Introduction and User Guide to the
Indexed Concordance of Personal Names and Town Names
for Kremenets District Resources

Extracted from the Jewish Vital Records of Kremenets

Supplemented by Extractions from Revision Lists, Yizkor Books & Other Resources

Compiled by Dr. Ronald D. Doctor, Co-Coordinator, Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP

rddpdx@gmail.com

1 May 2011

This document has 4 major sections:

Introduction

Transliteration

Documents Indexed in Concordance – Brief List

Detailed Descriptions of Source Documents: How to read Source and Location Information

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Introduction

This is an Indexed Concordance to Jewish personal names and town names recorded in the vital records, revision lists, and other documents of Kremenets, Ukraine and surrounding shtetlach of the Kremenets District.  It also includes personal names and town names that occur in the Yizkor Books of Kremenets and surrounding towns. These include the two Kremenets Yizkor Books, the series of 18 Booklets published by the Kremenets Association of Emigrants, and the Pochayev, Shumsk, Vishnevets, and Yampol Yizkor Books. We have added names extracted from many other documents that deal with Jews of the Kremenets District. All sources are described in detail later in this document. Personal names include given names and patronymics as well as other indicators of relationships. For women, wherever possible, we have included both the surname of her father and her husband.

In addition, we have compiled a simple list of town names and the frequency with which each appears in our documents. We have standardized on the modern BGN spelling from JewishGen's ShtetlSeeker. However, we also include the spelling that appears in the records. When the alternate spelling is significantly different from the BGN name, we have used "see" references to point you to the BGN name. The list currently has 876 town name entries, representing 645 different towns or areas. These town names are from 110,474 Concordance entries that mention towns. One hundred and two towns are listed 20 times or more in the documents. Forty town names appear at least 100 times, and 14 towns appear at least 1,000 times.

The lists are not complete because translation activities are still underway. Complete data for the vital records and revision list translations are posted on JRI-Poland (http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl) after the transliterated data are proofread and edited. Yizkor Book translations are posted in the Kremenets section of JewishGen’s Yizkor Book website (http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kremenets/kremenets.html) after they are edited. Links to these sites and other Kremenets information are available at the Kremenets ShtetLinks website:
(
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets).

This is a work in progress. The Concordance currently contains 129,149 entries (61,377 from vital records, 53,880 from the Revision Lists, 4,732 from documents obtained from the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 3,270 from the Yizkor Books and Booklets, 2,918 from the Ellis Island Database, and 1,960 from other sources, and also has 929 “see” and “see also” references). We have completed translation of all 15,549 Krements vital records that we received from the LDS plus 1,009 vital records from Vyshgorodok. All of them are included in the Concordance, although not all have been edited and proofread. Edited entries are shown in a bold-face font.

Edited vital records entries uploaded to JRI-Poland’s database include:

 

Kremenets vital records

Birth Records: 1870-1877, 1893-1895

Death Records: 1870-1872, 1894

 

The unedited entries include the following:

 

Kremenets vital records

Birth Records: 1878-1886, 1888-1892, and 1896-1906

Marriage Records: 1899 through 1902, and 1904

Divorce Records: 1903 & 1904

Death Records: 1873-1878, 1880-1893, 1895-1897, 1900-1902, and 1904-1907

Vyshgorodok vital records

Birth records: 1878-1889, 1895-1900

 

Transliteration

 

Names from the vital records have been transliterated from the Hebrew/Yiddish ledger pages for this Concordance.  However some of the unedited entries are from the Russian side of the ledger. Names in the Hebrew/Yiddish column that are from the Russian side of the ledger are in italics. In addition, in some vital records the surname of women is the surname of her father, but in others no surname is given. For those female records lacking a surname we have input her married surname. This is indicated by an asterisk following the surname. We will update all records during the editing and proofreading process. In the meantime, when you search, be sure to search for variations in the spelling of your surname.

 

We have tried to standardize the transliteration of these surnames to English, but be aware that in some cases our translators applied common usage to the spelling of names. With a few exceptions, our Guidelines are based on the ANSI Z39.25-1975 General Purpose Standard for Hebrew, YIVO’s transliteration schema for Yiddish and on e-mail correspondence with Alexander Beider. To resolve any remaining ambiguity in the Hebrew transliteration, we have used the Russian pronunciation as a guide to the English spelling. Please see the Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP document “Kremenets Hebrew/Yiddish Transliteration Guidelines”. It describes the techniques we used. The Guidelines document is available on the JewishGen’s Ukraine Special Interest Group (Ukraine SIG) website (http://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine), or on our Kremenets Shtetlinks website (http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/).

 

Transliterations often cannot be exact. In particular, commonly interchangeable letters include /h/ & /g/, /p/ & /f/, /o/ & /a/, /o/ & /u/, /y/ & /i/, and /i/, /ay/ & /ey/. The Hebrew letter /chet/ does not appear in Yiddish. We have transliterated it as /ch/ to differentiate it from /khaf/, which we have transliterated as /kh/. The reader should be aware that such differences in spelling might occur for any specific name. Consequently, you should be sure to search for spelling variations of surnames.

 

One further note is in order. Surnames often are absent in older documents and in most cemetery inscriptions. Instead, we find only given names, sometimes with a patronymic (given name followed by the father’s given name). So, when looking for names, be sure to search the Index for given names as well as surnames. To help you make sense of the entries that contain only given names, we have added the year that appears in the document.

 

Documents Indexed in Concordance – Brief List

 

Here is a brief list of source documents from which we have extracted names for this Concordance. Do a Ctrl-Click on the hypertext links to go directly to a detailed description of the document.

 

 

 

Detailed descriptions of each source document are in the next section. That section also describes how to read the source and location information in the Concordance so that you can locate in the original source documents, the occurrences of each name you seek.

 

 

Detailed Descriptions of Source Documents

How to read Source and Location Information

 

As noted above, data in the Concordance were extracted from several sources: Revision Lists, Vital Records, Yizkor Books and other documents. Surnames in the Concordance are in alphabetic order using the Hebrew transliteration. This section describes each source document and shows the abbreviations we use in the Source column to identify the different source documents from which we obtained names.

 

AGAD (Warsaw), 1747 Black Book
A 1747 Court Record of a trial of 14 Kremenets-area Jews accused of ritual murder

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: AGAD, 1747 Black Book

Ksiega czarna/zloczyncow/sadu wojtowsko - lawniczego m. Krzemienca. Opis zewnetrzny: Ks. opr. w ciemna skore (pol.). UWAGI: Zob Nabytki odo... 58. Daty, 1747-1764.

Nabutki Niedokumentowe, oddzia½ I AGAD, zespo½ 420, Sygnatura 058. TreÊç: Ksiega miasta Krzemieniec na Wolyniu. (Locality book for Kremenets in Volyn), Years 1747-1764. Previous AGAD catalog number: 0105/1. Language: Polish. Previous Vacat added to no. 420; About 250 pages.

