Shepetovka, Ukraine
And its descendants
shepetivka, Ukraine (current name)
Lat: 50° 11', Long: 27° 04'
This web page
This website was assembled to provide information for people interested in Jewish heritage from the town of Shepetovka. It is also intended to honor the residents of Shepetovka, both emigrants and current residents, and also the memory of our Shepetovka ancestors who were murdered there during the Holocaust. I hope that descendants may recognize a name or a face and help add to the knowledge base for this town. In this effort, I was greatly assisted by Miriam Weiner, who has roots in the town and provided extensive material. Her willingness to share her tremendous base of knowledge has been invaluable to this project. Special thanks go out to an indefatigable early researcher of Shepetovka, Mr. Sanford Masovitz. Although I never met Mr. Masovitz, this website owes so much to him. I also thank other contributors, including Marla Raucher Osborn, Christian Herrmann, David Kalis, Esther Chanie Dushinsky, Polina Gluskin, Lesley Kisner Cafarelli, Yoni Kupchick, Norman Shacat, Aaron Glassman, Irene Soskin, Michal Troudart, Linda Strauss, Marilyn Lustig, Renee Hatt, Barry Porter, Ilya Zeldes, Kirill Gayvoronsky, Maureen Hershman Shaw, Richard Narva, Jean Kaplan Teichroew, Axel Reineke, Donna Gershman, Michael Bernstein, Ariana Klein, Lauren John, Mitchel Lidowsky, Shirley Ginzburg, Scott Berger, Christine Meadows, and Jennifer Lichman.
The town of Sudilkov is located three miles east of Shepetovka, and the two towns are intricately related. Shepetovka is the larger of the two. For more information about Sudilkov, please this website.
Note About the Town Name
Researchers of Shepetovka are fortunate that the town name has been virtually unchanged within recent memory. The Ukrainian (current) version of the town name is Shepetivka. This web page uses the names Shepetovka and Shepetivka, depending on context. Spelling variations include Szepetowka, Szepietowka, Schepetowka, Shepetivka, Shipitivke, Shpitovka, etc.
Shepetovka Synagogue
Photo of the Synagogue of Shepetovka
from the S. An'Sky Ethnographic Expedition 1912-1914
Photo of the remodeled Shepetivka Synagogue
Photo credit: Marla Raucher Osborn, 2017
Databases
Search the JewishGen Ukraine Database
Search the JewishGen Family Finder page for Shepetivka
List of holocaust victims in the Yad Vashem database for Shepetovka (you may have to search using other spelling variations)
Other Shepetovka Links
Photos and list of archived documents by The Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation
Routes to Roots Foundation article by Sergey Kravtsov and Vladimir Levin about the architecture of the Shepetovka synagogue including plans and photos
Photos of Shepetovka by author David Kalis
Shepetovka page on jewua.org
Photos of Shepetovka and discussion of the burial site of Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz at asimplejew blog and the twotzaddiks website
Information on cemeteries in Shepetovka in the iajgs website
Wikipedia entry for Shepetivka
Yad Vashem Untold Stories entry for Shepetovka
Yad Vashem Untold Stories for the Sudilkov-Slavuta Road
Yad Vashem Untold Stories for the Tsvetukha Forest Murder Site
Yad Vashem Untold Stories for the Synagogue Murder Site
Yad Vashem Untold Stories Commemoration
Yad Vashem Untold Stories Report from the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission
Wikipedia article about Nikolai Ostrovsky, an influential writer of Soviet literature, best known for his novel How the Steel Was Tempered, who lived much of his short life in Shepetovka
Information and photos of Shepetovka and neighboring Sudilkov