When our families left in the early 1900's, there were just a few thousand Jews living in Zvenigorodka. There were only 2000 Jews living in Zvenigorodka before the Einsatzgruppen arrived around 1944 to murder.

With so few in the town, our genealogical research should intersect. The point of this blog is to find the other descendents of Zvenigorodka, and to share the oral and written history of our grandparents.

A good place to start is Sharon's genealogy blog:

...Based on the records I've found for several branches of the family tree, we have cousins from Zvenigorodka (also spelled Zvenyhorodka, Zvenyhorodka, and Zwienigorodka), Ukraine. Dr. Saul, Solomon Lutsky, and his family listed this town as their last residence when they came to America in 1921. It's also the last residence listed for some Hochfeld cousins (Belinsky branch of the family tree) when they came to the US in 1909. Zvenigorodka is located 41 miles NE of Uman, 72 miles NW of Kirovohgrad (fka Elizavetgrad). It is also located only 13 miles from Lysyanka, the town where my g-grandparents Louis Lutsky and Lena Belinsky were probably born. Zvenigorodka is located in the Kiev district/province... CLICK HERE FOR FULL POST