 

This document is the official record of a court trial held in Zaslaw (now Izyslav), in the Kremenets District, in April and May 1747. In it, 14 Jews are accused of murdering a Christian traveler, draining his blood and using the blood in matzoh. The Jews were convicted after testimony elicited under torture. Their penalties are gruesome. This type of accusation is known as “ritual murder” or “blood libel”. It has been a primary instrument of anti-semitism since at least the 11th century. It has been proven false over and over again, but still persists, even to this day. Jacek Proszyk translated the document from archaic Polish to modern Polish. One of our Kremenets members (who wishes to remain anonymous) translated the document from modern Polish to English.

 

Names in italics are in Polish from the original document. They follow the transliterated surnames. The “Location in Source” column gives the page number in the original document where each name is occurs.

 

Center for Jewish Art (CJA), Hebrew University, Jerusalem

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CJA-xxx-yyyy

 

In the 1990s, the Center for Jewish Art (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) went on several expeditions to Jewish cemeteries in the towns of Volhynia Guberniya. These Concordance entries derive from the matzeva photos they took and gravestone data they recorded. Each item is identified in the Source column of the Concordance by the abbreviation CJA-xxx-yyyy. The xxx is the name of the town where the Cemetery is located. The yyyy is the year recorded on the matzeva. If the year cannot be read, it is replaced by unknown. The Location in Source column gives the CJA identification number for each stone, followed by the recorded year, if available.

 

The CJA data sheets contain detailed descriptions of the matzevot, the inscription in Hebrew, English translation the inscription, and remarks that explain the source and context of phrases in each inscription. Note that most of these matzevot do not contain surnames, but most include patronymics (given name of the deceased’s father). We have included the patronymic in the Given Name column of the Concordance. Also, if the deceased of the deceased’s father was a Rabbi, that information is included in the Given Name column.

 

Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem

 

This is a series of documents for Kremenets and surrounding towns that we are obtaining through the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem, from Archives in Poland, Ukraine and Russia. All of the Central Archives documents listed here are identified in the Source column of the Concordance by the abbreviation CA-xxx-yyyy. The xxx indicates Kremenets District Research Group document number. The yyyy indicates year(s) covered by the document. Page numbers in Location in Source column identify the sequentially numbered pages in our excerpt. In the Concordance, names in italics are in Polish in the original document. They are in the 3rd column which gives the original language name, usually Russian or Polish. Unless otherwise noted, the Central Archives, has a copy of the document. Use the HM number to identify it.

 

1753, Central Archives Document HM 1943; KDRG Document 006

Document related to the court case:  Borkowski v. Jewish Synagogue

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-006 1753

 

CA 006 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1796, Central Archives Document HM 3-528.20; KDRG Document 239

Volyn Main Court, town of Zhitomir

Excerpt from record of evidence of the Kremenets district court regarding sentence of Bunya ARIOVICH for aspersion [defamation] of "second major” (military position next to captain) STOYANOV.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-239 1796

 

CA 239 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1799, Central Archives Document HM 3-529.19; KDRG Document 240

Volyn Main Court , town of Zhitomir

Accusation of townsman from town of  Tetiyiv Yankel MOSHKOVICH in robbery attack at Yampol road on Radomysl merchant Borukh YESINOVICH. In case: Evidence of the victim and the witness; Emperor's decrees on this matter; Description of the robbed.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-240 1799

 

CA 240 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1812-1814, Central Archives Document HM 3-531.02; KDRG Document 242

Volyn main Court, town of Zhitomir, 2nd department

Renewal of criminal case of  Gershko MORDKOVICH and Gersh Ber PEYSAKHOVICH (Austrian citizens) accusation in robbery attack and killing a German in the forest on the way to Shumsk in 1812.

In the case: Evidence of witnesses and suspects.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-242 1812-1814

 

CA 242 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1818-1819, Central Archives Document HM 3-532.09; KDRG Document 241

Volyn Main Court, town of Zhitomir , 2nd department

Suit of Kremenets townswoman Rivka MENDELIOVICH to townsmen CHERNYAEVS and Jewess Sheyna VASILEV , keeping stores on her plot, payment of  money compensation.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-241 1818-1819

 

CA 241 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1822-1823, Central Archives Document HM 3-262.57; KDRG Document 225

Further complaint of Froim GOLDENBERG from Kremenets on incorrect inclusion of him and his family in townlet Podbereztsy list of taxable persons and excessive taxation of his family.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-225 1822-1823

 

CA 225 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1822-1825, Central Archives Document HM 3-263.02; KDRG Document 226

1.Further complaint of SHVARTSAPEL, charge d'affaires of Jews, from townlet Radzivilov for assessor VISLOTSKIY, who sealed shops and demands tax collection for selling yeast, also complaints about scaleskeeper, Odessa 1st guild merchant Volf MINKUS and box tax collectors.

2. Further request of Jewish community leaders Mordukh GERTSINSHTEYN and Ios SHUKHMAN for arrears defrayment from box taxes amounts collected.

3. Interpretation of Volyn province administration for box tax and collector's list of names.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-226 1822-1825

 

CA 226 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1824, Central Archives Document HM 3-263.09; KDRG Document 227

Request of Vol GOLDRING and Srul BINSHTOK for permission to build a provisions storehouse.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-227 1824

 

CA 227 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1831, Central Archives Document HM 3-262.19; KDRG Document 222

Per complaint of Kremenets 3rd guild merchant Zisa (Zus) PINSBERG concerning his companions, merchants Shaya FRUKHTMAN. Moyshe RAYKH and Ayzik BRODSKIY who together with policemen took all his goods and who beat him and his family.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-222 1831

 

CA 222 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1831, Central Archives Document HM 3-262.28; KDRG Document 223

Further complaints of Jewish community leaders of townlet Poritsk: Zalman GOLDFARB and Berko SHNAPER concerning conscription duty. The persons in charge conscripted to the army for their community Nota FILKENSHTEYN from Poritsk.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-223 1831

 

CA 223 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1831, Central Archives Document HM 3-262.43; KDRG Document 224

Further requests to issue passports for traveling abroad to 1st Guild merchant Abram KHAVKIN with his son Iosif, Dubno municipality member Ios ALEXANDROVICH, Kremenets 3rd guild merchant Mendel LANDESBERG with children.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-224 1831

 

CA 224 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1831-1835, Central Archives Document HM 2-9777.13; KDRG Document 191

About measures for destruction of harmful Chasidic works." in connection with the Kremenets Jews' report: Geometry teachers in the Volyn Lyceum, Savitskiy, Leyb Mikhel and Yakov Berenshtejn, concerning distribution of Chasidic literature and inclusion in traditional periodicals of Chasidic addenda. In the reports: Censor Tugengold (1831) "On Jewish compositions of Chasidic sect", head of Belostok region, concerning a Jewish printing house in Belostok.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA 191 1831-1835

 

CA 191 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1833-1834, Central Archives Document HM 3-513.16; KDRG Document 237

Chancery of Kiev Governor. Report of Kiyev merchant Aleksander VINOGRADOV, a baptized Jew, on Kremenets Jew Nakhman MORGULIS, who lived illegally in Kiyev and was under investigation, accused of smuggling illegal goods.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-237 1833-1834

 

CA 237 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1835, Central Archives Document HM 2-8967.3; KDRG Document 152

List of residents of the town of Kremenets who suffered losses as result of fire on April 13, 1835.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-152, 1835

 

The CA-152 reference is our project ID number for this document. It is followed by the years the document covers. The “Location in Source” column gives the page number of the original document on which the name appears.

