Embedded Files
My Shtetl - Jewish Settlements in Ukraine - Jewish Ethnographic Museum - created by Evgeny Schneider and Leonid Tsirulnik
Centropa - Now part of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, Centropa has a collection of interviews of elderly Jews between the Baltic and the Aegean.
The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art and Material Culture - at the Center For Jewish Art -
Old Jewish Cemetery in Kopaihorod
New Jewish Cemetery in Kopaihorod
Synagogue in Kopaihorod
Jews in KopaihorodThe Jewish Town of My Life - Yizkor-like book about Kopaihorod, Sataniv and Mogilev-Podolsky - by Mikhail Kupershtyn
Topographic Maps of Eastern Europe: An Atlas of the Shtetl - Topographic Maps of Eastern Europe (created by Hap Pondedal) offers a fantastic collection of downloadable small and large scale historical maps of the lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Pale of Jewish Settlement in late Tsarist Russia. Thousands of communities can be found in these images where our ancestors lived and eventually left.
History of Jewish Communities in Ukraine - in this website the creator, Vitali Buryak, gathers information and resources from the remaining Jewish Communities in Ukraine as well as the ones destroyed - read more about him & his project here - unfortunately not an entry about Kopaihorod yet
From Soviet and Kosher - Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939
From Soviet and Kosher - Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939
by Anna Shternshis
Indiana University Press, 2006
From The Holocaust in the Soviet Union
From The Holocaust in the Soviet Union
by Yitzhak Arad
University of Nebraska Press, 2020
The Pogroms in the Ukraine Under the Ukrainian Governments (1917-1920) - Historical Survey with Documents and Photographs
The Pogroms in the Ukraine Under the Ukrainian Governments (1917-1920) - Historical Survey with Documents and Photographs
by: Comité des délégations juives (Paris, France)
Published by: J. Bale & Danielsson, 1927
But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust
But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust
by Charlotte Schallié (Editor), Barbara Yelin (Illustrator), Gilad Seliktar (Illustrator), Miriam Libicki (Illustrator)
New Jewish Press, 2022
"An intimate co-creation of three graphic novelists and four Holocaust survivors, But I Live consists of three illustrated stories based on the experiences of each survivor during and after the Holocaust."
Kopaigorod is mentioned on page 148 of Kindle version: "The area where the wray left us was called Kopaigorod. My father went out and investigated. When he came back, he had decided that Koopaigorod was bad news, and we need to go immediately. He knew now that no one was going to help us, so we had to have the courage to leave."
Burning Ice: The Ghettos of Transnistria
Burning Ice: The Ghettos of Transnistria
by Avigdor Shachan (Author), Shmuel Himelstein (Translator)
East European Monographs, 1996
"...Kopaigorod, without the commander of the gendarms in Mogilev, Major Orasanu - who had orderd the deportation to the forest - knowing anything about this....After the Jews had returned to Kopaigorod from the camp in the forest"
The author, "DR. AVIDGDOR SHACHAN, educator, author and historian, is a specialist in studies of the Holocaust and of Jewish Martyrs and Heroes. Dr. Shachan has served as the Supervisor of Colleges for Israel's Ministry of Education and Culture, a post he held for twenty years."
Read: Burning Ice: The Ghettos of Transnistra (National Library of Israel)
From LIVE! REMEMBER! TELL THE WORLD!
The Story of a Hidden Child Survivor of Transnistria
From LIVE! REMEMBER! TELL THE WORLD!
The Story of a Hidden Child Survivor of Transnistria
by Leah Kaufman
Published by: Booxai, 2024
"Leah Kaufman was nine years old when the Romanian Jews were driven on a death march to Transnistria, a frigid area with hardly any food, shelter, or human decency. Somehow, she lived - and lived with her Judaism intact! As a young orphan, all alone, she kept Pesach and Yom Kippur, and remained faithful to her parents faith in Hashem and love of Judaism. She retained her humanity after a series of harrowing experiences and miraculaous rescues that would have destroyed a less resourceful, less pure person. When the War was over, the memories of her past lay dormant inside her for fifty years, while she put together a new life in Canada and raised a fine Jewish family. But then she remembered her legacy, her mother's constant charge to her during the last weeks of her life: "Leah, you must live! You must remember! You must tell the world!" She has been telling it ever since. She speaks for those who are forever silenced."
Watch: Leah Kaufman - Live! Remember! Tell the World! (on Youtube, 40 min)
Watch: Choose Life: A Documentary about Leah Kaufman (40 min - at 22 min she mentions Kopaigorod
From The Shtetl
Image and Reality
From The Shtetl
Image and Reality
by: Gennady Estraikh
Published by: Taylor & Francis, 2017
"There is no possibility of entering the world of Yiddish, its literature and culture, without understanding what the shtetl was, how it functioned, and what tensions charged its existence. Whether idealized or denigrated, evaluated as the site of memory or mined for historical data, scrutinized as a socio-economic phenomenon or explored as the mythopoetics of a rich literature, the shtetl was the heart of Eastern European Jewry. The papers published in this volume - most of them presented at the second Mendel Friedman International Conference on Yiddish organized by the Oxford European Humanities Research Centre and the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies (July 1999) - re-examines the structure, organization and function of numerous small market towns that shaped the world of Yiddish. The different perspectives from which these studies view the shtetl trenchently re-evaluate common preconceptions, misconceptions and assumptions, and offer new insights that are challenging as they are informative."
Sample text from
The Shtetl Image and Reality:
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The Shtetl Image and Reality:
From Here My Home Once Stood
From Here My Home Once Stood
By: Moyshe Rekhtman with Phil Shpilbeg
Published by: Fourth Generation Publishing, 2008
"Here My Home Once Stood: A Holocaust Memoir is a 2008 World War II memoir told in Russian by Moyshe Rekhtman and transcribed, translated and written by his grandson Phil Shpilberg."
From The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust
The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union
From The State, Antisemitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust
The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union
by Diana Dumitru
Published by: Cambridge University Press, 2016
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