Jewish Ludmir

Volodymyr Muzychenko was born in Sarny, Ukraine. He graduated from the Rivine Music College and the Rivne State Institute of Culture. Since 1988, he has lived in Volodymyr-Volynskiy where he teaches guitar at a children’s music school and is the head of the town’s small Jewish community. Muzychenko has researched the history of the Jewish community of Volodymyr-Volynsky extensively and takes care of the town’s Jewish graves and sites of execution.

List of Illustrations How the English Edition Happened, by Harvey Budner

Introduction, by Antony Polonsky

Author’s Note

Foreword

The History of the Jews of Volodymyr-Volynsky

Introduction

First Mentions

Privileges

The Kahal

The Organization of Jewish Settlement, Fourteenth–Sixteenth Centuries

Economic Conditions of the Community, Fourteenth–Sixteenth Centuries

Va‘ad Arba Aratsot

Spiritual Leaders

Shelomoh of Karlin (Karliner)

Khane-Rokhl Werbermacher

The Synagogue

The Jewish Cemetery

The Life of the Jewish Community in the Twentieth Century

The Tragedy of the Jews of Volodymyr-Volynsky

From the Killing Fields: The Reminiscences of Zippora

Weinstock-Zaar

The Reminiscences of Yaacov Harari (Berger)

The Reminiscences of Debora Interieur

The Memoirs of Ann Kazimirski

Moshe Krigser Recalls

The Reminiscences of Volodymyr Oksentiiovych Patuta

Oflag “Nord 365”

The Catastrophe That Befell the Jews of Volodymyr-Volynsky District

Moshe Margalit Recalls

Mykhail (Motl) Bass’s Account

Righteous among the Nations

Kateryna Petrivna Lipińska

Maria Otsaliuk’s Account

Franciszek and Hanna Strojvons

Bronisława Ziental and Her Daughter Irena Yakira

The Accounts of Liudmyla Stepanivna Yevtoshuk and Halyna Zinoviivna Nazaruk

Oleksandr and Solomeia Diachuk

Jewish Natives of the Volodymyr-Volynsky Area Abroad

Memorial in the Village of Piatydni

Safeguarding Memory

Prominent Jews Born in Volodymyr-Volynsky

Addenda

Glossary of Terms

Bibliography

Index