 

The extract that we have consists of one page. It is a list of names of 5 signatories, plus 12 heads of household, the number of men and women in the household, a description of the property lost in the fire and its value, and the amount paid in compensation.

It is handwritten, in Russian. Central Archives (CA) Catalog No. HM2-8967.3, Kremenets District Research Group (KDRG) Document No. 152. Translated by Alex Kopelberg for Rose Feldman of the Litin Group. Edited by Dr. Ronald D. Doctor. A “Names Index” has been added at the end of the translation.

 

1837, Central Archives Document HM 3-252.08; KDRG Document 217

According to the request of the barbers from Kremenets, Gershko ROZENKRANTS and Mortko GRINSHTEYN with comrades, concerning liberation from duties: conscription, Jewish community; and provision for soldiers in connection with them doing permanent smallpox "vaccinations".

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-217  1837

 

CA 217 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1837-1841, Central Archives Document HM 2-8977.5; KDRG Document 031

Reports on illegal fundraising among Kremenets and Vishnevets residents

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-031, 1837-1841

 

The  CA-031 reference is our project ID number for this document. It is followed by the years the document covers. The “Location in Source” column gives the page number of the original document on which the name appears.

 

This document contains a number of “Requests, reports, correspondence and other information on illegal fundraising among town Kremenets and borough Vishnevets' residents for Jerusalem Jews, the poor and orphans.  1837-1841.” It includes a list of donors. So far, we have a 34 page excerpt in Russian and Yiddish from the 284 page document. Typed and handwritten. Total file size is about 1.9 GB. Partial translation by Alex Kopelberg. A “Names Index” has been added to the translation. The translated portion has 66 different surnames among 114 different personal names.

 

We obtained additional pages from the Central Archives in 2008. Translation currently is in progress.

 

1840-1841, Central Archives Document HM 2/8978.2; KDRG Document 146

List of Conscripted Jews, Oleksinets (1840-1841), and Vishnevets

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-146, 1840-1841

 

This is one in a series of documents we are obtaining from Archives in Poland, Ukraine and Russia for Kremenets and surrounding towns. The CA-146 reference is our project ID number for this document. The second line identifies the years the document covers. See the document description below.

 

This document deals with monetary assessments against the Jewish communities of Oleksinets (Staryy), Vishnevets, and Vyshgorodok for matters relating to the conscription of 1837. It includes names of the communities’ legal representatives, the Vishnevets Rabbi, and short lists of the conscripted Jews. We have pages 1 through 44 from this 184 page document (except for pp 13-16, 19, 29, 31-39, & 43, which are missing). It is in Russian with signatures in Hebrew from a 184 page document. Handwritten. Total file size is 914 MB. Partial Translation by Alex Kopelberg and Susan Sobel. Note: Pages are out of order; some pages do not have original page numbers; and some pages are cut off at sides. We have added a “Names Index” to the translation. The excerpt has 39 different surnames among 67 different personal names.

 

1842, Central Archives Document HM 2-9892.8; KDRG Document 246

Chancery of Kiev, Volyn , Podolia General-Governor

Report of Ita Khaya and Leyba ZAGORODER on leaders of the Jewish community of Vishnevets, who concealed in 1834 a few souls while compiling list of taxable persons and included Jews from abroad and from other communities.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-246 1842

 

CA 246 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1843-1846, Central Archives Document HM 2-9891.7; KDRG Document 244

Chancery of Kiev, Volhyn, Podolia General-Governor

Further reports of Mordekhay PERELMITER on Kremenets Rabbi Mordekhay Volf  FRENKEL, who organized "secret fundraising" from yeast profits.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-244 1843-1846

 

CA 244 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1847, Central Archives Document HM 3-260.07; KDRG Document 220

About allotment of certificates issued by Rovno secondary school for liberation from conscription to Nachman SHTOKFISH from Radyvyliv, Shmuel VAYNSHTEYN, Lev and Moshe BRONSHTEYN from Kremenets.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-220 1847

 

CA 220 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1849, Central Archives Document HM2/9540.1; KDRG Document 042

Volhyn province Beit-Midrash registers for Zaslav, Ostrog  district and boroughs: Krzemieniec, Belozerka, Berezn, Vishnevets, Vishgorodok, Katerburg, Lanovtsy, Oleksinets (Old), Pochayev, Radzivilov, Shushki, Yampol. Also includes name lists for synagogue communities of Dubno, Varkovichi, Rovno, Berezno, Mezhirichi ( Rovno district).

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-042, 1849

 

The document is from the Zhitomir Region State Archive, Zhitomir, Fond 71, opus 1, file 920. However, the excerpts we have do NOT contain information about Kremenets and nearby villages. They focus on Dubno, Varkovichi, Rovno, Berezno, Mezhirichi (Rovno district). Alex Kopelberg and Alexander Sharon did partial translations.

 

1853, Central Archives Document HM 3-260.54; KDRG Document 221

Per request of Rivne secondary school 4th grade student Yakov KAMENITSHNE from Kremenets about issuing to him the certificate for exemption from conscription.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-221 1853

 

CA 221 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1867, Central Archives Document HM 3-494.06; KDRG Document 235

Zhitomir School for Rabbis. On appointment of Rabbi and pedagogical faculties' graduates as teachers of state Jewish schools: Moshe SHTEYNKROYN –Vinnytsya; Bentsion KRAVETS-Vasylkiv; Duvid MATSHIN (MOCHIN) and Ayzik MIKHKIN-Kanev.

Request for discharge due to illness: the Bible teacher of the Kremenets State Jewish School Hirsh VARSHAVER.

On permission to the Radomysl State School for Israil GLIKMAN to enter the University of St.Vladimir in Kiyev.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-235 1867

 

CA 235 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1870-1871, Central Archives Document HM 3-496.03; KDRG Document 236

Zhitomir School for Rabbis.

On appointment of Rabbis from among the school's graduates:

Moisey VIZIN–Konotop; teachers to state Jewish schools-Lev DAN and Iona FARBER-Kremenchug; Leyba BERNSHTEYN-Letichev; Moisey YUFA-Zaslav;  Khaim MARGOLESH- Radzivilov; Yankel LEVIN-Rovno;  Anshel BOLUKHER-Ataki; Gershon KORSHUN-Skvira;  Leyb BORENSHTEYN-Letichev; Iosif GRUNYAN-Taganrog, Russia;  Vulf  BRONSHTEYN-Skvira; Khaim ROZENBERG-Starokonstantinov;  Yakov SHUR-Dubno; Yudel GORDON-Vasylkiv; David ELSHANSKIY-Bratslav; Mendel EPSHTEYN-Khotin;  Mordko ISTSER-Rovno.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-236 1870-1871

 

CA 236 is our KDRG document ID number. It is followed by the years the document covers. This document has not yet been translated. Names are taken from the Central Archives Catalog card. The “Location in Source” column identifies the Central Archives Catalog Number for the document.

