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Alternate names: Yampol' and Ямполь  [Rus, Yid], Iampil' and Ямпіль  [Ukr], Jampol [Pol], Yampil. 48°15' N, 28°17' E, 68 miles S of Vinnytsya (Vinnitsa), 26 miles ESE of Mohyliv-Podilskyy, 7 miles N of Soroca, SMoldova.On border with Moldova (former Bessarabia).. 1900 Jewish population: 2,823.

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  • Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), III, pp. 394-396: "Jampol".
  • Shtetl Finder (1980), p. 119: "Yampol" (#1).
  • Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), p. 1473: "Yampol (I)".
  • YAMPOL MEMORIAL BOOK (Yampol, Ukraine) Originally written in Hebrew and Yiddish in 1963. Translation from Hebrew of Ayara be-lehavot; Pinkas Yampola, Pelekh Volyn- A City in Flames. It tells of the destroyed Jewish Community of Yampol, Ukraine, written by the former residents who survived the Holocaust or emigrated before the war. Unlike the previous books, three version of the Yampol book are available, all with identical content:. Hardcover version List Price: $41.95 Available on Amazon for around $32. Student Edition (paperback) $14.99 Researcher Edition (e-book) $6.99. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Publicity Specialist
SOURCE with photos: "In the XVI century. Jampol was one of the major trading cities Bratslav, where the Black Sea on the Dniester delivered the goods, and in the opposite direction of the grain exported. At the end of the XVI century. Yampol with villages closest to it was purchased by the Crown Hetman of Poland and Chancellor Jan Zamoyski. The new owner fortified the city and rebuilt the castle. Perhaps it was in this period Yampol, as in other cities belonging Zamoyski settled Jews. According Zbarouski contract 1649 Transnistrian bordeOn the outskirts of Yampol town over the Dniester near the state border with Moldova in Vinnytsia region of Ukraine located an old Jewish cemetery. Now abandoned burial, local residents several times a year mow the grass around the headstones. However, there are just few historical facts about the Jewish cemetery in Yampol region. The Jewish community in the border town was once influential and strong. Subsequently, some of them moved to Israel and now live in the area remained very few Jews, religious - and even more so. Source: vlasno.infor Yampol turned hundreds of cities Bratslavskogo regiment in whose territory under the terms of the contract are not accepted Jews. In 1784 Yampol 104 Jews lived in 24 homes, they were attributed to the community shauampolrgoroda. According to the census in 1787 Yampol already existed a community of 307 independent persons (together with the Jews suburbs and nearby villages.) in 1795 - 1806. Christians belonged to from 177 to 238 homes, the Jews - from 78 to 120 (26 - 38% of all homes). leaders of the Jewish community were about 15 families large tenants to pay off the landlord belonged to items of income for the amount paid at the same time. In 1827 Yampol was three merchant guild, they all - Jews. Most Jews at this time were busy in petty trade and crafts, service marina, as well as viticulture. In 1852, among 79 Yampol artisans were 66 Jews. According to the 1855 Yampol county and merchants were not the first and second guild and the third guild was 347 Jews and Christians 9, the number of heads of families bourgeois class - respectively 448 and 921 people. At the beginning of the XIX century. Jews established Yampol Burial Brotherhood and built a large synagogue in 1853 Yampol'skaya synagogue and community contained two prayer houses with the total number of parishioners. In 1860 Yampol lived 1317 Jews (about 32% of the population). eve of World War Jews in continued to hold a dominant position in the economic life of the city. Among the first riots of autumn 1917 in Ukraine was mayhem Yampol October 29 (according to other sources, 6 November). A gang of criminals previously arrested garrison and knocking out telephone, defeated three quarters of Jewish shops, one of the quarters of the rioters burned down. In this pogrom "was killed and wounded a Jewish family." Arriving troops stopped and arrested revelries individual rioters. In June 1919 pogrom arranged soldiers troops Ukrainian Directory, were killed 5 people, affected 225 families. In the same month, a pogrom was a massacre Yampol Army soldiers of General Denikin. In February 1920, after an unsuccessful attempt to break parts of General Bredow in Romania, during the retreat along the bank of the Dniester their soldiers staged riots in several towns, including Yampol. . Despite the fact that many Jews Yampol during the Civil War and in the early 1920s. fled to the neighboring Bessarabia, the beginning of World War II in the village had about four hundred Jewish families. In 1939, in the town of Jews lived in 1753 (24% of the population). Yampol occupation lasted from 17 July 1941 to 17 March 1944, most Jews do not were able to evacuate before it started. Just 1941 - 1942 gg. Yampol passed through about 35,000 Romanian Jews.In Yampol were housed the headquarters of one of the German troops and "eynzats team" specially engaged in the destruction of the Jews. Already in the first days of the occupation here was shot nine Jews repeated shootings July 28 and August 2.July 29 German command decided to return back to Bessarabia 29,000 Jews deported to Podolia. Column of deportees were driven to cross the Dniester in Mogilev-Podolsky, but the Romanian border guards refused to miss. Then the Germans transported these Jews in Bessarabia by Jampol, shooting with 1265 people, stragglers from the column due to exhaustion. September 1, 1941 Yampol, as well as throughout Transnistria established Romanian civilian rule. Jampol became the administratOn the outskirts of Yampol town over the Dniester near the state border with Moldova in Vinnytsia region of Ukraine located an old Jewish cemetery. Now abandoned burial, local residents several times a year mow the grass around the headstones. However, there are just few historical facts about the Jewish cemetery in Yampol region. The Jewish community in the border town was once influential and strong. Subsequently, some of them moved to Israel and now live in the area remained very few Jews, religious - and even more so. Source: vlasno.infoive center of the newly fOn the outskirts of Yampol town over the Dniester near the state border with Moldova in Vinnytsia region of Ukraine located an old Jewish cemetery. Now abandoned burial, local residents several times a year mow the grass around the headstones. However, there are just few historical facts about the Jewish cemetery in Yampol region. The Jewish community in the border town was once influential and strong. Subsequently, some of them moved to Israel and now live in the area remained very few Jews, religious - and even more so. Source: vlasno.infoormed county Zhugastru on the Province of Transnistria. The central part of town ghetto was formed, in which lived a few hundred survivors of local Jews. They took residence in their homes about five hundred Jewish "experts" who were deported from Bessarabia and Bukovina (as of September 1, 1943 Yampol remained 156 and 348 Bessarabian Jews of Bukovina).Yampol'skaya Romanian Jewish community survived the occupation. In the postwar years Yampol lived about a thousand Jews. Religious community formed (according to the report) during the occupation, was recorded May 16, 1947 it consisted of 200 people. After the war, there were two Yampol minyan, met in private homes until the early 1980's. Today Yampol few Jews live." Lukin, "100 Jewish towns in Ukraine"Detailed photo

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Tranlsation of 1st paragraph on linked page:

"On the outskirts of Yampol town over the Dniester near the state border with Moldova in Vinnytsia region of Ukraine located an old Jewish cemetery. Now abandoned burial, local residents several times a year mow the grass around the headstones. However, there are just few historical facts about the Jewish cemetery in Yampol region. The Jewish community in the border town was once influential and strong. Subsequently, some of them moved to Israel and now live in the area remained very few Jews, religious - and even more so. Source: vlasno.info"

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