Volochisk,
Ukraine
Volotchisk , Wolochisk , Woloczysk
Lat: 49° 32' , Long: 26° 10'
Table of Contents
- General
Description
- Maps
& Location
- Pictures
- Links
to Volochisk
- Background
Information
- Connect
with other Volochisk Researchers
- Nearby
Towns Currently Being Researched
- Other
Sites of Interest
General Description
Volochisk
is a small town in the Western Ukraine located on the left bank of the Zbruch River. According to its description in the IAJGS
Jewish Cemetery Project, it is 203.6 miles WSW of Kiev, about 18 km from
Skalat and about 50 km from the county seat, Tarnopol. Volochysk is a district
center in Khmelnytsky region. The town population is
24,000 with 8 Jews in 2000. It
is noted for having a train station which was the starting point of many of our
ancestors on their long journey to America.
Across the river is a sister town, Podvolochisk. Before WW1 the river served as a border separating Volochisk and Podvolochisk nationally as well as geographically. Volochisk was in Russia, and Podvolochisk in Austria. Again, according to the IAJGS, the 1939 Podwolocyska population was 7,000 including the town of Zdanishovka of which 20% were Poles, 20% Ukrainians, and 60% Jewish (about 4,200.)
Maps & Location
Volochisk is located in what is now the northwest Ukraineat 49° 32' by
26° 10' in the Volhynia province. It is located
east of Ternopol and Southwest of Kiev.
Voloczysk and Podvoloczysk are located at the very bottom of
Volhynia province. One can make out the train line,
which partially obscures the nameVolochisk. This map is from Blackie and Sons
Atlas (Edinburgh, 1982).
You will need to zoom in to see Volochisk.
Includes a topological map plus photographs from Volochisk and a list of hotels.
This town map provides residents' names and shows their house locations
table of contentsPictures
Photos were taken by Jeremy Grant, a Volochisk descendant and
this websites primary translator.
Photos by Bobby Furst, a Volochisk
descendant
A gift of Yeva
Lozdernik, names of students included.....maybe you
will find a relative!!
Photos taken by Sharon Zane,
a Volochisk Descendant
Photos taken by Sharon Zane
Links To Volochisk
Translation
of a Yiddish document written by Samuel Trugman describing life in Volochisk
for a contest in the newspaper, “The Tog”
Bernard
Wolf left Volochisk in the early part of the twentieth century. Read about how
he escaped.
Translation
of a Russian letter written by Yeva Lozdernik describing a wedding in Volochisk
Jeremy
Grant writes to Helen May about his trip, fall of 2000. At the end is a list of
legible stones in the cemetery of Volochisk that Jeremy was kind enough to
record.