 

1925-1937, Central Archives Document HM 2-9247.9; KDRG Document 096

Reports, correspondence and other material related to the activities of  Association for the Care for the Religious Education of Orphans and Poor Children, “Chinuch Yeladim”, in Krzemieniec.  List of the management committee members..

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-096, 1925-1937

 

The  CA-096 reference is our project ID number for this document. It is followed by the years the document covers. The “Location in Source” column gives the page number of the original document on which the name appears.

 

This document contains correspondence relating to the Management Committee of the Association for Care for the Religious Education of Orphans and Poor Children, “Chinuch Yeladim” in Kremenets. Typewritten and handwritten. 50 pages in Polish. Typewritten and handwritten. Central Archives (CA) Catalog No. HM 2-9247.9. Kremenets District Research Group (KDRG) Document No. 096. Translated by Alex Sharon. Edited by Ronald D. Doctor. A “Names Index” has been added to the translation. It has 79 different personal names.

 

1927-1934, Central Archives Document HM2/9247.5; KDRG Document 082

Reports, correspondence and other materials related to the registration, activity and the liquidation of the Kremenets branch of the “Jewish Women’s Association”. List of the Association members and statutes,.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-082, 1927-1934

 

The  CA-082 reference is our project ID number for this document. It is followed by the years the document covers. The “Location in Source” column gives the page number of the original document on which the name appears.

 

This document contains correspondence relating to the registration of the Kremenets Women’s Association. 7 pages in Polish. Typewritten and handwritten. Total file size is about 2.4 MB. Central Archives Catalog No. HM 2-9247.5. Kremenets District Research Group (KDRG) Document No. 082. Translated by Alex Sharon. Edited by Ronald D. Doctor. A “Names Index” has been added to the translation. It has 41 different personal names.

 

1928, Central Archives Document HM 2-9246.20; KDRG Document 143

Authorization for a United Jewish Schools branch to open in Lanovtsy.

19 Mar 1928. List of 10 committee members.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-143, 1928

 

The CA-143 reference is our project ID number for this document. It is followed by the years the document covers. The “Location in Source” column gives the page number of the original document on which the name appears.

 

This document contains correspondence the named committee members to open a United Jewish School in Lanovtsy. 1 page in Polish. Typewritten. Central Archives (CA) Catalog No. HM2-9246.20, Kremenets District Research Group (KDRG) Document No. 143. Translated by Anna Brune. Edited by Dr. Ronald D. Doctor. A “Names Index” has been added at the end of the translation. It has 10 different personal names.

 

1928, Central Archives Document HM 2-8986.1; KDRG Document 124.

Society for the Care of the Jewish Orphans and the Abandoned Children in Wolynia. Budget of the Society for the livelihood of orphans in Krzemieniec district for school year 1929/30.  List of children under The Society’s care in Vishnevets, Pochayev, Belozerka, Vyshgorodok, and Kremenets. Typewritten .

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-124, 1928

 

CA-124 is our Project ID number for this document. It is followed by the year the document covers, 1928. The “Location in Source” column gives the page number followed by the line number in the table of names on which the name appears.

 

The document includes memoranda dealing with the Association’s budget and presents the budget for 1929-1930. The excerpts also present tables with the names of orphans from Vishnevets, Pochayev, Shumskoye, Belozerka, Vyshgorodok, and Kremenets who were under the Association’s care. The document is in Polish. It was translated by Alex Sharon. Ellen Garshick did data entry and name transcription. Dr. Ronald D. Doctor did editing and formatting. We have added a "Personal Names Index” has been added to the translation. It has 238 different personal names.

 

1933-1935, Central Archives Document HM 2-9246.9; KDRG Document 131

League for the Assistance of those Working in Palestine, Belozerka Branch

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-131, 1933-1935

 

CA-131 is our Project ID number for this document. It is followed by the year the document covers, 1933-1935. The “Location in Source” column gives the page number followed by the line number in the table of names on which the name appears.

 

The document includes memoranda dealing with the League’s elections and membership. The excerpts present names of management committee and members of the League for the Assistance of those Working in Palestine, Belozerka Branch, 1933-1935.  Includes addresses, birth years, birth towns, and names of parents of management committee members. The document is in Polish. It was translated by Alex Sharon. Dr. Ronald D. Doctor edited and formatted the document. We have added a "Personal Names Index”. It has 52 different personal names.

 

1934, Central Archives Document HM 2-8982.13; KDRG Document 091

Kremenets 7-grade private Hebrew elementary school “Tarbut”

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-091, 1934

 

The CA-091 reference is our Kremenets District Research Group document number. It is followed by the years the document covers. The “Location in Source” column gives the page number of the original document on which the name appears.

 

This 6 page excerpt has a list of students in the Tarbut school and names of their parents. The document has almost 230 names plus 69 “see” and “see also” references.. It is handwritten in Polish. A “Personal Names Index” has been added to the translation.

 

 

1934-1936, Central Archives Document HM 2-9248.13; KDRG Document 094

Organization of the Zionist-Revisionists (Beit haZohar) in Kremenets and Lanovets

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-094, 1934-1936

 

The CA-094 reference is our project ID number for this document. It is followed by the years the document covers. The “Location in Source” column gives the page number of the original document on which the name appears.

 

This 4 page excerpt includes reports, correspondence and other material related to the activities of “Organization of The Zionists-Revisionists ‘Beit haZohar’ in Krzemieniec and Lanowce”. It has two tables listing the management committee members. The tables include names of 19 people (some duplicated), giving their position in the Organization, date and place of birth, address, nationality, occupation, “wealth status”, party allegiance, and penalties. One-half page typed plus 3-1/2 pages handwritten.

 

1934-1936, Central Archives Document HM2/8982.14; KDRG Document 099

Activity report and statutes of 7-grade private Hebrew elementary school “Tarbut” in Krzemieniec.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-099, 1934-1936

 

The CA-099 reference is our Kremenets District Research Group document number. It is followed by the years the document covers. The “Location in Source” column gives the page number of the original document on which the name appears.

 

This 15 page excerpt contains tables listing the names and birthdates of students in the Tarbut school, names of parents and names and other information about the 8 teachers in the school. The document has almost 415 names. It is handwritten in Polish. Total file size is about 20 MB. A “Personal Names Index” and a “Town Name Index” have been added to the translation.

 

Central Archives Documents: Feepayer Lists, 1935-1936

Kremenets Feepayer List, 1935, HM2/9248.15, KDRG Document 95

Kremenets Feepayer List, 1936, HM2/9248.21, KDRG Document 102

Shumskoye Feepayer List, 1936, HM2/9248.22, KDRG Document 141

Vishnevets Feepayer List, 1936, HM2/9248.20, KDRG Document 174

 

Abbreviations in Source Column:   Fee-Krem-1935

                                                      Fee-Krem-1936

                                                      Fee-Vish-1936

                                                      Fee-Shum-1936

 

These feepayer lists are among the last lists of residents prior to the Holocaust. The Source Column entry identifies the list. The original is in Polish, which we have transliterated to English, using the Kremenets Transliteration System. The original Polish spelling of names also is given in the spreadsheet. The “Location in Source” entry identifies the computer file number and the line within the list on which each name appears, eg. “5  184” indicates that name appears in file 5, line 184 of the list. A separate database (available on the Kremenets Shtetlinks website) lists the various occupations in Polish and their English equivalents.

