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Zhitomir

Town Leader: Scott Heskes

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1900s Name: Zhitomir
1900s District: Zhitomir
1900s Province: Volhynia
1900s Country: Russian Empire

Modern: Zhytomyr, Ukraine
Modern Ukrainian: Житомир  listen town name in ukrainian
Modern Russian: Житомир  listen town name in russian

1930s: Zhitomir, Zhitomir, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union
1950s: Zhitomir, Soviet Union

Other names: Zhytomyr [Ukr], Zhitomir [Rus, Yid], Zytomierz [Pol], Schytomyr [Ger], Žytomyr, Žitomir, Shitomir, Jitomir

Coordinates:
50°15'N 28°40'E Mapquest Google Maps

Document and Dataset Collections

NameTime frameView
Zhitomer Vital Records1851-1868
Zhitomer Vital Records from CAHJP.
Yahad-in Unum execution site for Zhitomir1941-1945
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 the town/village of Zhitomir:

- 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
CAHJP Catalog Card, 1867, Appointment of Rabbis and teachers to state Jewish schools, KDRG 2351867
1. On appointment of Rabbi and pedagogical faculties" graduates as teachers of state Jewish schools: Moshe SHTEYNKROYN –Vinnytsya; Bentsion KRAVETS-Vasylkiv; Duvid MATSHIN (MOCHIN) and Ayzik MIKHKIN-Kanev.

2. Request for discharge due to illness: the Bible teacher of the Kremenets State Jewish School Hirsh VARSHAVER.

3. On permission to the Radomysl State School for Israil GLIKMAN to enter the University of St.Vladimir in Kiyev. Zhitomir School for Rabbis.

CAHJP Catalog No. HM 3-494.06 KDRG No. 235. In Russian. CAHJP obtained the document from the GAZHO (State Archives of Ukraine in  Zhitomir), fond 396, opis 2, delo 456. KDRG has not yet obtained a copy of this document. 

For information about this collection, contact Ron Doctor .
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Articles

TitleTypeAuthorView
Trip to Volhynia (August 1999)Travel ReportsEllen Shindelman Kowitt
Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), ZhitomirGeneral Reference 
Pinkas HaKehilot, ZhitomirGeneral Reference 
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