Skvira
Skver, Skvir, Skwere (Yiddish Transliteration), Сквира – Skvyra (Ukrainian), סקווירא (Yiddish)
Skvyra is a town in the Kiev Oblast (province) of central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Skvyrskyi Raion (district), and is currently a regional municipality.
In the end of XIX – beginning XX century, Skvyra was a center of uezd in Kiev gubernia.
Information about post-WWII Jews of Skvira was provided by the chairman of the community, Yefim Schwarzburd. He was born in 1948.
Some book with a description of the pre-revolutionary town was published in Israel by a native of Skvira. However, I couldn’t find the author’s name, nor the title, nor the book itself.
Skvira Hasidim now living in the United States have some memories and materials about Skvira of the XIX – XX centuries, but it is difficult to find their contacts 🙁
1775 – 116 Jews
1847 – 2,184 Jews
1897 – 8,910 (49.5%)
1926 – 4,681 (33.6%)
1939 – 2,243 Jews
1950 ~ 1,000 Jews
1960 ~ 500 Jews
2009 ~ 120 Jews
The ancient town of Skvyra was completely destroyed at the end of the XVI century. In 1736, Skvyra was mentioned as a village (selo) leased to a Jewish tenant. According to the census of 1765, there were 124 houses in Skvyra, 51 of which belonged to Jews. In 1775, 116 Jews lived in Skvyra, in 1784 this figure rose to 204, and in 1787, to 144.
In the early nineteenth century, the court of the Chernobyl Hasidic dynasty was in Skvyra. It was founded by Rabbi Yitzchak of Skvyra (1812-1885), one of the younger sons of Rabbi Motel Tversky (1770-1838). After his father’s death in 1838, he spent several years at the court of his elder brother in Chernobyl, and in early 1840 moved to Skvyra, where he founded a separate court. The Skvirsky court gathered thousands Hasidim for high holidays but Rabbi Yitzhak almost never left the town.
After the death of Rabbi Yitzhak his court was headed by his son Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heschel of Skvyra (1825-1886), then Abraham’s sun – Rabbi Moshe Dan of Skvyra (? – Kiev, 1920). The next Skvir Rabbi became his son Rabbi Yitzchak of Skvira (Skvira, 1886 – Tel Aviv, 1986). Other sons of Abraham Joshua Heschel held the Skvirskaja Hasidic courts in Ilintsy and Mahnovka.
Yitzchak Twersky Admur of Skvira, son of R. Mordechai Twersky Admur of Chernobyl.
Born: Chernobyl 5472-1812
Died and interred: Skvira, 17 Nissan 5645-1885
His 3 sons:
- Avraham Yehoshua Heschel Twersky Admur of Skvira
Born: Radvill, 5585-1825
Died and interred: Skvira, 3 Kislev 5647-1886 - Yisrael Twersky Admur of Skvira
Born: Skyvira
Died and interred: Skvira, 28 Elul 5658-1898 - David Twersky Admur of Skvira
Born: 14 Nissan 5608-1848.
Died and interred: Kiev, 15 Kislevy 5680-1919
Rabbi Isaac, the second son of Rabbi Ytzchak, had several sons, one of whom Rabbi Menachem Nachum of Shpikov (? – 1887) lived in Shpikove and Raschkow, the third son Rabbi David (? – 1920, Kiev) and his children lived in Kiev. In the 1920s, after the pogroms, many Skver Hasids left Skvyra. The Skver Hasidic dynasty has continued to exist and grow in number in the United States, notably in the New Square (anglicisation of New Skvir) township in Rockland County, New York.
After Skvyra was included in the Pale of Settlement, the town’s Jewish community increased. Its Jewish population was 2,184 in 1847 and grew to 8,910 in 1897 — 49.5% of the general population. At the end of the 19th century Skvyra had seven synagogues, a parochial school, a hospital, a pharmacist and a district doctor. Many Jews were engaged in grain and timber export. In the end of 19 century there were 7 Jewish prayer houses.
In the end of 19 century, r. Moyshezon was an official rabbi in Skvira.
In 1912 S. An-skiy visited Skvyra during his ethnographic expedition. According to his records, the Hasidic court of Skvyra had declined and lost his prior glory by the time of his visit.
By 1910 the town had a Talmud Torah, a Jewish private boys’ school and two private girls’ schools. In 1913 Yampolskiy Usher Genzelevich was the town’s rabbi.
