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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
Günzburg
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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Blog--"Genealogy: Zvenigorodka, Ukraine"

Here is a blog about genealogy and Zvenigorodka. From the blog: Genealogy: Zvenigorodka, Ukraine

Zvenigorodka, Ukraine
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.

According to The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life, a single Jewish lessee was present in 1765. In 1897, the Jewish population was 6,389. Jews set up a candle factory and a tobacco plant. Many worked on the estates during the grain harvest. Zvenigoridka was the birthplace of Baron Horace Gunzberg/Guenzburg and the Hebrew writer Natan Agmon Bistritski/Bistritsky. In 1924, under the Soviets, 360 Jewish artisans were organized in unions. A few dozen Jewish families founded a kolkhoz (cooperative agricultural enterprise) nearby. Two Yiddish-language elementary schools and a vocational school were opened in the town. An education institute for needy children (aged 4-8) was founded in 1927. In the same year, a Jewish law court began operating and in 1931 a Yiddish-language agricultural school was established. The Jewish population in 1939 was 1,957. The Nazis occupied Zvenigorodka on July 29, 1941, setting up a ghetto where the Jews of Katerynopol were also confined. On June 14, 1942, at least 1,500 Jews were executed in the Oforny forest.

According to the RTR Foundation website, the following records survive in the Kiev and/or Cherkassy archives:

-birth - 1861-1862; 1887-1889; 1897; 1903; 1904; 1907; 1908
-census/list of inhabitants - 1847, 1849, 1853
-voter lists - 1853
-pogroms - 1905
-address book - 1849
-Jewish school/students - 1852-3
-taxpayer lists - 1847, 1852, 1915
-Jewish hospital records - 1906
-local govt document - 1905 list of Jews who participated in the revoluntionary movement in Zvenigorodka
-local govt document - 1910-11 list of small shop owners
Posted by Sharon at 12:59 PM

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2 comments:
Anonymous said...
In 2001 I met a fellow on a train from Siberia to Moscow. I eventually learned that his family was originally from Zvenigorodka where their family name had been "Kogan" (that's what happens to "Cohen" in Cyrillic). Around 1910 two brothers -- I think one was "Daniil" -- had emigrated to Philadelphia and opened a dressmaking shop. Then came the 1917 revolution and the Stalin years when it became too dangerous to write, so a farewell letter was sent. After that the brother who remained in Zvenigorodka was persecuted as an "enemy of the people" or "bourgeois bloodsucker" once too often, so he took his family to Siberia to create new identities under "Russian" names. He could not have foreseen the Holocaust when Zvenigorodka's remaining Jews were annihilated, and that probably is what his relatives in Philadelphia assumed.

I have not been able to locate any Kogans in greater Philadelphia who can connect themselves to this story. Perhaps they moved on or changed their names. If this seems to connect with anyone's family history, I can be reached here: dave_mason@ca.rr.com

February 10, 2010 12:26 PM
Anonymous said...
Hi,
I'm working on the genealogy of the Ganapol(sky) family from Zveigorodka. If this name is familiar to anyone, please be in contact.

Alan Steinfeld
asteinfeldmd@alumni.uc.edu

March 10, 2010 7:19 PM

Feige and Fiszel Chilkowski's Escape from Russia

BlogoWogo - The Blog Network | Feige and Fiszel Chilkowski's Escape from Russia

BlogoWogo - The Blog Network | Feige and Fiszel Chilkowski's Escape from RussiaFeige Chilkowski, the granddaughter of Meyer Bezbrozh and her husband Fiszel Chilkowski had a particularly dramatic escape from Russia. Fiszel owned a tannery in Zvenigorodka. In 1920, after the Bolshiviks took over during the Russian Revolution, they confiscated the tannery. The Bolshiviks kept Fiszel on as an employee and asked him to show them how to run the tannery. One day, a Jewish friend of Fiszel's who was a Bolshivik came to him with a warning. The friend said that now that Fiszel had shown the Bolshiviks all there was to know about running the tannery, that he was to be killed. Fiszel knew that he had to leave Russia that night. He and Feige dug up a small amount of money that they had hidden in the ground and left in the middle of the night. They dressed like peasants and hired a peasant to drive them from village to village through the snow in the night on their way to the Polish border, near Rovna Valinsk...

the 1918 pograms:

Jewish Yearbook 1918-1919 On July 26, 1918, in "Zvenigorodka (near Kiev): Seventeen Jews killed, and fifty-one wounded.—"

Childhood in a Shtetl

Dr. Gannes describes the pograms of 1918 and 1919 in the region near Winograd, 21 miles from Zvenigorodka: "For three months we lived in fear and without any government protection. From time to time, bands numbering thirty to forty riders, fully armed, enter our shtetl, drive the Jews from the synagogue,surround it, threaten to shoot them, and demand tribute to be paid immediately..." Ransom was demanded and "when the women brought the money, they and the men were killed...the women were hacked to pieces."

Childhood in a shtetl (Open Library)

Genealogy: Zvenigorodka, Ukraine

According to The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life, a single Jewish lessee was present in 1765. In 1897, the Jewish population was 6,389. Jews set up a candle factory and a tobacco plant. Many worked on the estates during the grain harvest. Zvenigoridka was the birthplace of Baron Horace Gunzberg/Guenzburg and the Hebrew writer Natan Agmon Bistritski/Bistritsky. In 1924, under the Soviets, 360 Jewish artisans were organized in unions. A few dozen Jewish families founded a kolkhoz (cooperative agricultural enterprise) nearby. Two Yiddish-language elementary schools and a vocational school were opened in the town. An education institute for needy children (aged 4-8) was founded in 1927. In the same year, a Jewish law court began operating and in 1931 a Yiddish-language agricultural school was established. The Jewish population in 1939 was 1,957. The Nazis occupied Zvenigorodka on July 29, 1941, setting up a ghetto where the Jews of Katerynopol were also confined. On June 14, 1942, at least 1,500 Jews were executed in the Oforny forest.
Genealogy: Zvenigorodka, Ukraine

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