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."

Los hechos frente a las palabras, la lección de Korsun-Cherkassy | laRepublica.es

Los hechos frente a las palabras, la lección de Korsun-Cherkassy | laRepublica.es

Cuando hablamos de la 2ª Guerra Mundial siempre hemos recordado la tenacidad y la confianza del pueblo soviético en vencer a las fuerzas del nazismo. Tuvieron lugar muchas batallas desde aquel 21 de Junio de 1941, cuando fue invadida la Unión Soviética. Y hoy, el imperialismo silencia aquel titánico esfuerzo. Los hechos son reveladores. Y no solamente fueron grandes combates como Moscú, Stalingrado o Kursk. También tuvieron lugar imponentes operaciones que cambiaron el curso de la guerra, ante dificultades que cualquier ejército profesional no admitiría como idóneas para obtener la victoria. Y son estas actuaciones del Ejército Rojo de las más silenciadas por los historiadores y divulgadores de los medios imperialistas. Y por ello, deben ser ampliamente conocidas por la clase obrera.

Genealogy Ukraine SIG: Zvenigorodka

Ukraine SIG: Zvenigorodka

Zvenigorodka
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1900s Name: Zvenigorodka
1900s District: Zvenigorodka
1900s Province: Kiev
1900s Country: Russian Empire

1930s: Zvenigorodka, Kiev, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union
1950s: Zvenigorodka, Soviet Union
Modern: Zvenigorodka, Ukraine

Other names: Zvenigorodka [Rus, Yid], Zvenyhorodka [Ukr], Zwienigorodka [Pol], Zwenigorodka, Zwinogródka

Coordinates: 49°05'N 30°58'E Mapquest Google Maps


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Zvenigorodka and Father Patrick Desbois

Zvenigorodka and Father Patrick Desbois



Father Desbois runs Yahad - In Unum, "the leading research organization investigating the mass executions of 1.5 million Jews and Roma/Gypsy people in Eastern Europe between 1941 and 1944. This is sometimes referred to as "The Holocaust by Bullets," the title of a book written by Yahad's president, Father Patrick Desbois. While the atrocities of the concentration camps are well-known, this genocide perpetrated in the former Soviet Union against Jews, Roma and other victims of the Nazis and their allies is not. Through its investigation, Yahad - In Unum has discovered hundreds of mass graves of victims murdered in Eastern Europe and recorded the testimony of more than 1,850 witnesses..."

LDS MICROFILMS

Ramblings on Family History and Other StuffLDS Microfilms



Microfilming began in 1994. There are projects in progress in Kiyev and L'viv. Jewish vital records from Crimea were filmed in Simferopol in 1995-96:


Bakchisaray
Feodosiya
Karasubazar
Kerch
Melitopol
Perekop
Simferopol
Yalta
Yevpatoriya
Filmed in Cherkasy in 1996-97:


Mokraya-Kaligorka
Olshana
Shpola
Zvenigorodka (Zvenigorodka district)

More than just ‘Fiddler on the Roof | JTA - Jewish & Israel News

More than just ‘Fiddler on the Roof | JTA - Jewish & Israel News 1999....At the concert, Violetta Karpenko, the chairwoman of the Reform Jewish congregation in Zvenigorodka, performed the Yiddish song "Shpilt a Freilakhs." Since it repaired and remodeled its own synagogue, her community has become one of the major spiritual centers of the region. Elena Mironova, a Jewish community worker, was born in Zvenigorodka. She leads Shabbat and holiday services at several of the communities in her region, and also works as the teacher of Jewish tradition. She said the small-town association is responsible for the growth of interest in Jewish tradition among those Jews who live in communities with no permanent Jewish facilities. "Jews, who previously had no knowledge of Jewish religious life, are now coming to the Zvenigorodka synagogue, some from as far as 200 kilometers away. Our own community is quite small, so the very fact that every holiday brings together 100 to 150 Jews from as many as 10 nearby towns is a holiday in itself." As part of the celebration, an opening of a museum on Jewish shtetl history was held in Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy. The exhibition, titled "We Were Born in Shtetls," includes 450 exhibits from 28 small Ukrainian towns, representing both religious and secular aspects of life in Ukrainian shtetls. A feature of small-town Jewish life is the large percentage of intermarried families, which doesn�t prevent Jews with mixed background from becoming active in community affairs.

Zvenyhorodka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Zvenyhorodka
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Zvenyhorodka (Ukrainian: Звенигородка) or Zvenigorodka (Russian: Звенигородка) is a city located in the Cherkasy Oblast (province) in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Zvenyhorodsky Raion (district).

The current estimated population is 19,900 (as of 2005).
People
David Günzburg
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References
(Ukrainian) (1972) Icтopia мicт i ciл Укpaїнcькoї CCP - Черкаськa область (History of Towns and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR - Cherkasy Oblast),

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