 

The 1935 Kremenets list was created in December 1934. It gives the full names of all 1,155 "feepayers" or "dues payers" in the Jewish Community of Kremenets. It also lists the amount of dues assessed for 1935. The list provides the occupation of each feepayer, his/her street address and town, and his/her town name, which sometimes is not Kremenets, but rather a nearby town (Dubno, Lutsk, Pochayev, Shumsk, Velikiye Berezhtsy, Vishnevets and Zbarazh).

 

The 1936 Kremenets list contains more than 1,100 personal name entries

 

The 1936 Vishnevets list was created in December 1935. It gives the full names of all 616 "feepayers" or "dues payers" in the Jewish Community of Vishnevets. It also lists the amount of dues paid in 1935 plus the amount assessed for 1936. The list provides the occupation of each feepayer. Some of the feepayers live in nearby towns (Lanovtsy, Staryy Aleksinets, Belozerka, Vyshgorodok, Kolodnoye, Novyy Oleksinets).

 

The 1936 Shumsk list was created in December 1935. It gives the full names of all 277 "feepayers" or "dues payers" in the Jewish Community of Vishnevets. It also lists the amount of dues assessed for 1936. The list provides the occupation of each feepayer. Some of the feepayers live in nearby towns (Borki, Dederkaly Male, Hucisko, Poland, Katerinovka, Ostrog, Przemorovka, Rakhmanov, Sadki, Volkovtse, and Zaliztsi).

 

1936-1937, Central Archives Document HM2/8982.15; KDRG Document 100

Activity report and statutes of 7-grade private Hebrew elementary school “Tarbut” in Krzemieniec.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-100, 1936-1937

 

The CA-100 reference is our Kremenets District Research Group document number. It is followed by the years the document covers. The “Location in Source” column is of the form xx/yy. Here, xx refers to the page number of the original document on which the name appears, and yy refers to the line number in the table of names.

 

This 6 page excerpt contains tables listing the names and birth years of students in the Tarbut school as well as the names and addresses of parents. The document has 195 names. It is handwritten in Polish. We have added a “Personal Names Index” to the translation.

 

1938-1939, Central Archives Document 2/9246.12; KDRG Doc 110

Reports and correspondence related to the registration of the Krzemieniec branch of the “Committee assisting German Jewish Refugees” and election of the management.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: CA-110, 1938

 

The CA-110 reference is our Kremenets District Research Group document number. It is followed by the years the document covers. The “Location in Source” column gives the page number of the original document on which the name appears.

 

In 1938, German Jews fled Germany as a result of increasingly anti-Jewish legislation and violence against Jews. Many fled eastward into Poland. Jewish communities throughout Poland took in the refugees and provided for their welfare. At first Polish authorities opposed these activities. But by the end of 1939, they relented and allowed the local communities to form committees to assist the German Jewish refugees. This document contains correspondence between the provincial authorities and the Kremenets committee. It includes a list of the committee members along their birth dates and addresses, as well as other information. 7 pages in Polish. Typewritten. Total file size is about 3 MB. Translated by Alex Sharon. Edited by Ronald D. Doctor. A “Names Index” has been added to the translation. It has 12 different personal names.

 

EIDB, Passenger manifests extracted from the Ellis Island Database

 

Abbreviations in Source Column: EIDB  yyyy

 

Location in Source Column: nnnnnnnnnnn, or, http://... , a shortened URL.

 

In the Source column, yyyy is the year of immigration.

 

The Location in Source column provides either a Passenger ID (PID) number or a shortened URL that can be used to locate the manifest.  Each passenger listed in the EIDB is associated with a unique PID. Steve Morse’s One-Step website has a form that enables you to locate a manifest using the PID (http://www.stevemorse.org/ellis/pid.html).  In some cases, the PID points to the wrong manifest. In these cases we have identified the correct URL. However, these URLs are much too long to present in the Concordance. Instead, we have used Google URL to create a shortened URL which is given in place of the PID.

 

The Concordance currently displays 2,914 entries from 1,041 records that represent all the EIDB records we have located for the towns of Shumsk and Vishnevets. We will add other towns as we extract, format, and proofread new data.

 

Jewish Encyclopedia, Online Edition

 

Abbreviations in Source Column: JE

 

This article is from the online version of the Jewish Encyclopedia (www.jewishencyclopedia.com), which originally was published in 12 volumes between 1901 and 1906. References in this Surname Index to the article about Kremenets (Kremenetz in the JE) are identified in the Source Column by the abbreviation JE, and in the Location in Source column by the Search Term, Kremenetz.

 

Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw): Child Survivors of Kremenet Shoah

 

Abbreviations in Source Column: JHI, Child Survivors

 

This document list 6 surnames of Kremenets child survivors of the Holocaust. The names were obtained from Yale Reisner of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw in 2002.

 

Kremenetser Landsmanshaftn Documents from New York

Chevra Beth Duvid Kraminitzer Anshi Poland, NY (KrNY-1, 1907)

Kreminitzer Congregation Beth Duvid Anshi Poland, NY (KrNY-2, 1909)

Kremenitzer Young People’s Progressive Club, NY ()

 

Abbreviations in Source Column: KrNY-1, 1907

                                                       KrNY-2, 1909

       KrNY-3, 1914

 

On 2 December 1907, the First Independent Kraminitzer Benevolent Association and the Kishener and Kraminitzer Congregation Beth Duvid merged. The new organization was called Chevra Beth Duvid Kraminitzer Anshi Poland (KrNY-1). The document, recorded at the Supreme Court, New York County, identifies the people who were involved in the consolidation of these two societies. This document is identified in the Source Column by the abbreviation KrNY-1, and in the Location in Source column by the term, 1907.

 

In 1909, the Kremnitzer Congregation of the House of Duvid and the Chevra Gemilath Chesed Anshi Poland merged. The new organization was named Kreminitzer Congregation Beth Duvid Anshi Poland. It also was known as the Congregation or Brotherhood of the former residents of the City of Kreminitz, Russia-Poland. Two documents dated 8 May 1909 list the officers of each organization. The documents were filed with the Supreme Court of the State of New York. These documents are identified in the Source Column by the abbreviation KrNY-2a and KrNY-2b, and in the Location in Source column by the term, 1909.

 

The Certificate of Incorporation (no. 4389) for the Kremenitzer Young People’s Progressive Club of New York was filed and recorded on 18 September 1914. Earlier papers are dated 19 August and 9 September 1914. The documents were recorded at the Supreme Court of the State of New York. It identifies the people who were involved in the incorporation and gives their home addresses. The document is identified in the Source Column by the abbreviation KrNY-3, and in the Location in Source column by the Search Term, 1914.

