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This site is
dedicated to the memory of the Gitner family and all
the other Jewish families who considered Litin their
home.
Other Spellings: Lityn (there maybe also
another town by this spelling)
- Possible variations in spelling using the soundex
of the Ellis Island Database
Where is LITIN ? Latitude 49 19 N, Longitude
28 4 E , Altitude 836 feet (254 meters)
If you draw a line from Medzhibozh,
through Letichev to Vinnitsa (Vinnica), the line
will go through Litin.
Near-by towns & cities: Vinnista - Vinnitsa
Region Jewish Community Chmelnik
"Not to know what happened before
we were born is to remain perpetually a child. For
what is the worth of a human life unless it is
woven into the life of our ancestors by the
records of history?" --- Marcus Tullius Cicero,
106-43 B.C.
Background Information
Documents
In every generation each person
must regard himself as if he himself had come out
of Egypt, as it is said: "And thou shalt relate it
to thy son on that day, saying, this is done on
account of that which the Lord did unto me, when I
came forth out of Egypt."(Exodus 13:8, Passover
Hagadah)
- Necrology
of Litin from Yad Vashem Testimonies and other
sources
If there are names that look like
they are listed twice, that is because there are
may be two testimonies in the Yad Vashem Database,
given by different people.
- Bits
& Pieces of Information from the Ukraine
Database
- Families
found in the Montifiore Census of 1875 in Eretz
Israel
- Families
that Immigrated to America
- Families
that Immigrated to Eretz Israel
- Holocaust
Memorial Name List Catalog - Links to
documents available through the Yad Vashem's
"Shoah-Related Lists Database". The link is to the
search engine, where you type LITIN in the the
field labeled place. The documents are in
Russian/Ukrainian.
- List of Jews from Litin and its
surroudings, Vinnitsa, U.S.S.R., who either
perished in the Holocaust or fell at the Front
during their Red Army service
- A list of Jews from Litin who
were murdered in the years of 1941-1943
- A list of people from Litin
who perished in the years of 1941-1943
- List of Jews from Litin,
Vinnitsa district, who were shot dead in 1941
- List of Jewish soldiers who
fell from Litin, Vinnitsa district, U.S.S.R.,
during their Red Army service
- Important
Chassidim, 1865 (List of Volhynian Tsadikim,
1861 and 1865)
From the Denunciation on Tsadikim and their Bad
Influence, 1861 and 1865
- Kishinev - People with
connections to Litin in the Kishinev Vital
Records Database
- Litin-Podolier
Plot at MT. Hebron Cemetery NY
- Ohel Shem -
Source of materials on Rabbis of Litin
- Rabbis of
Litin
- Income Taxes
for Podolia - 1883 - "Box Taxes and Candle
Taxes"
- Testimonies
of Ghetto Lityn
- Selected
Records of the Soviet State Extraordinary
Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes on the
Territory of the Soviet Union
-
Subscribers from Litin for the publication of
Har Bessamim 1897
Memoirs, Family Stories & Pictures
Some of the stories are PDF files, in
order to read the stories you will need the Arcobat
Reader which you can download free from the
following site.
Books & Articles - Bibliography
- Arad, Yitzhak, Plunder of
Jewish Property in the Nazi-Occupied Areas of
the Soviet Union. Yad Vashem Studies,
vol 29
- Chapin, David A. & Weinstock,
Ben (2000) The Road from Letichev.
Lincoln, Universe Com. Inc.
Does not mention Litin but tells about Podolyia,
the area of the Ukraine where Litin is found. Good
for getting a feeling of the life style.
-
Heifetz, Elias, J.U.D.,
(1921) The
Slaughter of the Jews in the Ukraine 1919.
New York, NY, Thomas Seltzer - contains
testimonies of witnesses.
- Hoffman, David B. & Gircyte,
Vitalija, (2001) Collection of Box Taxes in
19th-Century Lithuania. AVOTAYNU XVII
No.3
- Luckin, B., Sokolova, A., &
Khaimovich, B., (2000) One Hundred Shtetls
of Uraine: Jewish Communities of Podolia
(russian) Vol. 2, St. Petersburg
704 pages, 380 illustrations,
50 maps. The second volume is devoted to the
shtetls of Southern Podolia. It contains three
large introductory articles, 15 articles of
important Jewish center of the area and historical
information about 16 smaller places (see table of
contents). Contains pictures of furniture and
artifacts from Jewish homes.
- Mandel, Moshe, (1984) Tales of Lytin
(Stories are in hebrew, the Table of Contents is
listed here in english.)
- The Encyclopedia of Jewish
Life Before and During the Holocaust
Archives
Additional Sites of Information
Searchable Databases
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