Hwosdawka Perscha
| Hwosdawka Perscha | |||
| Гвоздавка Перша | |||
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| Oblast : | Odessa Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Lyubashivka district | ||
| Height : | no information | ||
| Area : | 4.414 km² | ||
| Residents : | 635 (2004) | ||
| Population density : | 144 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 66520 | ||
| Area code : | +380 4864 | ||
| Geographic location : | 47 ° 54 ' N , 30 ° 5' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 5123381404 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 7 villages | ||
| Mayor : | Wira Kryschanowska | ||
| Address: | 66520 с. Гвоздавка Друга | ||
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Hwosdawka Perscha (Ukrainian Гвоздавка Перша - often also written Hwosdawka 1 ; Russian Гвоздавка Первая / Gwosdawka Perwaja ) is a village with around 600 inhabitants in Lyubashivka district in the north of Odessa Oblast in Ukraine . It is located 166 km northwest of Odessa city center on the Kodyma River .
Hwosdawka Perscha is the administrative center of the eponymous district municipality , which still villages Vasylivka (Василівка) Wolodymyriwka (Володимирівка) Hwosdawka Druha (Гвоздавка Друга) Soltaniwka (Солтанівка) Tschabaniwka (Чабанівка) and Schlykarewe belong (Шликареве).
history
The place was first mentioned in 1796. At Hwosdawka Perscha and the neighboring town of Hwosdawka Druha, a concentration camp and two ghettos were established in 1941 under the rule of National Socialism . In 2007 a mass grave with the remains of about 5000 people was found there during excavations, of which only 93 are known by name. It is assumed that these are Jews murdered by the National Socialists.
Personalities
- Michail Sinar (* 1951), Ukrainian chess composer
Individual evidence
- ↑ BBC online : Ukrainian mass Jewish grave found (accessed August 3, 2007)