Byshov
Byshov is a historic town located in Makarov district of Kiev region. Byshovis located on the Lupa River, a tributary of the Irpen. The town’s estimated population is 2,773 (as of 2001).
Byshov became a part of Russia Empire in 1793, in XIX – beginning of XX century it was shtetl of Kiev Yezd of Kiev Gubernia.
The earliest source of data on the Byshiv Jewish community states that there were 142 Jews in the village in 1765. Population numbers peaked in 1864 at 780, and dropped to 597 by 1897 (17% of total population).
List of Byshev’s Jews from 1850 can be found here (in Russian).
According to the Brockhaus-Efron Encyclopaedia, in the archives of the town owners in Pashkotz, a document has been preserved in which an Itsko Ozerovich proclaims his free will to swear loyalty in the synagogue.
In 1768, the Jews of Byshiv were victims of the Haidamak pogroms. In 1900 there was one synagogue in Byshev.
In 1900, 1551 Jews (7% of the total population) lived in the Byshevskaya volost (district). Most of them lived in Byshev.
I haven’t find much info about Byshev Jewish community and this article will consist of some photos only 🙁
We know the names of 2 local Jews who were killed by Germans and members of local police:
-Tatyana Yakovlevna Konopatskaya (journalist)
– Jewish men with nickname Vilchek (tailor). His last words were: “Forgive me for all, I do nothing bad for you”
After the war few Jews returned in Byshov:
– Fanya Moiseevna Kerzhner (she was a Head of Education department)
– Morgulis (he survived during the Holocaust and repatriated to Israel)
– systers Fanya and Katya Geiman (their older sister Roza lived in Leningrad)
Systers Geiman died in 1970’s-1980’s. They were last Jews of Byshev….