NADVIRNA: [NADWÓRNA, NADWIRNA, NADVERNE, NADVORNA, NODVORNA , NADVORNAYA , Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast

ALTERNATE NAMES: NADVIRNA and Надвірна  [UKR], NADWÓRNA [POL], NODVORNA and נאַדווערנע [YID], NADVORNAYA and Надворная / Надвурна.  [RUS], NADVORNA, NADWIRNA, NADVERNE. נאדבורנה Hebrew: .48°38' N, 24°35' E miles WNW of Kolomyya (Kołomyja), 22 miles SSW of Ivano-Frankivsk (Stanisławów).in western Ukrain and is administrative centre of Nadvirna Raion. Summer resort. Nadvirna once had a large Jewish population,dating from at least 1765. The city is still known for its Hasidic dynasty and rabbinical families, many of whom now live in Israel. 1880 census: 6,552 people ltotal of whom 4,182 (64%) were Jewish. 1890L 7,227 inhabitants with 3,618 (50%) Jewish, and 1921: 6,062 inhabitants of whom 2,042 (34%) were Jewish. By 1942 all but a very few of the Nadvirna Jews had been murdered  in ghettos created in the city or the Belzec concentration camp. A memorial to the victims of the Holocaust from Nadvirna in the Baron Hirsch Cemetery Staten Island, New York where the Nadworna landsmanshaft has a section. The blue box of the Jewish National Fund was invented by a bank clerk from Nadvirna named Haim Kleinman. Kleinman visited Israel in the 1930s and planned to make aliyah, but died in the Holocaust. Source: Moshe Kol-Kalman, The Blue Box, The Israel Philatelist, June 2009, Vol LX, No. 3, p. 116-7.

Wikipedia. [Mar 2015]

• Nadworna; sefer edut ve-zikaron (Tel Aviv, 1975)
• Pinkas ha-kehilot; entsiklopediya shel ha-yishuvim le-min hivasdam ve-ad le-aher shoat milhemet ha-olam ha-sheniya: Poland vol. 2: Eastern Galicia (Jerusalem, 1980)

KehilaLinks: Shtetl site [February 2002]

Yizkor book [February 2002]

• JOWBR Landsmanshaft: (4):

• Gesher Galicia
• Virtual Shtetl Museum of the History of Polish Jews
• JRI POLAND Jewish Records Indexing Poland Town Page
• Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), VI, pp. 866-868: "Nadwórna".
• Shtetl Finder (1989), p. 62: "Nodvorna".
• Pinkas HaKehilot, Poland, Vol. 2 (1980), pp. 328-331: "Nadwórna".
• Еврейская энциклопедия (1906-1913), "Надворна".
• Shtetl Nadworna - includes names of many immigrants from Nadvirna to the United States through benevolent societies and cemetery records
• Short history of Nadvirna from the Simon Wiesenthal Center
• Selected translations from the Nadvirna Yizkor (memorial) book describing everyday life
• History of the city, including a detailed timeline of the Holocaust against its Jews
• Jewish history and Photographs of Jewish sites in Nadvirna in Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina
• Nadvorna (Hasidic dynasty)

NADVORNAYA I:       US Commission No. UA08230101

Alternate name: Nadvorna (Yiddish), Madworna (German), Nodvorna (Hungarian), Nadvornaya (Russian) and Nadvirna (Ukraine). Nadvornaya is located in Ivano-Frankovskaya at 48º38 24º34, 107 km from Chernovtsy and 38 km from Ivano-Frankovsk. The cemetery is located at center near bakery, Osvobozhdeniya Street. Present town population is 5,001-25,000 with 11-100 Jews.

-- Town officials: Town Executive Council of Katak Mikhail Ivanovich [Phone: (03475)22305].

-- Regional: Regional State Administration Chairman Berezitskiy Bogdan Adamovich [Phone: (03475)23264].Oblast State Administration-Skripnichuk Vasiliy Mikhaylovich [Phone: (03422)25280].

-- Jewish Community of Kolesnik, Victor Pavlovich [Phone: (03422)34894].