Civil War pogroms
There were two pogroms in the town in 1917 and a wave of six pogroms in 1919, some of which lasted for several weeks. Rapes were committed, houses were burnt down, and Jewish property was seized and destroyed or sold to local peasants, with 191 people killed and hundreds injured.
1st pogrom: On 23 October 1917 local peasants pillaged Jewish shops (no casualties).
2nd pogrom: In February 1919 it was organised by the troops of Simon Petlura, fighting for Ukrainian independence (15 victims).
3d pogrom: Organised by the Red Army and casualty-free but many Jews left destitute
4th pogrom: Organised by the Ukrainian People’s Army troops, led by Yu. Tyutyunnyk and Zheleznyak and went on for 10 days. 56 Jews were murdered, among them the members of self-defence unit.
5th and 6th pogroms: In September 1919 organised by the Petlura troops, 55 Jews murdered.
7th pogrom: Went on during October and November 1919, organised by local thugs, killing 5 Jews.
8th pogrom: Was organised by the troops of the White (Anti-Bolshevik) Army, led by Denikin, 60 Jews were killed and 300 injured, many women raped. All Jewish shops were looted by local peasants.
Following the pogroms, an epidemic broke out, killing up to 30 people daily, most Jews decided to flee to Kiev, Odessa and Belaya Tserkov.
More detail information about pogroms in Skvira can be found in this document (Russian).
After Civil War
I find this report on JDC Archiv website, it gave wide description of Skvira Jewish community state in beginning of 1920’s:
AMERICAN JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE RUSSIAN UNIT. REPORT ON SKVIRA, BELOTZSRKOV UYESD, KIEV GUBRNIA
The $100 received from the Skvira landsmanschaft, as per LHD R-52, was distributed in the following order: – 120 poods of Matzo flour was purchased by the representative of the J. D. G. in consultation with, several representative citizens and distributed same among 79 needy families. – The balance of 1.500 million roubles (about $30) was given to the children homes for repair and purchase of inventory for their workrooms.
Skvira was formerly an Uyesd center, but the center has now been removed to Belaya Tzerkov. The number of the population before, the pogroms was 25,000 now 20,000. Jews before the pogroms 15,000 but now – 10,000. Number of shops before pogroms – 350. Fifty houses were sold to peasants by Jews who escaped from town at the time of pogroms.
Before the pogroms Skvira was quite a commercial and industrial center. It had 8 mills, 8 oil churns and 6 sugar factories in and near the town.
Skvira has suffered of 8 pogroms, the worst of which took place in autumn of 1919 by the Tutunik bands. The total of Jews killed in the pogroms is 608, wounded 392 and violated about 350. The entire population was robbed, pillaged and economically ruined.
AT PRESENT THERE ARE:
Jewish Widows 250 Orphans 256 Half-Orphans 350 Individuals who lost their working ability 130
Among the population there are also 80 refugee families from the following neighboring towns: Borchagovka (10 families), Kornin (5 families), Tetiev (10 families), Volodarka (10 families), Novo-Fastov and other places (45 families).
The population is chiefly engaged in small trade and small industry, yet the greater part of the artisans are unemployed and have to earn their scanty living in small trade. Owing to the removal of the Uyesd from Skvira, the number of unemployed, intellectual workers has increased considerably.
INSTITUTIONS IN SKVIRA : 1. Skvira has two Orphan’s Homes for 72 children (59 full orphans and 13 half orphans) 2. Public School for 140 children 3. House for aged with 19 inmates 4. Bath-House totally destroyed 5. Hospital 6. Dispensary 7. Clinical institute which is for use for members of trade unions only.
The Children Homes are supported by the Narobraz (Commissariat for Education) and subsidized, through the Evobkom, by the J. D. C. with food, clothing, shoes, fuel and cash for house repairs and additional equipment. The apartment of Children’s Home No. 2 is in very bad state and should be removed to other quarters but cannot be accomplished through lack of funds. The house where children home is located needs only small repairs. The Children Homes are poorly supplied with household inventory, underwear, clothing and shoes.
Stamp of the Committee of the help to pogrom victims in Skvira, 1921:
Between WWI and WWII
Under the Soviet Union the religious and communal life of the Jews of Skvyra was dissolved.
