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KITAY GOROD [KYTAIHOROD, Kytaihorodm KITAIGOROD, , KITAJGRÓD KITAI GOROD, KITAĬGOROD, KITAYGOROD, KITAY-GOROD, KITARED:

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ALTERNATE NAMES: KYTAIHOROD [UKR], KITAY GOROD [RUS], KITAIGOROD [YID], KITAJGRÓD [POL], KITAI GOROD, KITAĬGOROD, KITAYGOROD, KITAY-GOROD, KITARED. 48°39' N, 26°48' E, 11 miles E of Kamenets Podolskiy, 17 miles S of Dunayivtsi, 25 miles WSW of Nova Ushytsya.Included in Kamenets Podolsk yizkor book. [Not to be confused with another Kitaigorod, 36 mi NW of Uman]. Jewish population: 642 (in 1897), 1,087.

Russian Source with photos. "Village in Kamenetz-Podolsk district of Khmelnitsky region. Founded in 1607. In the 17-18 centuries. - In Podolsk province within the Commonwealth. Since 1793 - in the Russian Empire. In the 19th - early. 20. - In the county Ushitskom Podolia.KITAYGOROD In 1662 lived in 2 Jew, in 1887 - 1144 (52%), in 1897 - 1087 (48.9%) in 1923 - 1381 in 1926 in the district of Kitaygorodsky - 1152 Jew . Jewish community existed in KITAYGOROD with 1st floor. 17. KITAYGOROD In 1681 there were 27 Jewish homeowners. 2 In 1875 acted synagogue. KITAYGOROD In 1914 operated three synagogues. Jews owned 6 stores (including all 3 manufactory, the only grocery and haberdashery.) In early June 1919, there was a pogrom KITAYGOROD arranged by the Executive Director; approx. 80 Jews were killed. In 1925, immigrants from KITAYGOROD organized in the Kherson district agricultural Jewish collective "Naye Lebn" (38 pers.) in addition, in KITAYGOROD were 13 families (70 people)., who wanted to move to agricultural colony. In the same year in KITAYGOROD acted Zionist Box (9 pers.). Kytaygorod In July 1941, took part of the Wehrmacht. In 1942 Jews were deported KITAYGOROD in Kamenetz-Podolsky, and shot there. Detailed  photos. photohunt.org.ua / Kitaygorod_kam.html [Mar 2014]

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  • KITAY GOROD:     US Commission No. UA01450101
  • Alternate names: Kitai Gorod (Yiddish) and Kitaigorod (German). The town is located at 48º29 29º0, 94 km from Uman and 27 km from Illintchy. The cemetery is located at the southwest part of village on the farmstead at 8 Boyko Street. Present town population is 1,000-5,000 with no Jews.
  • Town officials: Polyanskaya Galina Musievna, Chairman of Village Soviet, tel. 071 38335.
  • Jewish Community of Vinnitsa, Chairman-Desner.
  • Others: State Archives of Vinnitskaya Oblast
  • The earliest known Jewish community was 18th century. 1926 Jewish population was 1571. The Jewish community was Orthodox (Sephardic), Conservative, Progressive/Reform and Neolog. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated rural (agricultural) flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by crossing private property, access is open with permission. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds site. The approximate size of cemetery before WWII was 1.00 hectares. No stones are visible. The cemetery has only common tombstones and no known mass graves. The municipality owns the site used for garden. Adjacent properties are residential. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939 because of housing development. Occasionally, Jewish or non-Jewish private visitors and local residents stop. The cemetery was not vandalized in the last ten years. There is no maintenance. Within the limits of the cemetery is farmstead with garden. The cemetery was demolished in 1960s. On cemetery land is the private farmstead with the kitchen garden. No threats.
  • Sokolova Eleonora Eugen'evna, 253152 Kiev, of 253152 Kiev, 5 Tychiny Street, Apt. 68 [Phone: (044) 5505681] visited site and completed survey on 27/09/96. Interviewed was Slusarenko Evdokia Petrovna of 29, Boyko Street, Kitay Gorod on 27/09/96. Documentation: look to the additional comments [sic]. Other documentation exists but was inaccessible.

 

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