Details: Jews are known to have been in the Kremenets area as early as 1438 when the Grand Duke of Lithuania gave them a charter. The Jewish community gradually expanded and prospered through the 16th century. According to the 1931 Polish census, the town of Kremenets, Ukraine had a population of 19,877, consisting of 8,428 Ukrainians, 7,256 Jews, 3,108 Poles and 883 Russians. The Nazis and their helpers destroyed and exterminated a magnificent community, capable and devoted, that wove its thread of existence for 500 years in an area that was a land of contention among Tatars, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Poles, and Russians. Amid all the political perversities, the Jewish community persevered, shaped and strengthened its way of life, lived through times of highs and lows, wrote brilliant pages in the history of Jewish Volhynia, and produced leaders and Torah greats, writers and intellectuals. But maybe its main greatness and value is in its spirited, folksy life—in the character of the laboring Jew who is content in spirit and soul, and full of the joy of life; who has deep emotional ties to Judaism and all its vivid creative forces, the campaigners and builders among them: Hasidim and Mitnagdim, Orthodox and intellectuals, pioneers of Love of Zion and Zionism, advocates of Hebrew and Yiddish culture, of socialism and the movement of those who work the Land of Israel, of pioneering and immigration—in all of those, the Jews of Kremenets took an active part, in body and soul and devotion. This Yizkor Book serves as a memorial to all the victims of the Shoah from Kremenets and nearby towns. Alternate names for the town: Kremenets [Rus, Ukr], Krzemieniec [Pol], Kremenitz [Yid], Kremenez [Ger], Kremenits, Kremenec', Kshemyenyets Kremenets, in western Ukraine is 213 miles W of Kiev. It is located at 50 deg 6' North Latitude and 25 deg 43' E Longitude.   Nearby Jewish Communities: Velikiye Berezhtsy 4 miles W Podlesnoye 5 miles SE Katerynivka 10 miles SE Pochayev 12 miles WSW Verba 13 miles NNW Vishnevets 14 miles S Kozin 16 miles NW Rakhmanov 17 miles E Shums'k 18 miles E Novyy Oleksinets 21 miles SSW Radyvyliv 21 miles W Pidkamin 21 miles WSW Dubno 22 miles N Lanivtsi 23 miles SE Brody 25 miles W Yampil 25 miles ESE Vyshhorodok 26 miles SSE Zaliztsi 27 miles SW Varkovychi 28 miles NNE Demydivka 28 miles NW Mlyniv 28 miles N Mizoch 28 miles NE Ozeryany 29 miles NNE Muravytsi 29 miles NNW Leshniv 30 miles WNW Zbarazh 30 miles S

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