 

Kremenets Landsmanshaft in New York, Membership List, 27 Apr 1973 (KrNY-4 1973)

 

Abbreviations in Source Column: KrNY-4 1973

 

Kremenetser Membership List, 27 April 1973. Norm Kagan, son of William (Wolf) Kagan, sent us an e-mail message containing names of 23 NYC Kremenitzers. (Wolf Kagan was Secretary of the NY Kremenitz Landsmanshaft.) The names are from a handwritten list that he found among his father's papers. The list "was written on stationary which read, in part: 'Ribal Library of Haskalah - in memory of the martyrs of Kremenetz, Volyn at the Teachers' State college Seminar Hakibutzim, Tel Aviv, Bnei Efraim Str. 1."  The list is published on the Kremenets Shtetlinks website: http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/Reports_and_other_materials.

 

Kremenets Memorial Album at "Seminar haKibbutzim" in Tel Aviv, Israel

 

Abbreviations in Source Column: MA

 

In the 1960s, emigrants from Kremenets produced a “Kremenets Memorial Album” at "Seminar haKibbutzim" in Tel Aviv, Israel. We have photographed and translated to English each page. The pages were written, mostly around 1966, by surviving members of some of the families who were murdered by the Nazis and their Ukrainian collaborators in Kremenets, Ukraine in 1942. A few entries memorialize emigrants from Kremenets who subsequently died in Israel and in the Diaspora. The translated Album contains a personal name index with 736 entries. The Index points to the page on which each name appears. The index also gives patronymics and other relationships as well as birth years, all extracted from information in the Album.

 

The “Location in Source” column of the Concordance gives the page number of the original document on which each name is found.

 

Memoirs and Remembrances submitted by our members

 

Abbreviations in Source Column: Memoirs, aaaaaa
     where “aaaaaa” is the surname of the family in the memoir

 

Memoirs are on our website at:

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/memoirs.html

 

  • Source: Memoir, Karson
    Location in Source
    : nn, where nn is a page number in this 19 page document
    The life and times of Etta Gittelman Karson”, an autobiography, includes photos

  • Source: Memoir, Katz
    Location in Source
    : nn, where nn is a page number in this 4 page document
    David (Dusia) Katz, a Remembrance”, by Maya Katz Golan

  • Source: Memoir, Kagan
    Location in Source: nn, where nn is a page number in this 5 page document
    The Kagan Family from Kremenets”, by Norm Kagan, includes photos

  • Source: Memoir, Marmot
    Location in Source: nn, where nn is a page number in this 2 page document
    Woolf Marmot’s Memoirs: How Dora Kritser and Alec Marmot Married”, an excerpt

  • Source: Memoir, Tessler
    Location in Source: nn, where nn is a page number in this 2 page document
    Tobe and Joseph Tessler of Kremenets”, by David Tessler

  • Source: Memoir, Segal
    Location in Source: nn, where nn is a page number in this 3 page document
    “Krementz, by Dora Segal”, submitted by David Tessler

  • Source: Memoir, Plotka
    Location in Source: nn, where nn is a page number in this 27 page document
    “Memories of Morris Plotka (Koludna, Russia to Mobile, Alabama), Sept. 8, 1895 – Feb 21, 1978”, by Shelley Hebert

  • Source: Memoir, Winer, Gershon (2009).
    Location in Source: nnn, where nnn is a page number.
    Gershon
    Winer – A Memoir: Victory in Defeat.  Privately printed. Israel, 2009. ISBN: 978-965-555-384-0. Shalom Bronstein (sygaa@netvision.net.il) has a copy given to him by Gershon’s widow Nehamah, Sivan 5769.

 

Parnes, Louis (1954)  (Parnes)

 

Abbreviations in Source Column: Parnes

 

Louis Parnes, a Vishnevets emigrant who was born in 1869, wrote this limited distribution book.

 

Parnes, Louis (1954), The vanishing generations. New York: Rausen Bros., 177 p. LC Classification: DS135.R95 P37 1997. Also on the Web at http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/vishnevets/vishnevets.html

 

The book mentions several people from Vishnevets. They are identified in the Source Column by the name Parnes. Currently, page number references for each name are not available. Additional information about the author and the book is available on the Vishnevets Shtetlinks website (http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/vishnevets/vishnevets.html).

 

Pinkas haKehilot (Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities): Poland, Vol. 5 Volhynia & Polesie, Shmuel Spector (Ed.), Yad Vashem

Abbreviation in Source: Pinkas haKehilot: Poland

The excerpts we have from this volume contain articles about the following towns: Visotsk, Vishegrodek, Vishnevets, Vladimirtz, Foborsk, Folvarki, Pochayev, Krasne, Krupyetz, Krimno, Krichilsk, Kremenets, Karpilovka, Shatsk, and Shumsk. They have been translated and await editing.

 

Photo Memoirs submitted by our members

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: Photos Name nnnn, where Name is the surname of the person submitting the photos and nnnn is the approximate year in which the photos were taken.

 

Location in Source Column: Name xxx, where xxx is a number identifying the photo or a short filename for the photo.

 

The photos appear on the Photo Memoirs page of our website. Currently it contains:

  • Photo Memoir, Goldenberg family, submitted by David Goldenberg
  • Photo Memoir, Fidel family, submitted by Itzhak Bar-Ziv

 

Montefiore Jewish Cemetery, Queens, NY, Kremenetser Burials

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: Montefiore Cemetery

 

Location in Source Column: nn-mmk, where nn is the row number, mm is the grave number within the row, and k is L or R for the Left or Right side of the center aisle.

 

The Cemetery is at 121-83 Springfield Boulevard, Springfield Gardens, St. Albans, Queens, NY 11413.  A plot map is on our website. The plot map shows 88 burials including names of the deceased and date of death. It was produced by the Kremenetzer Wolyner Benevolent Society and comprises Block 4, Rows 1 through 11 (an 80 by 73+ foot area). Entries were made on 6 November 1936, with corrections made on 31 October 1938. Subsequent entries through 1986 were made by hand. Eighty names of plot owners and deceased are on the plot map, along with death dates for the deceased. Michael Fox (yazdik@gmail.com) provided the plot map, which he obtained from his father.

 

Pochayev Voliner Aid Society-Har Jehuda Cemetery, Pennsylvania

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: Har Jehuda Cemetery, PA

 

Location in Source Column: A-nn,B-m,Cpp, yyyy-zzzz, where A-nn, B-m, Cpp is the location of the gravesite in the Cemetery (Section, Line, and Grave numbers) and yyyy-zzzz gives the birth and death years, where available.

 

The Cemetery is at 8400 Lansdowne Ave., Upper Darby, Pennsylvania 19082 (near Philadelphia). The Har Jehuda website has a property map online at:

http://www.harjehuda.com/har_juhuda_property_map.htm

A link to the property map also is on our website.

 

The burial list was obtained and updated by Lisa Brahin Weinblatt (REDBALL62@aol.com), August 2009. The Cemetery lists the owner of the plots as the Independent Voliner Aid Society, which subsequently was known as the Pitchayever Wohliner Aid Society, or, the Pochayev Voliner Aid Society. The

Secretary of Association’s plots is Mr. Louis Cooper. There are 83 graves, but the list includes some names of spouses, mothers and fathers, so that the Concordance has 128 names, including 8 “see” references.