The town’s Jewish population fell to 4,681 by 1926 (about 33.6% of the population) and 2,243 by 1939, but even so it remained among the biggest Jewish communities of Ukraine at that time.
In 1941, local authorities evacuated the contents from a local archive but the cars transporting these documents were bombed by airplanes. Thus, the most valuable records on the history of Jews from Skvira was destroyed.
Due to the murder of 191 Jews during pogroms in 1919 as well as the emigration of the Jewish population, the Jewish population diminished to 2243 in 1939, making up only 20 percent of the local population.
Holocaust
A lot of Jews did not evacuate because they remembered the Germans during the Civil War and the order which they had brought.
The town was occupied by German forces on July 14, 1941. By that time, many Jews had managed to flee to the east, while the Jewish men were enrolled in the Army.
One month after the Germans’ arrival, a Jewish ghetto, fenced with barbed wire, was created. It was located on Taras Shevchenko Street. In mid-September 1941, the Jews were forced to wear yellow Stars of David and to perform different kind of forced labor, like cleaning the streets and working in the Kommandantur.
In 2 weeks after occupation were killed 10 communists, among them were Jews. Judenrat was created for contribution gathering and exact Jews count. After complete of this task all members of Judenrat were killed.
During August-September 1941 the Einsatzgruppen 5 headquarters was in Skvyra ( head is Standartenfuhrer SS Schultz). At the morning September 20, 1941 ( from another sources September 21, 1941) Jews were gathered near school on Bogachevskogo Street and shot in four pits in Jewish cemetery. . At that day were killed approximately 850 Jews.
Second “action” took place at October 17, 1941 – 170 Jews were killed near stable of Raipotrebsouz. Last mass killings took place at November 19, 1941 and December 20, 1941.
From another sources, the majority of local Jews were killed during the three day period from September 28,29,30, 1941. Both Germans and Ukrainians took part in shootings. Because of the lack of Germans local Ukrainians did more “dirty work”.
The majority of local Jews were killed during the three day period from September 28,29,30, 1941.
Ukrainian women Agata Melnichyk from village Berezyanka saved jewish girl Luba Volodarskaya (now living in Israel) who escaped from Skvira under unknown circumstances.
Skvira was liberated by Soviet Army at December 29, 1943. During Holocaust there were killed 1230 Jews.
According to the head of Skvyra’s Jewish community, there were mass shootings of Jews in the area of the market, the secondary school and in Bannaya Street.
In archiv of Illya Levitas (1931-2014) I found a story of Michail Bykov (1920-2000) and his family. They were gathered in the yard of school №2 together will all local Jews but escaped with help of friend from Ukrainian police. Michail became a member of partisan detachment and survived in Holocaust as his mother and sister.
About 1,300 Jews were killed in Skvira…
The bodies of those who had been killed were reburied at the Jewish cemetery in 1947. This was organized by local Jews Tetiyevsky, Kofman, Pekar, and Magazinnik.
Jewish houses had been occupied by non-Jews during the war and only a few of them were returned to the owners after the war.
After the WWII
After the war a lot of Jewish families returned to Skvira from the evacuation and front. Among them there were the Kagans, Pekers, Tulchinskys, Kofmans, Krivitskys, Yudkovichs, Feldmans, Koyrakh, Lutskys, Slutskers, Goldenbergs, Vildmans, Kats, Shvartsburd, Vaysburd, Fuhrer, Reydman, Ginevskys, Slobotskys, and many others.
Only Jewish families were living in Nizhnegradskaya street after the war.
Petr Shapiyevsky and Mikhail Siderman were the unofficial heads of the Jewish community in the 1950’s-1960’s.
1,000 Jews lived in Skvira in 1953. The 1,000th Jew was a Jewish girl who was born that year. Several families baked matza. Gamarnik and Kofman families were among them. Although Jews weren’t pursued by Skvira authorities, matza was delivered to the homes when it was already dark.
An unofficial minyan used to gather in different houses. The authorities didn’t pursue the Jews for that. Mohel whose surname is unknown and shoykhet whose last name was Slutsker (his son lives in Israel now) were in the shtetl. The latter died in 1967. After that there was no shoykhet in Skvira.
After the war the level of mixed marriages was very small. Shadkhanit came from Belaya Tserkov, Zhitomir, and Berdichev. .
The amount of mixed marriages started to increase rapidly since the 1970’s.
In the 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s there were five-six Jewish weddings per year. And in the 1990’s there were only two such wedding for 10 years.
