PARTIAL LIST OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS (Created in 1999. Source: Miriam Weiner Roots to Roots Foundation)
List of Holocaust victims from Belogorodka compiled by an elder Jewish resident from Belogorodka (living in Izyaslav as of 1999). The purpose for the creation of the list was its inclusion in the series of “Memory Books” and the Book of Sorrow published by the government of Ukraine.
YAD VASHEM CENTRAL DATABASE OF OF SHOAH VICTIMS' NAMES FROM BELOGORODKA (Pages of Testimony)
Testimonies from and about people who were born in, resided in, were evacuated from, immigrated from and/or were murdered in and near Belogorodka (Zaslav).
BELOGORODKA SURNAMES FROM PAGES OF TESTIMONY: Alperin, Balder/Bleder, Baran, Barengoltz, Bernshtein, Bider/Boider, Bilitch, Bodner, Breen (Brin), Buder, Dehtjar, Dlugach, Drogomirov, Elbert, Erlikh (Erlich), Failer, Faygon (Feigon), Fishman, Fuks (Fox), Gelman, German, Gladshtein/Gladsteyn, Groiser, Grinfield, Kalmanovich, Kaplan, Karbanchinskaya, Katz, Keyser, Khinkis, Kleinerman, Krimer, Kuperman, Lapushina, Lapushnik, Lisyanski, Rabinovich, Raich/Raik/Reikh (Rich), Rapaport, Ribinik, Rotenberg/Rutenberg, Roytman (Rudman/Rodman), Shekter, Shnaider (Schneider), Shpigel, Shpilko, Shvartzapel, Talisman/Talithman, Tener, Todris, Trostyanetski, Tzitrin(a) (Cytron), Vaysbuch (Weitzbuch, Whitebook), Vodonos, Weinerman, Yavitz, Zeifmakher, Zinger (Singer) (as of 29/7/2025)
HOLOCAUST SITES:
1. Soshne Forest (20km NE of Bilohorodka; 7km W of Izyaslav):
Jews from Izyaslav and the surrounding towns like Belogorodka were murdered here in June 1942 and January 1943.
dates: 27 June 1942, 9 September 1942, 1 January 1943
location: 50.1238687,26.7489114 (Source: Google Maps)
number of victims: ~ 2000 (Source: Shoah Atlas)
memorials: 1975 and 2018 (Photos: Tsal Kaplun Foundation)
A list of some victims' names (from the book Незагоэна рана, Unhealthy Wound by David Goshkis)
Soshne killing site photo album (Source: Tsal Kaplun Foundation)
Witness testimony by Sofia Finkel, born in 1927(Source: Tsal Kaplun Foundation)
Testimony: Shif Leonid (Source: Testimonies and Documents, Boris Zabarko, 2013/2014. p. 470)
Testimony: Siunia Deresh (Source:«Черная книга». Иерусалим. 1980. EBook 2014. p. 126)
2. Poboy Anti-tank trenches in Izyaslav
location (50.1104556, 26.8587006, Google Map)
Date of event: 30 August 1941
Number of victims: ~ 1000 (Source: Shoah Atlas)
Monuments: 1949 and 2019 (Source: Shoah Atlas)
PERIOD OF NAZI OCCUPATION (Izyslav region): July 5, 1941 - March 6, 1944
DOCUMENTARY: Soshne Forest Massacre: https://www.tkfgen.net/soshne_forest_massacre.html
2,000 Jewish victims were killed in the Soshne forest north of Belogorodka during the Holocaust in 1942.
DOCUMENTARY: The Last Chapter
A film about the history of the Izyaslav Jewish community and the destruction of Jewish life in the town including survivor testimony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SBwfLKaQvQ (English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghg7g0OxxdA (Russian)
TESTIMONIAL: Holocaust by Bullets interviews with witnesses of the Izyaslav massacre, which included people from Belogorodka (request access to the full videos):
https://www.yahadmap.org/#village/izyaslav-khmelnytskyi-ukraine.102 (Source: Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-in Unum
BOOK OF SORROW: https://shoahatlas.org/sorrow.html
BOOK: Vavrynchuk Mykola, Zavalniuk Oleksandr, Slobodianiuk Petro. Nazi occupation regime in Khmelnytskyi region 1941-1944. Documents and materials. 2009. (Ukrainian and Russian)
BOOK: Kruglov, Alexander. The extermination of Jewish population of Ukraine in 1941-1944. 1997 (Russian)