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Kovel

Town Leader: Bruce Drake

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1900s Name: Kovel
1900s District: Kovel
1900s Province: Volhynia
1900s Country: Russian Empire

Modern: Kovel, Ukraine
Modern Ukrainian: Ковель  listen town name in ukrainian
Modern Russian: Ковель  listen town name in russian

1930s: Kowel, Kowel, Wołyń, Poland
1950s: Kovel, Soviet Union

Other names: Kovel [Ukr, Rus, Yid], Kowel [Pol], Kovla, Kovle

Coordinates:
51°13'N 24°43'E Mapquest Google Maps

Document and Dataset Collections

NameTime frameView
JOWBR - Kovel Cemetery Informationvarious years
JOWBR has 325 Kovel gravestone listings for various Jewish Cemeteries in the US and Canada. These include Maine, North Carolina, New York, South Carolina, Virginia, Wisconsin, British Columbia (Canada), and Quebec (Canada). Most of them are for New York.
Yizkor Books, Kovel
There are 2 Yizkor Books for Kovel:
"Kowel; sefer edut ve-zikaron le-kehilatenu she-ala aleha ka-koret" [Testimony and memorial book of our destroyed community], Tel Aviv, 1957, and,
"Pinkes Kowel" (Buenos Aires, 1951).
Translation: Only the Necrology of "Pinkes Kowel" has been translated. It is at http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kovel/kovel.html.
  "Kowel ..." is partially translated. The translation is at: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kovel1/kovel1.html
  Necrology translated:  Necrology for "Kowel ...." has not been translated.
Translation of the Necrology for Pinkes Kowel is at: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kovel/kovel.html
USHMM, Registry of Holocaust Survivors, Kovel1939-1945
on SIG website
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Articles

TitleTypeAuthorView
Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), KovelGeneral Reference 
Jewish Encyclopedia, Kovel General Reference 
Pinkas HaKehilot, KovelGeneral Reference 
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