Mass Jewish emigration from Skvira began in 1978-1979. Boris Lidkovich was the first to move to Israel together with his family.
About 100 Jews left Skvira for the USA in 1978-1979. Several hundreds of Jews went to Israel in the 1980’s.
Officially the Jewish community was registered in already independent Ukraine in the early 1990’s. Shika Pekar was its chairman until 1994. Then Yefim Schwarzburd took his place.In 2001, restoration began on the building of Duvidl Tverskoy’s synagogue. The work finished in July 2004. A mikva and a canteen were built in there. More than 1,000 people came to the opening ceremony from different countries around the world.
The Rabbi’s house was situated next to the synagogue but it wasn’t preserved. It has been restored from photos and now there is a hotel which can welcome 100 people
After the repair only the ceiling, the walls, and the front doors in the synagogue and rabbi’s house have been preserved in their original mid XX century condition. The building has been repaired and is now functioning. The work was funded by Skvira Jews living in the USA.
By 2014 tourists had been visiting the synagogue but since the Russian aggression began the level of tourism has decreased.
In the 2000’s, a Sunday school was functioning in the community. Nine students studied there. Later they all moved to Israel.
In 2009, a rabbi from Belaya Tserkov sent Benyamin Semeniuk to organize prayers, Shabbats, and Torah learning. It continued for four years until Benyamin left for Lugansk.
With the beginning of the Russian aggression Beyamin (Yuriy) Semeniuk fought on the side of illegal armed groups against the Ukrainian troops. His further fate is unknown.
In 2018, 35 Jews lived in Skvira. Those were mostly elderly people.
Leyb Surkis was the first Hassid who visited Skvira after WWII. In 1988, he arrived for the first time and at once met Yefim Shwarzburd in the street. The latter addressed him in Yiddish. Since then, the Hasidim from the United States who used to live in Skvira help the local Jewish community actively.
Until 1917, there were eight synagogues and 12 prayer houses in Skvira. At the moment, only the synagogue of Duvidl Tversky and one wall of the Great Choral Synagogue, which was destroyed during the war, have been preserved. Now this building is part of a factory.
Before the war the entire center of Skvira was occupied by Jews. However, except for a few houses, those buildings have not been preserved.
Famous Jews from Skvira
Ahad ha-Am (1856, Skvyra – 1927, Tel Aviv), writer and publicist (pen-name meaning “one of the people”; real name Asher Hirsh Gintsberg).
Yosef Shapiro (1902, Skvyra – 1978, Tel Aviv), Yiddish writer, the author of “Skvirer hurbn” (“Skvyra catastrophe”, 1924), “Vergangenheit” (“The Past”, short stories about the Jewish pogroms in Ukraine, 1925), “Moschichische Personlichkeiten” (“Messianic Personalities”, 1931).
David Lvovich Margulis (Skvyra, 1914 – 1993, St. Petersburg), Hero of the Soviet Union .
Restored synagogue
There were three Jewish cemeteries in Skvira:
Jewish cemetery in Sangorodetskaya street.
The cemetery was destroyed and then different houses and buildings were built on its place after WWII.
Old Jewish cemetery
It was situated on the bank of the river Skvirka not far from the center of the shtetl and covered 17 hectares. It was destroyed in the 1930’s and a brick factory was built on its place. We can assume that since 1917 this cemetery hasn’t been used.
The location of the grave of the founder of Skvira dynasty was determinated in the end of 1980’s due to maps of Skvirer Hasidim from USA. Ohel was established in 1989-1990.
A mikva was built near the ohel. However, local inhabitants used it as a place where they could drink alcohol so Jews themselves dismantled it.
Yefim Schwarzburd found several matsevas on the river bank and brought them to the ohel. However, the Ukrainians broke them. Matsevas from the destroyed cemetery can still be found in the locals’ yard.
Itskhok Tverskoy (1812-1895) and his sons who died of typhoid.
Their whereabouts were found with the help of the maps which had been kept by Hasidim in the USA. The maps showed trees which had been growing there for more than 80 years.
Thus, with this information the exact location of the graves was determined. Ohel was established in 1989-1990.
A mikva was built near the ohel. However, local inhabitants used it as a place where they could drink alcohol so Jews themselves dismantled it.
