eight years later, what we have learned

Father Patrick Desbois and his crew have searched and recorded the history of the Jewish towns in the Ukraine during the Shoah.

Unfortunately, Zvenigorodka underwent a mini Baba Yar.

Yad Veshem has a post entitled, The Untold Stories: The Murder Sites of Jews in the Occupied Territories of the former USSR

See the Yad Vashem history at https://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=936


"Jews lived in Zvenigorodka at least since 18th century. In the 1740s and 1750s the Jews of Zvenigorodka suffered from attacks by the Haidamaks. Only several dozen Jews lived in the town until the late 18th - early 19th centuries, when Zvenigorodka became part of the Pale of Settlement of the Russian Empire. The economic development of the area in the 19th century and the construction of a railway brought many Jews to the town. In 1897 6,389 Jews lived in Zvenigorodka, where they constituted 37.75 percent of the total population...The Jews of Zvenigorodka suffered greatly from the violence which accompanied the years of revolution and civil war in Russia. Scores of local Jews lost their lives in pogroms carried out by various warring parties between 1918 and 1920."