This website is hosted by the current community administration of Chornyi Ostriv, with news, government contacts, and a Historical Reference* which goes over the history of Chornyi Ostriv from ancient times up to 1917.
*the website and Historical Reference are in Ukrainian
This article showcases real correspondence between Kushnir's father, Wasyl Kushnir, and his grandpartents living in Chornyi Ostriv during the years of 1943-44 while experiencing the Holodomor, forced labor camps, and the Soviet regime.
The article is an excerpt from the book Epic Journey by Andrei Kushnir.
The Suit is a short autobiographical portrait by David Biespiel remembering his grandfather, a native of Chornyi Ostriv.
*this is a personal story. I wouldn't say it contains anything relevant about Chornyi Ostriv but interesting and fun to read.
The articles below are helpful in a general sense, but are not specific to Chornyi Ostriv.
If you are unfamiliar with the pogroms in Eastern Europe this article by John Klier provides a good general overview.
This paper by Jason H. Greenburg is helpful in understanding how and why many names changed during and after immigration.
This paper by Anatoliy Melnychuk and Oleksiy Gnatiuk details a case study of the Ternopil, Khmelnitsky, and Vinnytsia oblasts which looks into the territorial identity of its citizens.
I added this to the list because it illustrates that Polish, Galician, or Ukrainian- they were all Podilian at one time.