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Gorodishche

Town Leader: Joseph Bekinschtein

JewishGen KehilaLinks: http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Horodyshche/
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1900s Name: Gorodishche
1900s District: Cherkassy
1900s Province: Kiev
1900s Country: Russian Empire

Modern: Gorodishche, Ukraine
Modern Ukrainian: Городіще  listen town name in ukrainian
Modern Russian: Городище  listen town name in russian

1930s: Gorodyshche, Kiev, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union
1950s: Gorodishche, Soviet Union

Other names: Gorodishche [Rus], Horodishtch [Yid], Horodyszcze [Pol], Horodysche [Ukr], Horodyshche, Horodysce, Gorodisce, Gorodyszcze, Poselok Imeni G.I. Petrovskogo

Coordinates:
49°17'N 31°27'E Mapquest Google Maps

Document and Dataset Collections

NameTime frameView
Yahad-in Unum execution site for Gorodishche1941-1945
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 Gorodishche:

- 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
Vital Records Images-Jewish Births, Marriages, Deaths, Divorces in Gorodische1846-1862
Jewish Records of births, marriages, divorces and deaths from the Jewish community of Gorodische. The records are from FHL microfilm number 2289315 (Items 6-26).  The text is in Russian and Hebrew.

Microfilm 2289315

Item 6 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo. 1 deaths 1846
Item 7 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo. 2 births 1846
Item 8 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo. 3 deaths 1847
Item  9 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo. 4 deaths 1848
Item 10 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo. 5 births 1849
Item 11 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo. 6 deaths 1849
Item 12 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo. 7 births 1850
Item 13 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo. 8 marriages 1850
Item 14 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo. 9 marriages 1851
Item 15 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo. 10 deaths 1851
Item 16 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo. 11 births 1853
Item 17 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo. 12 deaths 1853
Item 18 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo. 13 deaths 1854
Item 19 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo. 14 births 1854
Item 20 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo. 15 marriages 1858
Item 21 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo.16 deaths 1858
Item 22 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo.17 marriages 1859
Item 23 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo.18 deaths 1861
Item 24 Fond 393, оpis 1, delo.19 marriages 1862
Item 25 Fond 394, оpis 1, delo. 1 births 1854
Item 26 Fond 394, оpis 1, delo. 2 births 1855


The FHL catalog entry for the microfilms is:
Records of births, marriages, divorces, and deaths from the Jewish community in Gorodishche, Cherkassy, Kiev, Russia; later known as Horodyshche, Horodyshche, Cherkasy, Ukraine. Text in Russian and Hebrew.
 
Translation is pending. Ukraine SIG"s Coordinator has the image files.
Revision Lists, Gorodishche Village 1850, FHL Catalog entry1850
2 microfilm reels: Film 2199438-2199439. Click here to access the FHL Catalog Entry
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Articles

TitleTypeAuthorView
Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), GorodishcheGeneral Reference 
Shtetl Finder, Cohen (1989), GorodishcheGeneral Reference 
Slownik Geograficzny, GorodishcheGeneral Reference 
 Slownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), III, pp. 145-149:



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