Cherkassy Collection Point

Cherkassy in Kiev Gubernia

A Cherkassy View of 1917

Cherkassy, a vibrant and vital city of the Ukraine, still has a significant Jewish community, in numbers that show why the Ukraine remains the fourth largest home to Jews in the world. Its Jewish community center and services are the hub of Jewish social services across the Cherkassy Oblast. We invite its current residents and recent emigrants to share their memories of their community and we invite those whose grandparents and great-grandparents were the émigrés to tell their stories while they are still remembered.

The history of this city on the Dnieper is old including the history of its Jewish community. As we use this as a gathering place for records and details of its Jewish history, we need you to contribute your family pictures and your information on what you know about your ancestors' lives here. We thank Florence Elman for being the first to share family photos taken here

People interested in organizing or joining research groups, volunteer projects, and Birds of a Feather Groups centered in Cherkassy or its surrounding communities are invited to email us, as are those with pictures and family-preserved and archive-found records at, Ukraine SIG Interactive Database Projects

Cherkassy by 1910

Family Photos

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Gotlibovich Family-1910
Basheva, Esther, Ilya & Yehuda GOTLIBOVICH - c. 1910 in Cherkassy, Kiev, Ukraine - photo and information on the GOTLIBOVICH family photos are by the generosity of Florence NERENBERG Elman

Yehuda GOTLIBOVICH, decades later

GOTLIBOVICH family in Cherkassy c.1924
Ovsey Meir (Yehoshua Meir), Yefim (Chaim Gadiel), & Ovsey's wife Geleya Yankeleva (nee Braginskaya) GOTLIBOVICH c. 1924 in Cherkassy

GOTLIBOVICH family in Cherkassy c.1925
Chaim Gadiel (Yefim), Yehuda, Basya, Esther, Anya & Ilya in Cherkassy - we thank Florence NERENBERG Elman for each of these photos of the GOTLIBOVICH family

The best Greeting Card Ever Sent
Holding a card on which he wrote
"Peace be with you. Regards from the mishpocha; from your father who sends greetings to each seed, seed, seed ... and every one of the children. Pesach Yehudovich Gotlibovich, 17 Tishri 5666"
Pesach GOTLIBOVICH (c1849-1918) is photographed in Cherkassy around 1907.

Gitl GOTLIBOVICH (c.1855-1925)
Gitl , wife to Pesach above, may have thought all the message her children needed, was in her eyes.

Articles about Cherkassy on JewishGen

Marche Route - Escape from Cherkassy by Florence Nerenberg Elman
Research on Cherkassy by Esther Herschman) Rechtschafner

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