The Zhitomir Civil Registration Office
This picture was part of the wedding package given to new brides and grooms who were married in Zhitomir in the Soviet Union and was provided by the generosity of Alex Kopelberg
That government building still holds many important records and vital records remain available from Zhitomir. The Census and Vital Record Extracts Provided by the generosity of Naomi Moderick show the types of births, marriages, and death records available. In addition to the family names that were most interesting to her, Naomi's extract gives us a clear look at the records available and names other parties such as homeowners possibly unrelated to the subjects of the records.
Zhitomir has dozens of possible English language spellings of its name. The records of immigrants to the United States from the last residence of Zhitomir (including Zitomer, Jitomer and the soundex variants) as well as from those misread by indexers as Fitomer and Litomer will be posted here November 10, 2005 in an article entitled Emigrants through Ellis Island with a last residence of Zhitomir. I am hoping that we will be able to find volunteers to create a Third Party Index of people named in the "old country" and at the destination point.
The ANNOPOLSKY and VUGMAN family
Here is a picture, from Zhitomir, of my mother and her parents, grandmother, & siblings, just before they came to this country. My oldest uncle was in the US already. ... They landed in Canada and the records of their arrival suffered in an archival fire in Canada. I have pretty much determined what ship they came on but the manifest was obviously soaked with water and not one name is legible, only the front page of the ship and departure and arrival dates.
The girl standing to the extreme left is Esther ANNOPOLSKY, the woman in the babushka is my great-grandmother, Rivka VUGMAN, between Rivka and my gf is Tsipa ANNOPOLSKY, seated is my grandfather, Avrum-Volf (Velvel) ANNOPOLSKY, in front of him is my mother Shaindel ANNOPOLSKY, then standing is Chia ANNOPOLSKY, the little boy in front of her is Faivel ANNOPOLSKY, seated in front of him is Gisel ANNOPOLSKY, and the woman on the right, pregnant with my youngest uncle is my grandmother Maram VUGMAN ANNOPOLSKY. - this information and the photograph is provided by the generosity of Naomi Moderick
There are many people whose families originate in Zhitomir. This is the place that we can collect their photos and records. Send them to me and I will post them here.
Zhitomir synagogue
with community's house for the Rabbi
modern photograph
Zhitomir train station pre 1914
Zhitomir Shopping Street, early 20th century
Zhitomir's electric trolley (first quarter of twentieth century)
Zhitomir Intersection - Bulvara and Berdichev Streets
These pictures of Zhitomir landmarks and common sites including Zhitomir Cinema 1946 and a typical Zhitomir house (this particular house is noted as "the house where Y.Dombrovskiy [a leader of the Paris Commune in 1871]was born") were provided by Alex Kopelberg, a Zhitomir native now living in Israel. The other modern pictures below were also from Mr. Kopelberg's private collection of pictures and postcards taken of Zhitomir when it was in the Soviet Union.
Modern landmarks like the fountains in Zhitomir's parks form part of Zhitomir's cultural and physical landscape as do long time focal points like the 18th Century St. Sophia's Catholic Church. Again Alex Kopelberg provided these as well as pictures of Zhitomir's modern high school, colleges, and elder care facilities. His generosity and willingness to share details on his birthplace are a great help. I am just waiting for some older pictures of schools and hospitals to post with his more recent ones.
We are fortunate that a fine modern photographer has agreed to our posting those of his Zhitomir images that we thought best conveyed the modern pride that this still functioning Jewish community and its recent emigrants, have in their city and in their heritage. Please go to this introduction page Zhitomir Images - Photos of Public Views and Private Visions or you can go directly to any of the five pages of this exhibit:
Click Zhitomir Photo Collection #1by Vyacheslav Mayboroda displaying the public buildings of Zhitomir.
Click Zhitomir Photo Collection #2, to see the next grouping of Mr Mayboroda's photos- houses.
Click Zhitomir Photo Collection #3 to see Commercial Buildings from Pre World War II, still in use.
Click Zhitomir Photo Collection #4 to see images of Zhitomir's parks and monuments.
Click Zhitomir Photo Collection #5 to see Zhitomir's modern streets.
This is a selection of Mr Mayboroda's work by the web page creator and necessarily can not include all of the fine materials that he has created.
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