Yefim Schwarzburd found several matsevas on the river bank and brought them to the ohel. However, the Ukrainians broke them. Matsevas from the destroyed cemetery can still be found in the locals’ yard.
Photo of these gravestones were shot by Lo-Tishkah expedition in 2009-2010.
The cemetery site is located next to the River Skvyra, on a hill. The ohel is located at the foot of the hill, next to a water pipeline belonging to the neighbouring brickyard which owns the cemetery land. The site is also adjacent to private dwellings.
The cemetery site is undemarcated and (apart from the ohel) unmarked. It is not possible to ascertain its boundaries. It is not known whether the burial index for this cemetery is still in existence.
The cemetery site is located on the territory of the local brick factory. It is unmarked and undemarcated and there are no remaining gravestones at the site. Two gravestones can be found close to the site by the bank of the river and are at risk from vegetation and water damage and weather erosion.
They were previously used by local people and were bought back by the Chairman of the Skvyra Jewish community Yefim Davidovich Shvartsburd.
Inscription on the oldest gravestone:
פ איש נ
חשוב מ נחמיה
בר אפרים נפ ז
אלול תרנה תנ
צבה האמערע[ז]
(Trans. Here lies an important man, Mister Nehemiya, the son of Efraim. Died on 7 Elul 5655. May his soul be tied in the knot of life. Gomere [z]).
New Jewish cemetery
It started being used in the XIX century. All the tomb stones were stolen by local Ukrainians in 1941-1943. Now there is a large empty place covered with grass in the middle of the cemetery.
After the war Jews continued to bury their relatives here. In 1944, girl named Liusia was the first person to be buried there after the war. She came back from the evacuation together with her family and died of dysentery.
The cemetery is surrounded by a concrete wall, with a large iron gate at the entrance. The gate features a Star of David and two menorahs.
Date Of The Oldest Known Gravestone: 1880 – Khaya Feyga
Graves in the old part:
Graves in the new part:
Two old tombstones dating from 1880 and 1913 have been preserved in the old section (perhaps brought from the old cemetery).
Holocaust Mass graves:
In 1947, the remains of Holocaust victims from three different shootings in 1941 were reburied at the cemetery. There are lists with the names of people whose remains are in these mass graves but the lists are incomplete. In the early 2000’s, a monument was built on the largest mass grave.
List of the names:
Second Holocaust mass grave:
Genealogy
In 1941, local authorities evacuated the contents from a local archive but the cars transporting these documents were bombed by airplanes. Thus, the most valuable records on the history of Jews from Skvira was destroyed.
Geneologist Boris Finkelshtein (bob-fink
- Skvira revision tale by 1850 (Archiv of Kiev oblast, file 280/2/1012) -257 surnames
Third guild merchants: Baraban Belogorodskaya Weisberg Wooleys Gronshteyn Zaslavsky Zozovsky Kaplun Kardash Kotlyarskii Krasniy Kryvitsky Labunskiy Logvinsky Lodak Natenzon Olin Pereltsvayg Polyak Roytbarg Segal Sirota Strokov Trachtenberg Faibishenko Chariton Khinchin Cherniavsky Shapira Eidelman Yampolsky
