Jews settled in Sudilkov in the 17th century. In 1705-1706 they suffered from attacks by Cossacks. In 1798 a Jewish printing house was established in the town. Sudilkov had a long tradition of manufacturing tallesim (Jewish prayer shawls). In 1897 the Jewish population of Sudilkov was 2,713, comprising 48.9 percent of the total population. Pogroms were carried out against the Jews in 1917 and 1919.
Under Soviet rule in the 1920s a cooperative that was officially given permission to produce textiles in fact produced tallesim. In 1930 a Jewish kolkhoz was founded near the town, and during the 1920s and...
In January 1942, according to one testimony, during the transfer of the Jews of Sudilkov to the ghetto of the nearby town of Shepetovka, a group of about 20 old Jewish men and women, was shot to death on the spot in Sudilkov and their bodies were thrown into the cellar of a former Jewish house there.
After the war Faina Ostrovskaya, a Holocaust survivor, funded the erection of a memorial stone near the house into which the bodies of the Jews murdered in January 1942 were thrown. The plaque on the stone lists in Yiddish the names of some of the victims:
Khaim Maister, Zvi Mendel, Zeev Milman, Tardas, the shoichet (ritual slaughterer), Shalom Yosef Yoavin, Leizer Lemberg, Shimon Shneider and his wife.
The remaining Jews of the town used to gather annually to recite a memorial prayer at the site.
During the post-war period the remaining Jews from Shepetovka and its surroundings tried to...
On August 20, 1941 members of the 2nd company of the 45th Reserve Police Battalion, together with Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, drove many Jewish residents of the town out of their houses onto the street. According to one testimony, after they had been collected at Bazaranaya [Market] Square, a selection was carried out - women with little children were put aside, while men, women without children, and young girls were loaded onto trucks and taken outside the town, to the forest near the road leading from Sudilkov to the town of Slavuta. Upon their arrival at the murder site the Jews were taken in groups to the...
Testimony of Larisa Karasyov, born in born in Sudilkov, Soviet Union, about her family's experiences in the Shepetovka ghetto and in Yampol
Childhood in Shepetovka with a well-off family; war breaks out; father immediately conscripted into the Red Army; family banished to the Shepetovka ghetto; abuses; Jews of the ghetto rounded up; Jews murdered; family spared from murder at the last moment by a policeman who helps them although collaboratinig wih the Germans; collecting testimonies from non-Jewish local residents that her mother is not Jewish; the family moves to Yampol; survival there until the end of the...
Medical doctor's diploma awarded 04 September 1924 to Chaim Yakov Skhizh, born in Sudilkov, Ukraine, a Red Army soldier who disappeared during the war
- Medical doctor's diploma from the Medical University of Odessa awarded to Chaim Yakov Skhizh, 04 September 1924.
Notes from Zoya Zhmudina who submitted the material:
Chaim Yakov Skhizh, the father of Zoya Zhmudina who submitted the material, was born in the village of Sudilkov in 1893. In 1934, he married Yevgeniya Ayzenberg, who was born in Odessa in 1900. Their daughter, Zoya was born in 1935, and their daughter Ella in 1938. Before the war, Chaim...