 

Polish Aliyah Passports

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: Polish Aliyah Passports

 

The Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw has collected 3,754 Polish Aliyah Passports issued in the 1920s and 1930s to Polish citizens seeking to travel to British Mandate Palestine. The Passports subsequently were returned to Poland. Nine of these passports contain information about 15 people from the Kremenets area. Their names, towns, and birth years are in the Concordance. The full database is searchable through JRI-Poland (http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl). Data in the database includes Surname, Given Name, birth year, birth town, town of last residence, occupation, marital status, destination (British Mandate Palestine), Card & Passport Nos., and photo. In our Concordance, we indicate the CO-OP’s file number for each of the nine passports.

 

Reports (Meetings, Travel, etc.) submitted by our members

 

Abbreviations in Source Column: Reports, aaaaaa
      where aaaaaa is an abbreviation identifying the Report

 

Travel Reports are on our website at:

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/travel-reports.html

Meeting Reports are on our website at:

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/update-reports.html

 

Travel and Meeting Reports currently include the following:

 

  • Source: Reports-Travel, UJ 2002
    Location in Source: nnn, where nnn is a page number in this 121 page document.
    Ukraine Journal, a Genealogical Journey to Warsaw and Ukraine”, by Ronald D. Doctor. Includes many photos, August 2002

  • Source: Reports-Travel, Marmot 2005
    Location in Source: nn, where nn is a page number in this 5 page document
    Woolf Marmot’s Trip Memo, Ukraine”, by Woolf Marmot, August 2005

  • Source: Reports-Travel, Hebert 2009
    Location in Source: nn, where nn is a page number in this 6 page document
    “Visit to Kolodno, Ukraine”, by Shelley Hebert, July 2009

  • Source: Reports-Meeting, Askara 2009
    Location in Source: nn, where nn is a page number in this 3 page document
    Askara, Kremenets and Shumsk Association in Israel”, by Rachel Karni, 16 Aug 2009
    Report of the annual meeting of the Kremenets-Shumsk Association at Seminar Hakibbutzim, Israel.

  • Source: Reports-Meeting, KDRG 2009
    Location in Source: KDRG 2009, nn, where nn is a page number in this 3 page document.
    KDRG Annual Meeting, 3 August 2009”, by Ronald D. Doctor
    Report of the 1st annual meeting of the Kremenets District Research Group. The meeting was held at the 2009 IAJGS Conference.

 

Revizskiy Skazki. Russian Revisian Lists (Census data)

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: RS 18xx nnnnnnn, where 18xx is the year of the Revision List followed by a 7 digit number that is the LDS Family History Library Microfilm Number. Some entries do not have this microfilm number since they were extracted from archival documents directly.

 

Location in Source column is in the form nnn-yy for records obtained directly from the Archives, the where nnn is the family number in the Census and yy is the page number, where available. (Some pages are not numbered.) For records obtained from the FHL on microfilm and transferred to computer DVDs, the Location in Source column is in the form mmmm yyy-nnn, where mmmm is the image file number in the folder for that microfilm, yyy is the page number in the original document, and nnn is the family number in the original document. Note that for all but the earliest Censuses, the page number covers two physical pages of the Revision List. The left leaf documents males in the household. The right leaf (usually with the page number in the upper right corner) documents females in the household.

 

The Revision Lists that we have obtained are censuses of Jewish residents in the towns of the Kremenets District. They include the years 1811, 1816, 1850, and 1858, plus supplementary Censuses taken in-between those years. We do not have Jewish records from the 1834 Census. They are available at the Mormon Family History Library on the following microfilms: 2376396, 2375506, 2213479 through 2213482, 2270287, 2270288, 2346519, 2270317, and 2269547 through 2269549. The first 6 films are for the 7th Revision (1811). The 8th Revision (1834) is on microfilm nos. 2213482 through 2213487 and 2234586 through 2234592, but we did not find Jewish records in our initial perusal of these films. The next 3 films are for the 9th Revision (1850). And, the last 4 films are for the 10th Revision (1858). Part of the 10th Revision is on film 2346519. In total, we have 13,546 pages, about 11.8 MB of data on dvd. We estimate that the microfilms contain about 40,000 records with more than 150,000 names.

 

 

Shtetl Finder: Jewish Communities in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

(Gazetteer by Chester G. Cohen.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column:  Shtetl Finder Gazetteer

The Location in Source column gives the page number and town name from the Gazetteer.

 

 

Shumsker Relief Society, Souvenir Journal.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column:  Shumsker NY Journal 1946

The Location in Source column identifies the page on which each name appears.

This is the Souvenir Journal for a Dinner-Reception held by the Society. It was “dedicated to the rehabilitation of our surviving brethren of the town of Shumsk; and to the rescue of the Jewish orphans of Europe.” Rachel Karni sent the title page, a page listing the officers and committee members, and an “In Memoriam” page.  The Concordance contains 158 entries from this document.

 

 

Słownik Geograficzny: Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajow slowianskich, 1880-1904

(Geographic Dictionary of the Former Kingdom of Poland and Other Slavic Lands)

 

Abbreviation in Source Column:  Słownik-Kremenets

                                                   Słownik-Oleksinets

                                                   Słownik-Shumsk

                                                   Słownik-Vishnevets

 

Słownik Geograficzny: Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajow slowianskich (Geographic Dictionary of the Former Kingdom of Poland and Other Slavic Lands) was published between 1880 and 1904. We have translated the entries for Kremenets (Krzemieniec) & Oleksinets (Oleksiniec) which were published between 1880 & 1889; Shumskoye (Szumsk), Vishnevets (Wiśniowiec) published in 1889 & 1893, respectively. These entries summarize the history of each town, identifying the magnates who owned the towns at various times. We have added name and town indexes to each translated entry.

 

The Kremenets entry is not yet translated.

 

The Oleksinets entry was published in 1889. Marianna D. Romaniuk did the translation from Polish to English. Richard M. Spector was the Translation Editor. He submitted the translation to the Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP on 18 Aug 2006. The translated document includes name and place indexes and 30 Concordance entries for Oleksinets.

 

The Shumsk entry was published in 1889. Marianna D. Romaniuk did the translation from Polish to English. Richard M. Spector was the Translation Editor. He submitted the translation to the Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP on 18 Aug 2006. The translated document includes name and place indexes and 47 Concordance entries for Shumsk.

 

The Vishnevets entry was published in 1893. Marianna D. Romaniuk did the translation from Polish to English. Richard M. Spector was the Translation Editor. He submitted the translation to the Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP on 18 Aug 2006. The translated document includes name and place indexes and 68 Concordance entries for Vishnevets.

