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Bershad

Town Leader: Paul Finelt

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1900s Name: Bershad
1900s District: Olgopol
1900s Province: Podolia
1900s Country: Russian Empire

Modern: Bershad, Ukraine
Modern Ukrainian: Бершад  listen town name in ukrainian
Modern Russian: Бершад  listen town name in russian

1930s: Bershad, Vinnitsa, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union
1950s: Bershad, Soviet Union

Other names: Bershad [Rus, Ukr, Yid], Berschad, Barsad, Bersad, Berszad, Berșad [Rom], Berszada [Pol]

Coordinates:
48°22'N 29°31'E Mapquest Google Maps

Document and Dataset Collections

NameTime frameView
Yahad-in Unum execution site for Bershad/Bershad1941-1945
Yahad - In Unum ("together" in Hebrew and Latin) is a Paris-based organization established in 2004 by Father Patrick Desbois and dedicated to systematically identifying and documenting the sites of Jewish mass executions by Nazi mobile-killing units in Eastern Europe during World War II.


In Yahad - In Unum archives you can find the following resources concerning the Jewish victims of this town/village:


- Video testimonies of eyewitnesses of the mass shootings 
- Contemporary photos of executions sites of Jewish victims
- Archival pictures of the town/village and their Jewish inhabitants 
- German archives about the executions of Jewish victims 
- Soviet archives about the executions of Jewish victims 

Video testimonies can be available online upon request on Yahad Interactive Map page

Photos and short video clips of testimonies are available online on Yahad - In Unum interactive map

Others archives are available for consultation in Yahad Research Center in Paris. For more information, please contact Patrice Bensimon
Revision List, Olgopol District, Bershad, 18751875
Revision List of 1875 for Olgopol District, acquired from CAHJP. Handwritten in ledger books in Russian. Awaiting translation and data entry.
Yizkor Books, Bershad
Bershad, 2 YBs exist, not yet translated Be-tsel ayara (Jerusalem, 1956)
Der Geshichte der Juden in der Bukowina, vol. II (Tel Aviv, 1962).
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Articles

TitleTypeAuthorView
Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), BershadGeneral Reference 
Shtetl Finder, Cohen (1989), BershadGeneral Reference 
Slownik Geograficzny, BershadGeneral Reference 



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