-- Others: Main Architect of Nadvornaya -Avramenko Vladimir Grigoryevich [Phone: (03475)22082].

The earliest known Jewish community was 17th century. 1939 Jewish population (census) was 2042. Effecting Jewish Community were 1867 when Jews received all rights of Austro-Hungary and 1890-1900 emigration to USA. The last known Vizhnitskaya, Sadgarskaya Hasidic burial was 1930. No other towns or villages used this unlandmarked cemetery. The isolated urban flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds. 101 to 500 stones, most in original location and between 50%-75% toppled or broken, date from 1709 to 20th century. Location of any removed stones is unknown. Some tombstones have traces of paint on their surfaces. The cemetery contains no known mass graves. Municipality owns property used for Jewish cemetery and industrial or commercial use. Properties adjacent are commercial-industrial and residential. The cemetery boundaries are smaller now than 1939 because of commercial-industrial development. Occasionally, private Jewish or non-Jewish visitors and local residents visit. The cemetery was vandalized during World War II and occasionally in the last 10 years. Jewish individuals within country and Jewish individuals abroad did restoration in 1996. Now, individuals clean or clear occasionally. Within the limits of the cemetery is an ohel. Vegetation overgrowth and water drainage are seasonal problems preventing access. Very serious threat: existing nearby development (part of the cemetery was expropriated for building bakery). Serious threat: uncontrolled access (A fence is being built for security.) and vandalism (Vandalism destroyed most tombstones leading to full annihilate of cemetery). Moderate threat: pollution, vegetation and proposed nearby development. Slight threat: weather erosion.

Hodorkovskiy Yuriy Isaakovich of Kiev, Vozduhoflotskiy Prospect 37a, Apt. 23 [Phone: (044)2769505] visited site on 19/09/1996. Interviewed was Kolesnik Victor Pavlovich of Ivano-Frankovsk, Pushkina Street, 76, apt.1 [Phone: (03422)34894] on 16/09/1996. Hodorkovskiy completed survey on 03/10/1996. Documentation: Jewish Encyclopaedia; Encyclopaedia Judaica; Kolesnik's Archive; Main plan of town.

NADVORNAYA II: US Commission No. UA08230501

Nadvornaya is located in Ivano-Frankovskaya. The mass grave is located at SE, in the forest near the highway Nadvornay- Lanchin. The Vizhnitskaya, Sadgorskaya Hasidic mass grave was dug in 1941. Jews from no other towns or villages were murdered at this unlandmarked mass grave. The isolated suburban wooded hillside has signs or plaques in local language mentioning the Holocaust. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. No wall, fence, or gate surrounds. 1 to 20 common tombstones, all in original location with no surviving stones toppled or broken, date from 1967. No stones were removed. The site contains marked mass graves. Municipality owns mass burial property. Properties adjacent are commercial-industrial, forest, and brook. The mass grave boundaries is larger now than 1939. Occasionally, by private Jewish or non-Jewish visitors and local residents visit. This mass grave has not been vandalized. Local/municipal authorities did re-erection of stones and cleared vegetation. Occasionally, authorities clean or clear. Within the limits of the mass grave are no structures. Slight threat: uncontrolled access, weather erosion, pollution, vegetation and vandalism.

Hodorkovskiy Yuriy Isaakovich of Kiev, Vozduhoflotskiy Prospect 37a, Apt. 23 [Phone: (044)2769505] visited site on 19/09/1996. Interviewed was Buzhenko Tatyana Stepanovna of Ivano-Frankovsk, Rynok Street 5 [Phone: (03422)22122] on 16/09/1996. Hodorkovskiy completed survey on 03/10/1996. Documentation:Jewish Encyclopaedia; Encyclopaedia Judaica; History of town and village of Ukraine, Ivano-Frankovskaya Oblast, Kiev, 1971, p. 404; Passport of memorial of history and culture.

Photos courtesy This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [2013]

[UPDATE] Photos by Charles Burns [March 2016]

[UPDATE] ESJF survey team visits historical Galician cemetery in Nadvirna, in SW Ukraine [April 2018]