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Ukraine Gubernias 1882
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| Our Prime Objectives as the Ukraine-SIG:
To make resources available that will illuminate Jewish life in
the Russian Empire’s nine Ukrainian gubernias - Podolia, Volhynia, Kherson, Kiev, Ekaterinoslav, Chernigov,
Kharkov, Poltava, and Taurida.
Through group interaction and cooperation:
* To organize and assist in the formation of Regional Special Interest Groups, which can then focus on their
main area of research, and produce separate pages for each gubernia/region.
* To locate and translate available data from Ukrainian archives, from research facilities, and all
repositories around the world, primary documentation of the Jewish experience in the Ukraine including the
Reviskaya lists, Tax lists, Business lists, Property lists, historical material of all types, Yiskor books and
more.
* To prepare databases which will be uploaded and made readily available to all through the JewishGen website.
* To create a pictorial webpage with images of Jewish life and residents of the Ukraine and to create a forum
on that webpage for our members to share their knowledge and research with others.
* To inform our members about archival and other holdings around the world relevant to the Ukrainian origins
of their ancestors, and whom to contact when writing for documents relevant to the Ukraine.
History of the Jews in the Ukraine
Jews (Ukrainian: zhydy, ievreï). Jews first settled on Ukrainian territories in
the 4th century BCE in the Crimea and among the Greek colonies on the northeast coast of the Black
Sea (see Ancient
states on the northern Black Sea coast). From there they migrated to the valleys of the three major rivers—the
Volga River, Don
River, and Dnieper
River—where they maintained active economic and diplomatic relations with Byzantium,
Persia, and the Khazar kaganate.
Read the rest of the history at http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/pages/J/E/Jews.htm |
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 DESCENDANTS
OF A DISAPPEARED TOWN IN UKRAINE
GATHERING
IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
Three generations of
descendants of Jews from Trochenbrod, a wholly Jewish town that once existed in northwestern Ukraine, will
come together in Washington, D.C. to honor the memory of their ancestors and the unique community they had
created. this amazing event will be April 13, 2008, at 4pm, in Washington DC.
Trochenbrod, which no longer
exists, was located in northwestern Ukraine, some 115 miles from Lviv in what had been the Russian Pale of
Jewish Settlement.
In the early 1800s Jews
began settling and farming in the marshy inhospitable area that became Trochenbrod in return for an exemption
of Jewish men from conscription in the Russian army until age 45, as decreed by Czar Alexander I. The village
steadily grew.
During the 1920s and 30s,
Trochenbrod was a thriving town of some 3000 Jews engaged in diversified agricultural, manufacturing, retail,
and service enterprises; it had become a commercial center for the region.
In August and September 1942
the Nazis and their collaborators murdered the entire population of the town. By 1946 all traces of
Trochenbrod, its houses, businesses, public buildings, had been completely erased by Nazi and Soviet actions.
Today two modest monument
stones erected amidst farm fields far from any road commemorate the murders and mark the location of
Trochenbrod. It had been the only wholly-Jewish town anywhere in the world outside the biblical Land of
Israel.
During the first quarter of
the 20th century, many people from Trochenbrod, like so many Jews from the Pale of Settlement,
emigrated to the United States. In the 1920s organizations of Trochenbrod immigrants sprang up in Washington,
D.C., Baltimore, New York, Toledo, Cleveland, Chicago and other cities. By the late 1970s all of these had
dissolved because of the passing of most of the original immigrants.
In the first days of 2008,
however, children of those immigrants, now in their 60s, began reaching out to form a network of second and
third-generation “Trochenbroders,” and were met with excited enthusiasm. Now, many of these descendants
and their children from across the U.S. are coming together in April to rediscover each other; to remember
their ancestors and their Trochenbrod through public storytelling, video, and photographs; and to talk about
ways to keep alive the memory of Trochenbrod and what it was as a gift to future generations.
For more information,
contact Avrom Bendavid-Val, <abendavid4@gmail.com>, or
202-244-6689.
New Mystery Photos - Do You Recognize Anyone?