Bourgeois: Avrutsky Akselrud Alberkant Balaban Bezfamilny Belilovsky Belokopyt Benditovich Berezovsky Berlyand Berner Bespechansky Blelfer Bloch Bobel Bogoslavskih Borshchahivskiy Bosin Bril Brodsky Brudnik Bryl Brysylovsky Bubar Bugai Burdinsky Burstein Bykov Bialik Weinstein Weisberg Vaysburd Vaks Vaser Wachmann Vilsky Vinokur Wolinsky Galant Galiotka Gamarnik Gimelshteyn Gitelmaher Glatshteyn Glaze Goyhtul Golden Goldman Gokhshtein Grinbarg Greenberg Groisman Gruz Gruzman Gudzenko Hutz Gupner Gurovich Gusak Gufan Dikhtyar Domen Domentovsky Donskoy Dubenskiy Ermulnik Erusalimsky Zhivotovsky Zhitman Zhuravitsky Zhuravlinsky Zarudinetsky Zeltsah Zilevits Zolotussky Kagan Kamenyatsky Kapler Katz Kaczynski Kvyat Keyzerman Kigel Kizhberg Kirgel Kitaevskiy Kleyzerman Kleiman Kozlowski Kolman Kolomeets Kolominsky Koltun Koretsky Kosy Kotlyar Krantz Krasniy Kreynin Krivitsky Kubernik Kupershtein Kuryanetsky Kushnir Labunskiy Laynburd Lev Lewenstein Lieberman Lipinets Litvak Luzhanska Lukatskii Lukashevsky Lustenberg Lutskiy Lvovskiy Lublinskiy Lyubomsky Magdalinskiy Mazur Makarovskiy Medvedovsky Merbarg Mizis Mirgorodsky Mlonchin Mysenznik Nemerovsky Novogradsky Novofastovsky Olin Order Orlik Pack Petrikovskiy Pinka Pogorily Pogrebysky Polyak Pasternak Prokobovsky Prus Pteyh Ptuh Pyatigorskiy Rabinovich Rayzburd Rahman Revich Rovinskii Royzenblyum Royzental Royzentul Romanovsky Rohlis Rudak Rudnik Ruzhynskiy Rumennik Ruyaninsky Salganik Sapozhnik Segal Siry Smuglyansky Snitsarenko Sobel Sobol Stulsky Suslik Taborovsky Taran Tarashchansky Tonkonogiy Toporovsky Torchinskiy Ulis Fager Faynburd Fastovsky Feldman Figa Finkovsky Frenkel Friedel Fur Hantsin Hasmenut Hasminuy Heylovsky Khinchin Khirman Hirhel Khmelnitsky Khodorkovsky Hurman Chervinskiy Chernobylskiy Chertok Chorny Chudnovsky Shapira Saffran Schwartz Shvartsbarg Shvartsburd Schwartzman Shvidky Shiber Shnaper Shpektor Spiegel Shraibman Shtekelbarg Shterin Shtof Shtulsky Shtut Shumsky Eidelman Ekshtut Elenkrant Yufed Yampolsky Janiszewski
- Skvira revision tale by 1858 (Archiv of Kiev oblast, files 280/2/1490,1491) – 230 surnames
Abramovich Akslirud Alberpont Amboym Balaban Bareschevsky Begelfer Bezfamilny Benditovich Berezovsky Berlend Berner Bespechansky Bililovsky Bloch Boben Boguslavskiy Borshchahovskiy Bosin Brodsky Brudnik Brusilovsky Bryl Bubar Buzhai Burdyansky Burstein Bykov Bialik Vayzberg Weinstein Vaks Vaser Vatnik Vachmann Veksler Vilsky Vinokyr Woks Wolinsky Wolff Galant Gamarnik Gimelshteyn Gitelmaher Gladshtein Glas Goyhtut Goldenvaser Goldman Goldrah Golodka Goldenberg Golfand Goreskiy Gokhshtein Grinbarg Groisman Gruzman Gudzenko Gysak Dekhtyar Dolin Domskiy Dubenskiy Duvidovich Erusalimsky Zhivotovsky Zhitman Zhuravitsky Zak Zeltseh Zilovets Zolotusky Kagan Kamyanetsky Kapler Kaplun Katz Kvyat Keyzerman Kinzbarg Kitaevskaya Kichinsky Kleiman Kleinman Kobernik Kozlowski Kolomiets Koltun Colman Kosiy Kotlyar Krant Krantz Krasnoselskiy Krasniy Kreynin Krivitsky Kuryanets Kuryanitsky Kushnir Labunskiy Lev Lowenstein Lieberman Lipinets Litvak Loytburd Lomish Luzhanskiy Lukatskii Lukashevsky Lustenberg Lutskiy Lublinskiy Lyubomsky Magdalinskiy Mazur Makarovskiy Medvedovsky Mesberg Meshbarg Mizis Mirgorodsky Mlonchin Mosezhnik Nemerovsky Novogradsky Nofohvastovsky Ovrutsky Olen Order Orlik Pack Petrinovsky Pinka Pinkovsky Ploschinsky Pogorelyi Pogrebysky Polyak Pasternak Prus Ptah Ptukh Pyatigorsk Rabinovich