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Berdychiv (Ukrainian: Бердичів, IPA: [berˈdɪt͡ʃ⁽ʲ⁾iu̯] ⓘ) is a historic city in Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Berdychiv Raion within the oblast.
Berdychiv, city, northwestern Ukraine. Founded in 1482 as a Lithuanian fortress, Berdychiv was Polish from 1569 until 1793. The 16th-century fortress walls survive, as does the Roman Catholic church in which the French novelist Honoré de Balzac married Eveline Hanska, a wealthy Polish widow, in.
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- How It All Began
- Holocaust
- After The WWII
- Old Jewish Cemetery with Ohel of Rabbi Levi Yitzchok
- Choral Synagogue
- Zagrebalnaya Synagogue
- Central Synagogue
- Synagogue Habad
- Central Park with Grave of Rabbi Liber
- Ghetto During A War
Jews were first mentioned in Berdichev in 1593. Towards the mid-eighteenth century, the city became one of the main Jewish centers of Ukraine, earning the esteemed title “Jerusalem of Volhynia.” From 1785, Berdichev was home to Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev, a prominent Hassidic leader, as well as Rabbi Yitzhak Ber Levinzon, a famous advocate of ...
On July 7, 1941, the Germans occupied Berdichev. About one third of the city’s Jewish population, including refugees from Poland who had arrived there during the first month of World War II, managed to evacuate or escape. The first days of the occupation witnessed wanton Jewish murders perpetrated by German soldiers. By August 22, 1941, a ghetto wa...
After the liberation of Berdichev, some Jews began to return from the evacuation and the synagogues were re-opened by Yakov Gorb in August 1944 (Lenina str, 40 and Marks str., 3). One report states that there were about 6,000 Jews in Berdichev after the war (March 1946). Although Matzah baking was prohibited in the early 1960’s, it was resumed afte...
The cemetery situated along Lenina street , directly behind the railway (see map in the beginning). It was established in the middle of 18th century but it wasn’t the first cemetery in Berdichev. The cemetery has not been used since 1973 and most of it now looks abandoned. Mittler Rebbe’s daughter was married to Levi Itzhak’s grandson, and her grav...
Synagogue was built in 1850. It is a two-story brick building. It was one of the first Choral Synagogues in the Russian Empire. In 1924 there were 230 members in synagogue’s community but it was closed in 1929. In pre-war years the building housed the local atheists’ club. After the war only the walls remained standing but the Jews were allowed to ...
Built in 1890 by a rich merchant called Magazinnikov. There are still his initials and date of building on the facade. In 1924 there were 200 members in synagogue’s community. It was closed in 1930th. After the war it became a cinema and an archive. Nowadays the building of a former synagogue on Zagrebelna houses a library. Address : Voikova str., ...
Now it is one of two working synagogues and a Jewish community center. It was never closed even during the Soviet period and shut only during Nazi occupation. After the WWII it was re-opened at the end of 1945 and was the third synagogue in Berdichev at that time. This slideshow requires JavaScript. According to the memories of Berdichev Jews, in t...
Address : Chornovola str., 3 Phone: (04143) 2-02-35 E-mail: rabbi@berditchev.org Head of Berdichev Habad: Moishe Taller
The Old Jewish cemetery with graves dating back to the 18 century was destroyed in 1920s. It is now a city park. Rabbi Eliezer Liber “Great” was a religious head of Berdichev Jewish community in the middle of 18th century. He died during an epidemic in 1771. His grave stone was destroyed too the actual burial mound remained. Later a new gravestone ...
By August 22, 1941, a ghetto had been established in Berdichev, in the Yatki area (between the river and the market) – it was the older Jewish part of the city. Mass executions started two weeks later. A memorial to the Holocaust victims was opened on November 17, 1999. The idea behind the memorial belongs to Savely Y. Vekselshteyn – the head of th...
BERDICHEV, town in the historic region of Volhynia, now in Zhitomir district, Ukraine. Apart from two single references to individual Jews from Berdichev in 1593 and 1602, there is no evidence that a Jewish community existed in Berdichev before 1721.
Berdychiv's population grew in response to commercial and industrial development (2,000 in 1789, 19,000 in 1838, and 51,500 in 1860), and it became Ukraine's fourth largest city after Odesa, Kyiv, and Lviv (but before Kharkiv).
Founded in 1546, the illustrious city of Berdichev (which was Polish until 1793) is towered over by the dome of the large Baroque church here, a former Carmelite cloister dating from 1627. Jews began settling in Berdichev in the seventeenth century, drawn by the fairs regularly held here.
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BERDICHEV, town in the historic region of Volhynia, now in Zhitomir district, Ukraine. Apart from two single references to individual Jews from Berdichev in 1593 and 1602, there is no evidence that a Jewish community existed in Berdichev before 1721.
