The Felshtin Pogrom
The Slaughter of Jews in the Ukraine in 1919 By Elias Heifetz The following is an excerpt of a report by Elias Heifetz, Chairman, All Ukrainian Relief Committee … Continue reading The Felshtin Pogrom →
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Bloody Bacchanalia: The Pogroms of Proskurov and Felshtin
By Michael Nevins, M.D. There were few contemporary eyewitness accounts of the Ukrainian pogroms during the Russian Civil War.
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Henry Torrès, Defender of Jewish Assassins
by Michael Nevins, M.D. I first heard the name Henry Torrès when I was doing background reading to put the Felshtin pogrom into some historical context. In Prof. … Continue reading Henry Torrès, Defender of Jewish Assassins →
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Baron Hirsch Cemetery Update
The Baron Hirsch Cemetery requires that someone be present at the gravesites at least once a year in order to observe the condition. They are also requiring that we pay annual liability insurance […]
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Felshtin Who’s Who
The following compilation is based on a dozen or so sources, including the Felshtin yizkor book, the 1834 and 1875 Felshtin censuses, a 1907 voter list and business directories from … Continue reading Felshtin Who’s Who →
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Felshtin Bibliography
Resources on the Yizkor (Memorial) Book, other books, articles, and reports mentioning Felshtin, writing by or about Felshtiners, resources on nearby communities, Jewish Ukraine (historical),
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Historical Documents (Felshtin Archive)
Special thanks to Dr. Mel Werbach, Alan Bernstein, other members of the Felshtin Society for helping to coordinate and fund some of this research, translator Sora Ludmir and … Continue reading Historical Documents (Felshtin Archive) →
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Yizkor Book
Yizkor books were written after the Holocaust as memorials to Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust. They were usually put together by survivors from those communities and contain descriptions and histories of the community,
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Felshtin History
A collection of essays and articles written by and about Felshtiners, covering the history of Felshtin and the surrounding area, and including personal recollections of life in Felshtin before, during, and after the Pogrom.
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About Felshtin
Felshtin (pronounced fel-SHTEEN), was a small, rural Ukrainian town that contained a Jewish community, or shtetl. Felshtin was located 78 miles north-northeast of Chernovtsy and 186 miles west-southwest of Kiev, famous for its wooden synagogue.
During a brutal pogrom on February 18, 1919, an estimated 600 Jewish Felshtiners were massacred—about a third of the total Jewish population. On Yom Kippur, 1941, Nazis exterminated most of Felshtin’s surviving Jewish population. Today the town is known as “Hvardiyske.” A few Felshtiners absent from the town during the holocaust returned after the war.
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