th Century" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 522.
Click here for additional Ukrainian maps Travel and
There are two types of suitable Visas: Tourist - this visa application must include a travel itinerary prepared by a travel agency. Private - where you do not use a travel agency, but in both cases you must be registered with the local police and/or with a hotel you stay at. Slava, a guide-interpreter (English, French, Arabic, Persian and Russian) offers both these services plus handling accommodations in Kiev. Phone +380 44 4931377 There is a very well done interactive route planner devised by a group in Holland called Route 66. By typing in the starting points and the destinations, according to the way they are spelled in the program, the program will display the total distance in kilometers, expected travel time; and a lot more Distances between major cities in Ukraine - Internet Access in Ukraine - The Internet Bar, located adjacent to the Sports Palace and the Olympic Stadium is directly behind the Hotel Rus. Charges are 7 grv for the 1st hour and 6 grv per hour after that in 15 minute segments. It is a 24/7 business with an English speaking attendant on duty at all times. The computers are new; the baud rate is 56K and they are setup in either Cyrillic or English. Kiev Hotels Hotel Andrievsky (Andrews) is located on Andrievsky Spusk. It is about $40 a night for two, clean with a clean shower in the room, along with a TV. Within walking distance of most of the downtown sights. Hotel Express - a report indicates that this is not a luxury hotel, but it was spotlessly clean, including the bathroom for $13.00 a night. The only reported drawback was that the shower was on a different floor. About a 15 minute walk straight out the doors of the train station and close to a metro station. See also my 'Traveling Roots' "Lonely Planet Travel Book" - Oksana Ukrainian Travel Service offers various travel assistance programs and is located in Kiev. This service has clean, modern private apartments in downtown Kiev renting for about $30 a night; and offers these other services: airport transportation; guide-interpreter in both English and French; airline and train transportation arrangements and much more. Oksana is also working on developing a staff to work with the various Ukrainian Archives. He can be contacted via e-mail at oksana@trav.kiev.ua "Personal Experience of Traveling Ukraine and Crimea" - very interesting story of a non Jewish person's experiences as he travels from Kiev to the Crimea and select About Us or go directly to this site if you are looking for a translation service; hotel booking service; Invitation service and a mailing service, where you will find a price list of these, and other services available if you scroll down further. The site is apparently owned by the person who owns the cafe. "Personal History: Buried Homeland" by Aharon Appelfeld is available on-line Rail Travel in the Ukraine - travel tickets can be purchased from this company for travel within or from Ukraine to neighboring countries The link to the Ukrainian State Railways timetable search engine is Ron Doctors Travel Diary - Ron's personal diary of his three week trip to Poland and Ukraine. Contact Ron Doctor "Travel Guides to the Ukraine" , includes maps, guides to lodgings and other resources There are other Ukrainian links at this site that may also be of interest. Consider also joining Ukrainian Travel - a web discussion community relating to traveling in Ukraine --- Subscribe UkrainianTravel-subscribe@onelist.com or a shortcut Ukrainian Travel - try this list if you plan on traveling to Ukraine. This list is comprised of Ukrainians living in Ukraine who can offer advise and accommodations. Ukrainian Travel - included at this web site are today's weather and forecasts for Kharkiv, Kyiv, L'viv and Odessa; an alphabetical list of Ukrainian cities with their city codes; visa information, travel agencies, Ukrainian Fact Book, travel tips, useful phrases and a conversion chart for clothing sizes, currency information and a currency converter Uzbek Air and Air Ukraine -
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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).
"L'viv Sightseeing Guide" - a nicely organized publication with maps, including separate sections dealing with museums and cemeteries.
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