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Vishnevets

Town Leader: Ellen Garshick

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1900s Name: Vishnevets
1900s District: Kremenets
1900s Province: Volhynia
1900s Country: Russian Empire

Modern: Vishnevets, Ukraine
Modern Ukrainian: Вишневець  listen town name in ukrainian
Modern Russian: Вишневец  listen town name in russian

1930s: Wisniowiec, Krzemieniec, Wołyń, Poland
1950s: Vishnevets, Soviet Union

Other names: Vishnevets [Rus], Wisniowiec [Pol], Vishnivits [Yid], Vyshnivets [Ukr], Vishnevits, Vishniets, Vishnivitz, Vishnyovyets, Wisnievicze, Wisniowiec Nowy, Wisnowiec, Vysnivec

Coordinates:
49°54'N 25°45'E Mapquest Google Maps

Vishnevets data on Kremenets KehilaLinks: The Kremenets District Research Group (KDRG) collects documents and datasets for towns of the Kremenets District, including Vishnevets. See the Kremenets KehilaLinks website for documents and datasets available for Vishnevets. See especially the searchable Concordance of Personal Names and Town Names, a master index of all information collected by KDRG. For more information, contact Ellen Garshick (KremenetsDRG@gmail.com).

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Document and Dataset Collections

NameTime frameView
Illegal Fundraising Trial, Kremenets and Vishnevets, KDRG 031 1837-1841
Translation of Requests, reports, correspondence and other information on illegal fundraising by residents of Kremenets and its borough Vishnevets for the Jewish poor and orphans of Jerusalem.  Includes list of donors. HM 2-8977.5. KDRG Doc No. 031. Typed and handwritten. Russian and Hebrew. Created by the Kremenets Town Magistrate. CAHJP obtained it from the Ternopil State Archives, Fond 37, opis 3, file 54.

Of 284 pages, we We have all except pp. 21, 24, 35, 46, 49, 56, 61, 68-73, 78-95, 109-116, 119-129, 133, 136-160, 162, 170, 182-284. About 114 pages have been translated so far.
Names and towns are indexed in the searchable  Concordance of Personal Names and Town Names, a master index of all information collected by the Kremenets District Research Group.
Revision List Translations, Vishnevets1811-1867
This dataset is a translation of the Jewish records in the revision lists for towns in the Kremenets District. The census books of the Central State Archives in Ternopil Oblast were microfilmed by the LDS and are available in the Mormon Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Kremenets District Research Group is translating the revision lists.

To search this collection, see the Concordance of Personal Names and Town Names, a master index of all information collected by the Kremenets District Research Group. For the translations, see https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/research-projects.html

For more information about how to obtain the full translation spreadsheet, or how to contribute to the translation project, contact  Sheree Roth or 
Ellen Garshick.
Yad Vashem, Vishnevets1939-1945
Translations and compilations of information from Yad Vashem documents containing names associated with Kremenets-district towns, such as Pages of Testimony, photos, victim lists, and testimonies.
Names and towns are also indexed in the searchable  Concordance of Personal Names and Town Names, a master index of all information collected by the Kremenets District Research Group.
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Articles

TitleTypeAuthorView
Ukraine Journal: A Genealogical Journey to Warsaw and Ukraine (2002)Travel ReportsRon Doctor
JDC Reports, 1919 visit to Kremenets District TownsHistory 
 Period: 1919JDC visit to Kremenets, 15 Oct 1919 Memo, NY_AR1921_03260, ID 224216.pdf. This one page memo describes the situation in Kremenets and names 15 prominent Kremenetsers. It also gives the population of the 12 major towns in the Kremenets district.
Encyclopedia of Jewish Life, VishnevetsGeneral Reference 
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