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History of Korets
History of Korets
This guidebook of Korets recounts the town from its origins in 1150 through the present time.
My Shtetl
My Shtetl
12 page History of Korets and Novyy Korets
Includes postcards, 3 prints of a printing company, buildings, 1913 reference book page; photos of: a banknote, funeral, students, summer colony, founders, orphanage, and gravestones.
History of Korets, including World War II
History of Korets, including World War II
Virtual Shtetl presents a short history of Korets from 1569 to 1942.
Korets Ghetto: in Hebrew - for English translation, use a web browser that can auto-translate for you, like Google Chrome. (International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem)
The Holocaust of Volhynian Jews, 1941-1944, by Shmuel Spector, translated by Jerzy Michalowicz (JewishGen)
Photo Gallery: Tsal Kaplun Foundation
Photo Gallery: Tsal Kaplun Foundation
There is a full gallery of photos of Korets at the Tsal Kaplun Foundation:
Click on Old Pictures to view: the Jewish Hospital, Jewish Bath, Synagogue, and a town map from 1886.
Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
From the National Library of Israel site (Hebrew or English, see note below):
Photos: the Old Jewish Cemetery, tombstones of famous rabbis, Jewish homes, a synagogue, a shoemaker, a coachman, and ruins of the Korets Castle.
Documents: Books, Manuscripts, Music/Ethnographic Recordings, Maps
Note: the site's menus can be presented in Hebrew or English (to choose your menu language, tap the world icon 🌐 in the NLI page's upper right corner); also, use your web browser's "translate" function to see the individual works names and descriptions in English.
History of the Jews of Volyhn
History of the Jews of Volyhn
This article at JewishGen gives a wider history of the Korets region, Volhynia.
The Holocaust of Volhynian Jews, 1941-1944, by Shmuel Spector
The Holocaust of Volhynian Jews, 1941-1944, by Shmuel Spector
By Mark Heckman
By Mark Heckman
This review was originally published at JewishGen.
Related to: Volhynia (Province)
Author: Spector, Shmuel ; [translated by Jerzy Michalowicz]. Publishing information: Jerusalem : Yad Vashem : Federation of Volhynian Jews, 1990. ISBN 965-308-014-8; 383 pages.
This book describes the situation of the Jews in the western two-thirds of Volhynia before and during the Nazi conquest. The area covered is the part of Volhynia ruled by Poland between the World Wars, including the major cities and towns of Kovel, Vladimir-Volynski, Lutsk, Dubno, Rovno, and approximately 275 other towns and villages specifically mentioned in the book.
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