Chesed-Besht Khmelnitskiy

"Chesed-Besht" Khmelnitskiy Regional Welfare Fund publication "Shtetl"

"Shtetl" Volume 1, 2000 link
Yaroslav Mikhaylovsky supplied copies of the pages of "Shtetl" Volume 1

Proskurov Ghetto Jewish underground

Translated portion of the chapter "Jews" from the book "Password Proskurov" by Nikolay Machkovsky - this part is about the Jewish underground group created in the Proskurov ghetto (Pages 30-33).

...It is worth it to quote a memo written, after the war, by the underground warrior, Fedor Nazarov, for submission to the "competent authorities". It was called "The Jewish underground group". According to his words, in January 1942, the underground group was created in the Proskurov ghetto. Its plans included to offer armed resistance to the fascists during the pogroms in the ghetto and mass executions of Jews. The group included Mikhail Freydnis, Yefim Samoylovich Gitelman, Grigory M. Kapik, Mikhail Oborotny, Sheiman [Sheinman], Goltz. They were also joined by printing workers Riva Krivulya and Genia Shamis, who collaborated with Nikolay Zapalatskim. The leader of this group was Sheiman [Sheinman]". These are the additional details from the same note: " For organizing the armed resistance, to the ghetto there were transported 43 carabines, 12 rifles, 3 machine guns by Degtyarev, 120 grenades of the RGD type, etc. It became known to the underground group that at the end of August or at the beginning of September, the Nazis intended to hold a large-scale action on the liquidation of the ghetto and the execution of its Jewish victims". Then, why did the attempt of armed resistance in the ghetto fail? Obviously, the Gestapo and the SS Sonderkommando were tracing the active people, who might have been potential warriors in the ghetto (or the German managed to insert an informer into the group? E.Sh.). Аhead of of supposed action time, the Nazis had taken the active men from the ghetto under the pretext that they should be sent to work to the labor camp located in the village of Leznevo . And, in fact, they promptly perpetrated the massacre against defenseless people. Among those shot were some members of thаt underground group: Sheiman [Sheinman], Goltz , Knaper and others.

"Shtetl" Volume 4, 2004 link

Trip to Khmelnitskiy area towns.
Lots of pictures. In Ukrainan, not translated.

Index to towns

Page 6. Foreword
Page 7. Chapter 1. Sutkovtsy, Sharovka, Mikhaylovka (Yarmolintsy raion).
Page 14. Chapter 2. Golozubintsy, Sokolets, Velikiy Zhvanchik (Dunaevtsy raion).
Page 23. Chapter 3. Gvardeyskoe (Felshtin), Khmelnitskiy raion; Kuzmin, Kupin (Gorodok raion); Kosogorka (Frampol'), (Yarmolintsy raion).
Page 32. Chapter 4. Okopy (Borsсhev raion, Ternopol' oblast'); Zhvanets, Orynin (Kamenets-Podol'skiy raion).
Page 41. Chapter 5. Gusyatin, Zarechanka (Lyanckorun'), Zbrizh (Chemerovtsy raion);
Gusyatin (Gusyatin raion, Ternopol' oblast').
Page 48. Chapter 6. Starokonstantinov; Annopol' (Slavutа raion); Sudilkov (Shepetovка raion).
Page 55. Chapter 7. Gritsev (Shepetovka raion); Novolabun' (Polonnoe raion); Polonnoe.
Page 63. Chapter 8. Novokonstantinov (Letichev raion); Staraya Sinyava; Staryj Ostropol' (Starokonstantinov raion).
Page 67. Chapter 9. Antoniny (Krasilov raion); Yampol' (Belogorka raion); Mezhirich (Ostrog raion, Rovno oblast'); Izyaslav.
Page 75. Chapter 10. Pavlikovtsy, Tarnoruda (Volochisk raion).