Novohrad-Wolynskyi

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Novohrad-Wolynskyi
Новоград-Волинський
Coat of arms of Nowohrad-Wolynskyj
Novohrad-Wolynskyj (Ukraine)
Novohrad-Wolynskyi
Novohrad-Wolynskyi
Basic data
Oblast : Zhytomyr Oblast
Rajon : District-free city
Height : no information
Area : 27.00 km²
Residents : 56,555 (2004)
Population density : 2,095 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes : 11700-11709
Area code : +380 4141
Geographic location : 50 ° 35 ′  N , 27 ° 38 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 0 ″  N , 27 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  E
KOATUU : 1824000000
Administrative structure : 1 city
Address: вул. Шевченка 16
11708 м. Новоград-Волинський
Website : http://novograd.com.ua/
Statistical information
Novohrad-Wolynskyj (Zhytomyr Oblast)
Novohrad-Wolynskyi
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Novohrad-Volynskyi ( Ukrainian Новоград-Волинський ; Russian Новоград-Волынский Novograd-Volynsky , Polish officially Nowogród Wołyński - in the people's mouth and before 1796 Zwiahel ) is the center of the same name Rajons in the Oblast Zhytomyr in Ukraine with 56,000 inhabitants (January 1, 2005 ), located on the Slutsch River.

history

The city was mentioned for the first time in 1256 under the name Voswjagel . A year later it was burned down by the Galician Prince Daniel Romanowitsch of Galicia . Later the city was called Svyagel . During the second partition of Poland in 1793, the city came under Russian sovereignty and was renamed Novohrad-Wolynskyj. After the Polish-Soviet War and the subsequent Peace of Riga in 1921, it became part of the Soviet Union . The border with Poland ran only a few kilometers to the west. The city was of considerable military importance because it was located on the Kiev - Rivne - Lutsk - Kovel - Lublin road leading to Poland. After the attack on the Soviet Union , it was captured by the Wehrmacht in 1941 and remained occupied by it until early 1944.

At the beginning of the 20th century there was a well-known Jewish community in Nowohrad-Wolynskyj. About 10,000 Jews lived in the city, that is about 50% of its population. In the Ukrainian pogroms of 1919, around 1,000 Jews were murdered by Symon Petlyura's troops . At the beginning of the Second World War only about 6,840 Jews lived in Novohrad-Wolynskyj; about 30% of the population. In 1941 several hundred Jews were murdered in mass executions by German Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD . The majority of the Jews who initially survived were ghettoized and then also murdered in November 1942.

During the Second World War , like all cities recaptured by the Red Army in battle in 1943/44, the city suffered considerable war damage. Nowohrad-Wolynskyj is part of independent Ukraine .

sons and daughters of the town

Attractions

Next to the officers' house is the monument to the war victims by the artist Josef Tabachnyk, which was opened in 1995 .

Memorial to the victims of fascism on the mass grave for the Jews shot in the Second World War

literature

  • Novograd-Volynskiy , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , p. 523

Web links

Commons : Nowohrad-Wolynskyj  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Novohrad_Volynskyy/
  2. ↑ http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Novohrad_Volynskyy/links.asp
  3. ↑ http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/research/ghettos_encyclopedia/ghetto_details.asp?cid=650