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Kremenets, Ukraine
Alternate names: Krzemieniec [Pol], Kremenitz [Yid], Kremenez [Ger], Kremenits, Kremenec', Kshemyenyets 50°06' N, 25°43' E

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This section is divided into 4 categories.

History
Maps
People
Towns in the Kremenets District

History

	Kremenets History, RDD, 9 Mar 2001 article
	Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901 … Kremenets entry
	Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901 … Articles relating to Kremenets
	History of Kremenets, from Encyclopedia Judaica
	Columbia Encyclopedia (6th Edition) … Kremenets article
	Slownik Geograficzny: Entries for Vishnevets, Shumskoye, Oleksinets, & Kremenets
	Extract from "History of the Jews in Russia and Poland", by Simon Dubnow.
	Oleksinets … from www.brozbar.neostrada.pl
	Magnate ownership of Kremenets-District towns
	Holocaust-Era Reports The Kremenets Uprising, an extract from "The Holocaust of Volhynian Jews", by Shmuel Spector "The Holocaust of the Jews from Krzemieniec in the year 1942", Jerzy Struminski (Caution ... this is graphic and extremely disturbing.) Child Survivors of the Shoah (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw) A list of 6 surnames of Kremenets child survivors of the Shoah. Obtained from the Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw) (PDF)
	Links to the History chapters of the YBs

Maps

	Map of Russian Empire
	Map of Ukraine, 1882 from FEEFHS (http://www.feefhs.org/maplibrary/russian/re-ukrai.html), scale: 1 inch=96 miles
	Map of Ukraine, Kremenets Area 2009 This map is from the website http://www.lemko.org/atlas/atlas.html It divides Ukraine into 99 rectangular sections.Each rectangular section magnifies when clicked. In each magnified section, 1 inch = 5 miles. Kremenets is in the lower right of section 23.
	Map of Volhynia Guberniya, 1899 from http://www.angelfire.com/or/yizkor/gubmaps.html, modified by Michael Steinore
	Map of Volhynia Guberniya, 1929 This map shows district and subdistrict boundaries
	Volhynia, during WW2 Activities of Jewish resistance groups and partisan units in Volhynia during the period Autumn 1942 through the middle of 1943. This map shows major rivers, roads and railroads. It is from "The Holocaust of Volhynia Jews, 1941-1944" by Shmuel Spector, page 224.

	Topographical Map of Ternopil and Khmelnitsky Oblasts, 1942 This military map is in Russian. It shows key towns including Lanovtsy, Yampol, Belozerka, Teofipol Voronovtsy, Tichomel, Olshanitsa and many other towns. It is map M-35-077 from the UC Berkeley Maps collection
	Map of Kremenets street layout from YB-Stein
	`Kremenets Street Map, Interwar Years` (Obtained from the Center for Jewish Art, Jerusalem)
	Modern Kremenets Street Map (2006) from the Tourist Brochure, "Kremenets Tourism: Historical Town of Ukraine" (in Ukrainian)
	Relief Map of the Kremenets Hills, c.1883 Relief map of the Kremenets Hills. Scale 1:250,000. Shows Kremenets, Berejtzi, Pochayev, Vishnevets, Novyy Oleksinets. Source: Reclus, Elisee, The Earth and its inhabitants, Euroope, Volume V. NY: D. Appleton & Co., 1885.
	Street Map of Vishnevets, 1941-1942 (Word Doc) This map appears on the flyleaf of Sefer Vishnevets. It was reconstructed and hand-drawn from memory by Moshe Segal, son of Hersh Matisis. It shows the town of Vishnevets with Jewish and other landmarks during the early Nazi-era, around 1941-1942.

Family Photos

People

	Joseph ben Moses, of Kremenetz, 16th cent YIVO Strashun Exhibit - Features Be'ur al Sefer Mitsvot Gadol (Commentary on the Great Book of Commandments) Kestenbaum Auction announcement, December 2009 - Auction of Be'ur al Sefer Mitsvot Gadol . Expected price: $400 to $600
	Mark Kac, Mathemetician (b.1914 in Kremenets, d.1984 in Los Angeles)
	Yitschak Ber Levinson (entry from Jewish Encyclopedia)
	Avraham Landsberg (entry from Jewish Encyclopedia)
	Isaac Stern, born in Kremenets (1920-2001) Isaac Stern Biography Isaac Stern, NY Times Obituary
	Woolf Marmot’s Family History … Extract
	List of Rabbis from Concordance (pdf) (doc)
	List of people who are featured in YB chapters
	David Katz, a Remembrance
	Wolf, Moshe, and Maurice Kagan

Towns in the Kremenets District (also visit the Maps section above)

	Town Names and their frequency of occurrence in Kremenets documents
	Magnate ownership of Kremenets-District towns
	Reference works that mention Kremenets & other towns in the district
	Slownik Geograficzny: Entries for Vishnevets, Shumskoye, Oleksinets, Kremenets
	Shumsk … Thanks to Howard Freedman
	Felshtin (Gvardijske/Hvardiske)
	Pochayev Burial Register, Har Jehuda Jewish Cemetery, Upper Darby, PA (Word File) (PDF File) Data for 83 burials in the Pochayev Voliner Aid Society section of the Har Jehuda Cemetery Data obtained and contributed by Lisa Brahin Weinblatt for KDRG Har Jehuda Jewish Cemetery Plot Map
	Kremenets towns in Cohen's Shtetl Finder (Katerinovka, Kremenets, Lanovtsy, Novyy Oleksinets, Pochayev, Radyvyliv, Velikiye Berezhtsy, Vishnevets, and Yampol) (PDF)