Mohyliw-Podilskyi

Mohyliw-Podilskyi
Могилів-Подільський
	Mohyliw-Podilskyi
Basic data
Oblast :	Vinnytsia Oblast
Rajon :	District-free city
Height :	79 m
Area :	20 km²
Residents :	30,036 (2019)
Population density :	1,502 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	24000
Area code :	+380 4337
Geographic location :	48 ° 27 '  N , 27 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '18 "  N , 27 ° 48' 29"  E
KOATUU :	510400000
Administrative structure :	1 city, 2 settlements
Mayor :	Mychajlo Zavolyuk
Address:	пл. Шевченка 6/16 24000 м. Могилів-Подільський
Statistical information
Mohyliw-Podilskyi

Mohyliv-podilskyi ( Ukrainian Могилів-Подільський , Russian Могилёв-Подольский Mogilev-Podolsky , Polish Mohylów Podolski , Romanian Moghilǎu ) is a 30,000 inhabitants city (as of 2019) and the Rajonzentrum the same Rajons mohyliv-podilskyi in the Ukrainian Oblast Vinnytsia on the border between Moldova and Ukraine .

view on the city

Mohyliw-Podilskyj is located in the heart of Podolia on the bank of the Dniester as a border town opposite the town of Otaci in the Moldovan district of Ocnița .

Administratively, the eastern settlement Odaya ( Одая ) and the northeast settlement Sonjatschne ( Сонячне ) belong to the city.

Mohyliw-Podilskyj was first mentioned in 1595, when the Moldovan prince Jeremia Movilă gave his daughter a dowry when she married into the Polish aristocratic family Potocki . The groom finally named the city after his father-in-law Jeremia Movilă.

The addition Podilskyj (Ukrainian Поділля Podillja ) only refers to the area surrounding the city to avoid confusion with the big city of the same name in eastern Belarus ( Mogiljow or Mahiljou ).

Mohyliv-Podilskyi Ghetto

After the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, Mohyliw-Podilskyj was administered by Romania and belonged to the Transnistrian Governorate . The city was badly damaged by shelling and bombing when it was captured. The ruined quarter was declared a Jewish ghetto and sealed off.

At the beginning, 30,000 people were interned in the ghetto, many of whom soon starved to death, died of disease and froze to death in winter. New deportees kept coming to replace the dead. When the ghetto was liberated by the Red Army in 1944 , around 10,000 prisoners had survived; however, a total of around 40,000 people died there.

The writer Edgar Hilsenrath was among the internees with his mother, brother and uncle. He processed his experiences in the novel Nacht .

sons and daughters of the town

• Witold Maliszewski (1873–1939), Polish composer and music teacher
• Leonid Mossends (1897–1948), Ukrainian poet, writer, translator and humorist
• Boris Baschanow (1900–1982), Soviet politician
• Yevgeny Sawoiski (1907–1976), Russian physicist

Town twinning

• Bachmut , Ukraine
• Kozyatyn , Ukraine
• Końskie , Poland
• Połaniec , Poland
• Środa Wielkopolska , Poland
• Bălți , Republic of Moldova
• Piteşti , Romania
• Šaľa , Slovakia
• Cavriglia , Italy

Web links

Commons : Mohyliw-Podilskyj  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Location information (Ukrainian)
• Entry on the place in the geographical directory of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavic countries

literature

• Mogilev-Podolskiy , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , pp. 493-496

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Чисельність населення (щомісячна інформація). Retrieved December 18, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Helmut Braun: Afterword . In: Edgar Hilsenrath: Night. dtv, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-423-13547-4 . See pages 640, 641.