Rosemary Cohen, in Switzerland, has some photos of people from Tarnovka. Do you
recognize anyone? If so, you may be related! Check it out at our Most
Wanted section. (The link will open in a new window or tab)
 New Data from
Kremenets Cemetery Project
The contractor's final report on the Kremenets Jewish Cemetery Project (Phase I) is online, downloadable as
either a Word 2003 or a PDF document (or both) (caution - large file if downloading).
The report includes contour maps showing the primary vegetation and features of the cemetery; plot maps
showing the location of each numbered gravestone in the cemetery; maps showing the areas at risk for
erosion; maps showing current and proposed pathways; proposals for a memorial area, entrance gates
and wall reconstruction; cost estimates for erosion control, pathway construction, and wall
reconstruction ... and more.
These records are available here.
The newest report is the last one on the list.
Update, December 2007:
The December 2007 Concordance updates have been posted to our Shtetlinks Website. The Concordance now has
54,439 entries. These include 47,430 entries from the vital records and 7,009 from other sources. The town
list now has 662 entries for 472 different towns. We also have posted updates to the Surnames Image
files and the Town Names Image files. You can access these documents at:
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/master-surnames.html
and at
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/images-from-VR.html
If you have any questions, please write to me (rondoctor@earthlink.net)
or to Sheree (ssroth@pacbell.net).
New Data about Kipil
Jerry Seligsohn is a researcher in the New York City area who has been voluntarily
transcribing YIVO-archived data from the dozens of landshaften organizations there. He found some
records for Kipil. Those records are available here.
New Story about Kosiv!
Ethan Schaff took his mother on a memory trip to the town where she grew up,
hid during the Holocaust, and survived. You can read his story and see photos of Kosiv, in Podolia
gubernia, here.
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What else is here at the Ukraine-SIG Website?
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The Tools
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Translations,
Transliterations, and Images of Russian and Hebrew Words by the Kremenets Vital Records Project
- Causes of Death, Occupations, Legal Terminology, and Given Names found in Kremenets Vital Records
The Ukraine Given Names DataBase
Maps of the Ukraine's Provinces, Districts, and Towns:
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The Stories
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Trips to our Ancestral Homes Go
to this page to see stories that have moved us from our members like Tale
of Two Sisters, a story of two sisters' trip to Stara Ushitsa . Then share your story with us
too! This page also covers Biographies and Memoirs including that of noted Ukrainian Jews such as David
Oistrakh a biography of an Odessa native by Vitaly Charny. Book Reviews, Stories from your SIG
community, and the occasional flirtation with the poetic muse, are all on this page.
Bubbe's Ukrainian-Yiddishe Noshery
Not all stories are written in books. This collection of memories is elicited with a taste or a scent. Recipes
of food cooked in the Ukraine and taken from there to South America, North America, Eretz Israel, and every
corner of the world. Accompanied by photos of the ancestors who passed these recipes down.
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The Knowledge Base
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The Photo Album of the Ukraine SIG
Including one of our oldest and most famous SIG features - our "Most
Wanted"
section. Please send your mystery photos of unknown relatives to this forum so that your fellow genealogists
and Ukraine researchers can try to help.
The Project Page of the Ukraine SIG has
a wide variety of information on new and completed and in-process SIG projects. The membership has contributed
extensively to each. See:
Ukraine Towns and Jewish Families
Occupational Survey of the Ukraine
Photographers of Jewish Ukraine
Ukrainian Residence Info in Destination
Countries
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The Communities
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The ShtetLinks of JewishGen.
Volunteer-created pages for individual towns within the Ukraine.
Collection Points for Ukrainian
Towns. These pages for Ukrainian towns are compiled with variously-contributed photos,
postcards, and stories.
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Every link on this page will aid in your research.
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Getting Involved in Ukraine-SIG
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Our Projects
The Project Page of the Ukraine SIG posts the
ongoing, just-completed, and about-to-start projects in which you can participate. You can also suggest
projects, but be prepared to help with them.
You can sign up to participate in our mailing list, to ask questions, answer others' questions, and
read both posted by your fellow researchers. No charge anytime, and no spam.
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CONTACTS
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