 

Vital Records (VR)

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: Kremenets VR 60B1870, or,

                                                  Vyshgorodok CA-B1888

 

These are examples of source abbreviations for names from vital records. The Kremenets entries give you the town name and abbreviated LDS Microfilm Number, tells you what type of record this is (B=Birth, M=Marriage, v=Divorce, D=Death), and in what year the event occurred. For example: 60B1870 means that the microfilm number is 2086060, the record is a birth record, and the birth occurred in 1870. The Vyshgorodok entries give the town name, CA means the records were obtained from the Central Archives for the history of the Jewish People, B1888 means this is an 1888 Birth record.

 

For Kremenets, the “Location in Source” column identifies the file number from the corresponding cd-rom data disk. For Vyshgorodok, the “Location in Source” column entry is the page number set that is on the original ledger page. The “Location in Source” column also tells you whether the event involves a male, female or both (F=female, M=Male, x=both, as in a marriage), as well as the sequential event number. For example: 351 F43 in combination with 60B1870 means that this record is the 43rd female birth in 1870. The record is in file 351 on LDS disk (microfilm number) 2086060. Each record on the microfilms is uniquely identified in this way.

 

 

Yad Vashem, Photo Archive

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: YV Photo

The Location in Source column gives the search term to type into the Search box on the Yad Vashem webpage. In Advanced Search you can choose a “fuzzy search”, exact search, or Soundex.

This Photo Archive contains 27 photos for the search term Kremenets, 1 for Vishnevets, and 1 for Shumsk. No photos for Yampol currently are in the searchable Archive.

 

Yad Vashem, Shoah Related Lists Database, Register of Holocaust Victims.

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: YV RG O.41; name (19xx

 where name is a different identifier for each list; and 19xx is the year
 of the event that the list describes.

 

The Location in Source column gives the line number in the document on which each name is found.

 

This database is available online at Yad Vashem. To access the database, point your browser to http://www.yadvashem.org; click on "Shoah related lists database"; Then click on Advanced Search & type "Kremenets" (or any other town name). The database  consists of lists from various sources. Most of the lists are in Russian, although some are in other languages. Currently we have the following translation on our website and indexed in the Concordance.

 

·              YV RG O.41, Rayzman (1943)
List of the perished family members of Fayvil Rayzman, murdered by the Germans in an action in Krzemienic, Summer 1943
.  Record Group 0.41 - Register of Holocaust Victims, File 208, Microfilm Code 99/2501, Item No. 5265493. Translated from Hebrew by Sara Mages. There are 26 entries on the list and 35 name entries in the Concordance.

We will post additional lists as they are translated and proofread.

 

Yizkor Books

 

Abbreviation in Source Column: YB-Kremenets: Stein (example)

 

This is an example of a source abbreviation for names from Yizkor Books. Each source starts with YB-, followed by the town name. For the several Kremenets-District Yizkor Books the surname of the Yizkor Book Editor is added after the hyphen.

 

The Organization of Kremenets Emigrants produced a series of Booklets beginning in 1967 with Booklet 1 and ending in 1982 with Booklet 18. Over the course of those 16 years, the title of the Booklets and the list of editors changed. We refer to these Booklets by number and publication year in the Concordance. A typical bibliographic citation, Goldenberg …, is given below. A complete bibliography of the 18 Booklets is available in the translation of Pinkas Kremenets on the JewishGen website and on the Kremenets Shtetlinks website (http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/yizkor-books.html).

 

The “Location in Source” column in the Concordance gives the page number(s) on which the surname appears. When the entry is from a Yizkor Book Necrology, the “Location in Source” column says “Necrology”.

 

Here are the bibliographic descriptions of each Yizkor Book included (or to be included) in this Concordance.

 

Gelernt, H. (ed.) (1960). Memorial book dedicated to the Jews of Pitchayev-Wohlyn executed by the Germans (Pitshayever yisker-bukh). Philadelphia: The Pitchayever Wohliner Aid Society. One volume, 311 pages. Yiddish. Pochayev (Pitshayev) also is included in the Kremenets Yizkor Book published in Argentina. (Note: Pochayev, or Pitshayev, 50° 01’/25° 29’, 11.8 miles WSW of Kremenets.)

 

Gelman, L. (ed.) (1963). Town in Flames: Book of Yampola, district Wolyn. (Ayara be-lehavot: pinkas Yampola, pelekh Volyn). Jerusalem: Commemoration Committee for the Town with the Assistance of Yad Vashem and the World Jewish Congress. A 210 entry Necrology with 354 names (140 surname entries) is at the end of the book. One volume, 154 pp. Hebrew and Yiddish. (Note: The Necrology entries have been edited, but the Index entries have not been edited yet. Yampol is 25.4 miles ESE of Kremenets, at 49° 58’/26° 15’).

 

Goldenberg, M., Y. Rokhel, A. Argman, M. Ot-Iker, Yehoshua Golberg (eds.) (1974). Kol yotzei Kremenits baYisrael v’batfutsot (Voices of those who departed Kremenets, in Israel and the Diaspora), Booklet 11, 58 pp., Hebrew-Yiddish. Title on back cover is "Kremenitzer Landslayt Shtime, in Yisrael, in Oysland." Published by Organization of Kremenets Emigrants, 67 La Guardia St., Tel Aviv, Israel 67221 [Note: This is one of a series of 18 Booklets published by the Organization of Kremenets Emigrants.]

 

Lerner, P. (ed) (1965). Kremenits, Vishgorodek un Pitshayev; yisker-bukh (Memorial Book of Krzemieniec). Buenos Aires: Former residents of Kremenets and vicinity in Argentina. One volume, 468 pages. Yiddish. (Note: Kremenets is at 50° 06’/25° 43’.)

 

Rabin, Chayim. (1968). Szumsk...sefer zikaron le-kedoshei Szumsk. English title is, Shumsk ... memorial book of the martyrs of Szumsk. Tel Aviv: Former Residents of Shumsk in Israel. 477 pp. Hebrew & Yiddish. Partial translation is at: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/szumsk.htmlhtml#. A digitized copy of the book is available on-line at http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=2700. (Note: Shumsk is at 50° 07’/26° 07’, 17.8 miles E of Kremenets.)

 

Rabin, Chayim. (ed.) (1970). Sefer-zikharon li-kedoshe Vishnivits she-nispu be-sho’at ha-Natsim /   ha-`orekh. (Vishnevets; memorial book of the martyrs of Vishnevets who perished in the Nazi holocaust) Tel Aviv: Irgun ‘ole Vishnivits. NYPL Call No. *PXW (Vishnevets) (Vishnivits, 1970). 540 p. ill., map (on lining paper), ports; 25 cm. Re-published in a facsimile edition by the the National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2004 in cooperation with The New York Public Library. Of the 540 pages, 284 are in Hebrew and 256 are in Yiddish. The book is available on-line at http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=2779.
(Note: Vishnevets is at 49° 54’/25° 45’, 13.9 miles S of Kremenets.)

 

Stein, Abraham Samuel. (ed.) (1954). Pinkas Kremenitz (Pinkas Kremeniec: A Memorial, sefer zikharon). Tel Aviv, Israel: Former residents of Kremenets in Israel. One volume, 453 pp., Hebrew & Yiddish. Available on-line at http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=2334. (Note: Kremenets is at 50° 06’/25° 43’.)