Rayzburd Revich Royzembman Royzenblyum Royzentol Royzentul Romanovsky Romantovsky Rohlis Rohman Rudak Rudnik Ruzhynskiy Rumennik Siderman Siry Smol Smulchisky Sobol Solganik Spector Spitsarenko Stulsky Sumskiy Suslik Taborovsky Taran Tarashchansky Tonkonogiy Toporovsky Torchinskiy Ulis Faer Faibishenko Faynburd Fastovsky Feldman Figa Flick Freydel Frenkel Friedman Furmandsky Chariton Hasshinuy Herman Khinchin Khirman Hirshan Hitovsky Khmelnitsky Khodorkovsky Horiton Chervinskiy Chernobylskiy Cherniy Chisnik Chortok Chudnovsky Shapira Saffran Schwartz Shvartsburd Schwartzman Shvidky Sheyngayt Shenglayd Shiber Shnaper Shraibman Shteren Shtivelmaher Shtikselberg Shtof Shtut Eidelman Ekshpun Elinkrach Yufid Yampolsky Janiszewski Yarmulnik
- Skvira census by 1897 (Archiv of Kiev oblast, files 384/10/all) – more than 1100 surnames
File 2: Berlyand Bernstein Bubar Bystritskii Vaks Vaser Goldfain Gulkin Dah Dubinsky Kagan Kesner Kimbarg Koltyansky Komorowski Kotlyar Lev Lembergsky Leszczynski Mirshtat Moroz Nerubay Oberfeld Pliskovsky Polyak Rapoport Royzentul Rubalsky Starik Tartakovsky Fainburg Frenkel Henven Tsalenko Chervinskiy Cernik Chernyansky Shapira Spiegel Spiegelman
All names here
File 3: Bliznyuk Vaisburd Weinstein Weinstock Vakser Wisniewski Herman Gershenovsky Goldman Gohbarg Granovsky Kamenker Kisilevskii Klotsman Koretsky Kosov Krasniy Lev Neiman Ortenberg Ostrovsky Pavolotsky Pekelis Pogrebysky Polyak Pasternak Rabinovich Reizin Rudyak Sandlerman Sverdlik Solitra Sosnowski Trigub Feld Feldman Fishman Khinchin Tsisin Chernobylskiy Shtekelberg Shulimok Eidelman Yagnyatinskii
File 4: Barskiy Bilov Brener Bialik Volodarsky Vylis Gertsenshtein Gekhtman Goldich Goldfarb Hochman Granovsky Gulkin Diner Drogobytsky Dulitsky Zaharin Zolotusky Kamenetskii Katz Kovelman Koltun Krol Lerner Mazoray Matsekh Muchnik Novogradsky Ostrovsky Perelmutor Petlyuk Pikovskaya Rabinovich Rokah Friedel Fuchs Henven Khodorkovsky Chemirovsky Cherniy Chudnovsky Shapira Shklovsky Shmuskis Spiegelman Steinbarg Yampolsky File 5 Beylysh Bendetovich Bialik Vekslyarsky Vinokur Vishnepolsky Singer Kenis Korelman Kotlyarskii Leiner Luzhanska Milman Pogrebysky Pyatigorskiy Resnik Samgorodetsky Slobodyanskii Tonkonogiy Fainerman Hazinsky Shentsvid Schindler Spiegel
File 6: Gunzburg Gorodetsky Zenkovsky Krasniy Kuzynka Lieber Litvak Magit Nudel Pilipovsky Pogrebysky Rohtman Talalaivskiy Feldman Tsysin Chuhtman Spiegel Yampolsky
File 7: Altman Bellov Gimelfarb Goldenvasser Noskin Cherepinski Chubynsky File 8 Volotsky Heschel Goldveht Zozovsky Klubok Lev Lipskis Polyak Rabinovich Rosenblum Shapira
File 9: Byk Heschel Gorbatiy Grushko Dubovis Zheleznyak Zak Zozovsky Korostyshevsky Krakovskiy Krentsel Krieger Kutseno Lembergsky Lipelis Magid Maza Miropolsky Moldovan Pavolotsky Pikovsky Podolsky Polyak Portnoi Reybarg Raider Roydbak Roffman Sykulya Tsarovsky Shapira Safran Spiegel
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Дорогие друзья, моя фамилия Сквирская. Мои предки из тех краев. Наконец-то я узнала происхождение фамилии. Спасибо вам большое!
Hi, nice, do you have more info about your ancestors who lived there?
Большое спасибо всем тем кто создал етот сайт.
Моего пра-прадеда Пинхаса Ходорковского убили во время
одного из погромов бандиты Тютюника. К сожалению он не смог выехать в Харбин а оттуда в Америку.
