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Balin

Community
Balin
Ukraine (USSR)
Jews began to settle in Balin in the 18th century. In 1765 177 Jews were living in the village. After the murder of local Jews during the Haidamak uprising, the Jewish population of Balin remained low. The Balin area became part of the Russian Empire in 1793. Balin's Jewish population increased during the 19th century, reaching 357 in 1897, when the Jews comprised 22 percent of the total population of Balin. Aharon Ashman, a Hebrew poet and playwright who moved to the Land of Israel, was born in Balin. During the Russian civil war (1918-1920) a pogrom was carried out in the village. During the 1920s and the 1930s the majority of Balin's Jews worked on the nearby Jewish kolkhoz Fray Mi ("free labor" in Yiddish). In 1926 Balin's Jews numbered 293, comprising 7.5 percent of the total population.

The Germans entered Balin on July 10, 1941 and immediately appointed a village elder. The Jews were ordered to wear yellow patches on their chests and backs, to hand over their money and valuables, and to pay special taxes under the threat of death. The men and teen age boys were taken to perform hard physical labor. The women and girls were made to clean the streets and the toilets at the German officers' quarters, to feed the animals, etc. The Jews were often abused and randomly shot to death by the Germans. On September 2 or 4, 1942 the Jews of Balin were collected on the village square and, after a selection, the old and sick people and women with little children were taken outside the village and shot to death. The rest, those considered capable of work, were taken to Kamenets-Podolsk. The able- bodied men were taken to Kamenets-Podolsk the day before the mass murder, while on the day itself an additional group of young people capable of work was selected and sent to Kamenets-Podolsk.

Balin was liberated by the Red Army on March 31, 1944.

Balin
Smotrich District
Kamenets Podolsk Region
Ukraine (USSR) (today Balyn
Ukraine)
48.866;26.683
Last Name First Name Year of Birth Place of Residence Fate
Bedny Peysyk Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Bedny Shlema Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Bedny Tula Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Bedny Yelyo Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Bluvshteyn Zolman Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Dorokhman Mikhail 1923 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) killed in military service
Feldman Dvoyra Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Feldman Moyshe 1905 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Feldman Polina 1936 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Feldman Reveka 1905 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingerman Aba Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingerman Itzko Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingerman Izchak 1885 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingerman Srul Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingerman Tevel Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingerman Y Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingermann Chaim 1931 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingermann Frida 1892 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingermann Issrael 1887 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingermann Lena 1928 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingermann Mindy 1924 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingermann Minichy Minikha 1926 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingermann Rachel 1889 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingermann Reweka 1938 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingermann Sara 1864 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingermann Tube 1898 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fingermann Zojlik 1892 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fuler Abram Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fuler David 1896 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fuler Grisha 1927 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fuler Hershn 1936 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fuler Idl 1921 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fuler Mendel 1923 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fuler Olty Dvosia 1904 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fuler Pesia 1941 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fuler R Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fuler Sosi 1900 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Fuler Surka 1930 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Getzel Moshko Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Gluzman Lakhman Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Goltfarb Khaim Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Gotlyk Itzko Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Grubman Khantza 1902 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Grubman Peisya 1926 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Grubman Rukhlya 1924 Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Grudman Aba Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Gruz Azril Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Idlyk Monashka Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Idlyk Yankel Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered
Kelerman Riva Balin, Ukraine (USSR) murdered