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Kopaigorod is a small village in southwest Ukraine, in the region of Podolia, 41 miles southwest of Vinnitsya and 15 miles SE of Bar.
Unfortunately, there isn't much written about the town of Kopaigorod. The history of the surrounding area of Kopaigorod known as Podolia is summarized in the Kehlia links page for Bar, but information about the small town of Kopaigorod itself is not easily found. Information about Bar goes back to the 1500's and we can find information on Kopaigorod starting in the 1800's. In 1847, 617 Jews were living in the town of Kopaigorod. In 1897, out of a total population of 2950, there were 1720 Jews.
» Early history of Bar, largest town near Kopaigorod (Wikipedia)
» The Jewish history of Bar (Kehilalinks)
Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 describes Jewish life in the 1920's.
The area known as Transnistria was located between the Dnister River and southern Bug River and was under Romanian control during World War II. This territory formerly belonged to the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires. It is the part of Ukraine that Hitler gave to Romania in exchange for fighting against the USSR. Jews of Serbia, Bukovina and northern Moldova were deported to Transnistria by order of Ion Antonescu. Kopogairod was part of this territory.
During WWII, Jews from Romania were imprisoned within barbed wire in Kopogairod and left with minimal food and water so that diseases like Typhus took hold. Below are some of their stories.
Watch There Was No Place in This World for Us - The Story of Chava Wolf Vizhnitzer
The internet is full of histories, some of which have descriptions of what is was like living or growing up near Kopaigorod.
» Ruvin Gitman
An interview with someone who grew up near Kopaigorod and talks about his childhood and his life and mentions Kopaigorod a few times during the interview.
» See more oral histories under "Families"
» Art du Souvenir
This virtual gallery shows little known art by painters who fell victim to or survived the Holocaust, Stalin's repressions, or the tyrannies of other brutal regimes. It also includes, but is not limited to carefully selected works by Jewish artists, many of whom are unknown, obscure or relatively forgotten. One of the artists mentioned, Joseph Bronstein, was from Kopaigorod.