Stories, Articles, Personal Accounts, and Narratives
VODONOS (SALTSMAN) Family
A seven-part series and epilogue telling the immigration story of the Vodonos family by Sharon Bernstein for the LA Times.
Note: The article doesn't quite identify the town correctly geographically. The Vodonos family is from Belogorodka near Zaslav located in the Volhynia province.
Finding Steerage to America. LA Times. Dec. 22, 1996
Putting Down American Roots. LA Times. Dec. 23, 1996
Disconnected by a Revolution. LA Times. Dec. 24, 1996
Brothers in Parallel Combat. LA Times. Dec. 25, 1996
Outliving the Soviet Union. LA Times. Dec. 26, 1996
From Russia, With Hope. LA Times. Dec. 27, 1996
The Solemn Joy of a Hundred Years. LA Times. Dec. 28, 1996
Marking Passover Without Joseph. LA Times. Apr. 13, 1998
GOLDFARB Family History (Chapter Four)
There are several valuable accounts of Belogorodka included in this document (which has been Google translated from Russian with varying success). It is a very long page that takes a while to fully load. You may have to search for "Belogorodka" to find them.
Belogorodka Group Census
Coming soon: We are compiling a list of every Jewish person we can document as born or residing in Belogorodka.
Landsmanshaftn and Burial Societies
We have documentation and oral testimony of Landsmen Groups and Benevolent and Burial Societies in these cities. We'll be sharing our findings soon and are very interested in gathering more documentation on these and other groups (contact: belogorodkaresearch@gmail.com).
St. Louis
Quad Cities (Rock Island, in particular)
Chicago
Coming soon:
Obituaries mentioning Belogorodka
Wedding announcements
Newspaper articles
List of US ship manifests with Belogorodka listed as birthplace, place of residence, location of a relative, etc.
List of WWI and WWII US draft cards with Belogorodka listed as birthplace.
Descendant Stories:
Julie Feigon: "A (Scientific) Lifetime Affair With Nucleic Acids" in the Journal of Molecular Biology, Volume 437, Issue 11, 1 June 2025. She discusses her FEIGON grandfather from Belogorodka, her father's invention of the innovative Py-O-My Blueberry Muffin Mix and her personal trajectory into science and research.