Не судьба значит. Его внучка Буся Ходорковская (90 лет) и его внук Петр (85 лет)
живут сейчас в Америке осуществив мечту деда.
Несмотря на все муки, жертвы и погромы евреи родившиеся на Украине помнят не
только зло причиненное им , но и многих хороших людей, которые им помогали.
Спасибо что помяанули двоюродного маминого брата Давида Маргулиса, Героя Советского
Союза , кавалера ордена Александра Невского командира артиллерийской бригады.
После воины он получил 10 лет лагереи. Донес на него друг по Академии Фрунзе и посадили его за анекдот. Похоронен Давид в Ленинграде.
К сожалению вы не упомянули факты благотворительности еврейских буржуев, так мои пра-прадед был упомянут в книге краеведа о Сквире как благотворитель и почетный гражданин города. Я думаю он был не один такой.
Шалом!
А о какой книге речь?
Как называеться? У Вас есть возможность ее выслать на shtetl.history@gmail.com
Ян, здравствуйте!
Моего дедушку звали Шая Ходорковский, его отца Шам или Шаммай. Вы случайно не знаете были ли у Вашего пра-деда братья? Я разыскиваю Ходорковских по Сквирской губернии? Спасибо, Александра.
Уважаемый Ян, меня тоже очень интересует упомянутая Вами книга. Можно ли узнать точное название и год издания, или копию? С наилучшими пожеланиями, Катя
Катя, здравствуйте! Как можно с Вами связаться? Я бы хотела узнать про Вашу семью Ходорковских? Может они были родственниками?
Я живу в Америке, можем делать переписку по электронной почте. Заранее благодарю, Александра.
I would like to know more about Khaya Feyga, the person whose name is on the oldest known tombstone in the New Jewish Cemetery. My maternal grandmother was Anna Fega Rabinowitz, who was born in Skvira in 1891.
steven H. Hirsch
Stevenh_hirsch@yahoo.com
I am looking to find my Grandfather David Solomonovich Gudzenko born in skvira in1884 or later
I am searching for records on my Dekhtyar (dekhtyar) family…a ram Abraham, his son (my father) was Vasily. he had a daughter named Katerina, but Vasily ended up in German Pow camps during Ww 2. A ram was sent to Siberia. I am unable to find any documents that registered my dad Vasily’s birth in the Ukraine. Olga dekhtyar
Добрый день,Ольга! А где родился Ваш отец?В метрических книгах евреев м.Сквиры есть Аврум Дехтярь 1846 г.рождения.
На північно-західній околиці Сквири, високо на горі нині розміщений мікрорайон, який у минулому називався Діхтярня (Свинорея). Як же виникла ця назва?
У XIY-XVII століттях майже до самого міста підступав Єрчиківський ліс. Під час нападів загарбників люди знаходили в ньому притулок.. У мирний час ліс давав багато матеріалу для місцевих жителів (дрова, будівельний матеріал, ягоди тощо). Окремі жителі спеціалізувалися на виробництві дьогтю і мастила.
Дьоготь добували із сосни чи берези. Звичайно, що ці ремісники і селилися біля лісу. їх називали «діхтярами», а їхні нащадки отримали прізвища “Діхтяр , Діхтяренко”. Звідси і назва цього кутка. Проходив час, ліс все більше вирубували. Це призвело до занепаду діхтярного ремесла. Тому у кінці XVII століття місцеві жителі почали займатися розведенням свиней на продаж. Свині рили вулиці кутка, внаслідок цього і виник звичний топонім «Свинорея».
Мой дедушка Цаль Шварцбурд потерял во время войны свою семью, жену и двоих детей. К сожалению мы даже не знаем их имён. Сам он как раз воевал, а фашисты их в 41 расстреляли в Сквире. Я дедушку узнал на фото со швейными машинками в середине. Мой папа сын из второй семьи, которую дедушка завёл после войны. Может кто то знал его, или эту семью в Сквире?
У нас был в семье Цаль Шварцбург, чья жена и две дочери погибли в 1941 в Сквире.
Это скорее всего мой дедушка, если я правильно понял своего папу, то у него была дочь и сын. Мы живём в Германии, а вы откуда? И кем приходится вам мой дедушка, если не секрет? Я бы очень хотел узнать больше о его первой семье и о своих родственниках. Дима
Дмитрий, только сейчас вижу Ваше сообщение. Как нам связаться?