The Kremenets district (uyezd) was a subdivision of the Volhynian Governorate (guberniya) of the Russian Empire located about midway between Ternopil and Dubno, in western Ukraine. The administrative center was the town of Kremenets,
Before the partitions of Poland (1772 to 1795), the district was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. After the partitions, Kremenets came under Russian rule.
Following World War I, when Poland was restored as a nation, the Kremenets district once again came under Polish rule, and remained part of Poland until an agreement between Russia and the Nazis once again divided Poland. Kremenets fell under Russian rule.
Before World War II, the town of Kremenets had about 15,000 Jews (about 8,000 permanent residents and 7,000 refugees), 40% of the population. Only 14 survived the war. Similar events occurred in other Kremenets-district towns. As of 2019, about 20 Jews lived in Kremenets.
From Kol yotsei Kremenits beYisrael vebatfutsot/Kremenitser landslayt shtime in Yisrael un oysland [Voice of Kremenets emigrants in Israel and abroad], published by the Organization of Kremenets Emigrants
Tel Aviv, April 1967
Dear Ones,
We have come to greet you from the pages of this review and to express here our friendly feelings towards you.
We should like so much to have you read our publications and the two [yizkor] books, printed in Hebrew and Yiddish. Unfortunately, we do not have the facility to do it in English. But you may be helped in this by your parents. Do it, please, and you will not regret it. You will learn who your folks there were, their way of life and their martyrdom.
All this may help us establish contact with you, something we have always dreamed of. And it depends only on you to make it a reality.
We have to see to it together that the memory of our martyrs is not given up to oblivion with the passing away of the old generation. Can there be something more terrible, more inhuman, than such a perspective?
REMEMBER ! ! There is no doubt that our folks there, on the edge of the blood-flooded trench, waiting for their turn to be shot down, were thinking about us, so far from them.
And alongside with the last groan, they heaved into the ether, fluttered also their hope, that that so tragic end of them would reach our ears. And as it did reach us, will we forget them??
So join us and your parents in the effort to keep their sacred memory in our hearts forever, and remember what was done to them.
Avraham Argaman-Buts
Manus Goldenberg
Shmuel Taytelman
Yitschak Rokhel
Based on pre-World War I boundaries, the Kremenets district included the administrative center town of Kremenets, the major towns listed below, and many other towns and villages (see Towns and Maps). The Kremenets District Research Group has obtained and translated records relating to these towns.
The topic pages on this site cover the town of Kremenets and the other major towns in the district.
Belozirka
Berezhtsy
Folwarki Wielkie
Katerburg
Kozin
Krupets
Lanovtsy
Novvy Oleksinets/Oleksinets
Pochayev
Podberezhtse
Radzivilov
Rokhmanov
Shumsk
Sosnivka
Staryy Oleksinets
Vishnevets
Vyshgorodok
Yampol
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