Welcome to the KehilaLinks site for Kolki, Volhynia Gubernia (present day Ukraine). We hope this site will help you learn more about your ancestral shtetl, how your ancestors lived and perhaps help you discover names of ancestors or relatives. If you have photos, documents, stories or materials that you would like to contribute to this site, or if you find any errors, please email the coordinator, who will be happy to assist with the scanning of photos or other materials you may have. Remember to bookmark this page.

History and Background

• Where was Kolk?, by Alex Kolker.
• Partial translation of Kolki Yizkor book Fun ash aroysgerufn (Summoned from the ashes) written in 1983 by Daniel Kac.
• Locate libraries holding the Kolki Yizkor book Fun ash aroysgerufn (Summoned from the ashes).
• Yizkor Book Project: Kolki, from the Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Poland, Volume V
• Locate libraries holding copies of Memorial book: The Jewish communities of Manyevitz, Horodok, Lishnivka, Troyanuvka, Povursk and Kolki : Wolyn region. The section about Kolki starts on page 447 and is 8 pages long. The book does not appear to have a complete index of names, but this electronic index of the book can be used to determine if your family name is contained on any page. Just change the search term to your family name.
  
• Your local library may be able to obtain a copy of the above Yizkor books for you to borrow through an inter-library loan, which you may be able to request on the website of your local library.
  
• Search the full text of The Jewish Communities of Manyevitz, Horodok, Lishnivka, Troyanuvka, Povursk and Kolki : Wolyn Region, and see snippets from the book containing your search terms, on Google Books.
• 1897 Volhynia Jewish Population List, including Kolki.
• Cossacks' Uprising, and the impact on Jewish life. This article mentions Kolki as being effected by an outbreak of the plague during 1648-1658.
• Interview with former Kolki-ite, June 1999

Holocaust

• Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, contains a history of the Kolki ghetto.
  
• Article on the United States Holocaust Museum web site describing the liquidation of the Kolki ghetto.
• A brief history of Kolki in Yad Vashem's The Untold Stories: The Murder Sites of Jews in the Occupied Territories of the Former USSR.
• Read about the Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate German-Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory on JewishGen and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum web site. This report  included Kolki. Please contact me if you would like to volunteer to obtain this material and translate it from Russian.
• YAHAD-IN UNUM Town page for Kolki - Eyewitness accounts of what happened in Kolki after the Germans arrived.
• The Auschwitz searchable database allows you to search for records of those murdered at Auschwitz by name, place of birth and last residence.
  
• Search the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names on Yad Vashem.
• List of liberated Jews in Kolki, a document record in the Arolsen Archives.

Visits to Kolki

• Report on a trip to Kolki (June 2004).
• Pictures from a trip to Kolki (June 2004). This link will open a new browser window.
• A Trip to Kolki, by Jimmy Kolker (1994)
• Brief descriptions of Kolki in a trip summary on bet tal.
  

Old Photographs

• Photos from Kolki.

Archival Holdings

• Search the Ellis Island database for records of immigrants from Kolki. Searching for "Kolk", without using a surname, returns 916 records. Searching for "Kolki" returns 310 records. Searching for "Kolky" returns 58 records.
• Search for Kolki holdings in Eastern European archives identified by the Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation. The RTR inventory shows holdings in the Lutsk archives including birth, death, marriage and divorce. Records held in Zhitomir include census records from 1862, 1865 and 1868.
  
• Chapters related to Ukraine on the RTR web site.
• JewishGen InfoFiles covering Ukraine.
• Archives of Ukraine English web site.
• Minute books from the Kolker Lodge are are housed at the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center.
• Ladies Auxiliary Minute Book (1940-1972) of the Kolker Synagogue, housed at the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center.

Cemeteries

• Kolker Lodge burial plots at Montefiore Cemetery, Jenkintown, PA
• International Jewish Cemetery Project
• Hebrew Mount Carmel Cemetery, 6700 German Hill Road, Baltimore 21222, was used by Knesseth Israel Anshe Kolk, and Kolker Congregation (source)

Family Histories

• The original Kolker Family Home Page appears not to be working, but an archived copy from 2017 can be found on the Internet Archive by clicking here.
  
• The Kippelman / Kipilman Family from Kolki
• Deckelbaum Immigration - A History

Maps

• JewishGen Locality Page - provides a map of the location of Kolki as well as links to location of nearby towns.

Search JewishGen Databases

• Search the JewishGen Family Finder for others researching Kolki.
• Search the JewishGen Discussion Group message archives for references to Kolki.
• Search the JewishGen Special Interest Groups message archives.
  

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Compiled by Andrew Blumberg Updated March 25, 2023 Copyright © Andrew Blumberg

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