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...
After the war the Jews who returned to Shepetovka tried to obtain permission from the local authorities to fence off the murder site of the Jews from Shepetovka, Sudilkov, and the surrounding area and to erect a monument at the site. Since there was no response on the part of the authorities, the Jews themselves collected money, fenced off the site, and erected a monument that indicated that Soviet civilians were murdered at the site. Apparently after the Soviet era, in independent Ukraine, at the site was erected a monument in a shape of a lit menorah, a symbol of the Jewish people, thus clearly indicating the...
Jews are mentioned as living in Shepetovka in the 18th century. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries Shepetovka was a Hasidic center, particularly in the time of Rabbi Pinhas Shapiro of Korets (1726-1791). In 1897 its 3,880 Jews comprised approximately 48 percent of the total population. In the spring of 1919, during the pogroms of the Russian civil war (1918-1920), 6 Jews were killed and several other injured by the Ukrainian army of Symon Petliura.
Under Soviet rule a number of Jews in the town continued to work in their professions as artisans while others formed trade cooperatives or worked at...
In the early 1990s, on the personal initiative of Semyon Orshtein and with the approval of the local authorities, a fenced-off black marble monument was erected in the area of the former brick factory. It bears the following identical inscriptions in Yiddish and Russian:
"This is the eternal resting place of 200 people from Annopol, who were murdered by the Fascists between 1941-1943."
The remains of the Jewish victims who had been killed at the site, and of those who had been shot near the village clinic, were reburied at the local Jewish cemetery with the assistance of young, religiously observant...
Jews began to settle in Annopol in the early 18th century. In 1765, the village was home to 395 Jews. In the second half of the 18th century, Hasidic Judaism was very popular among the local Jewish community. The successor of the Baal Shem Tov, Dov Ber (the Maggid of Mezritch; 1704-1772), lived in the village for a time, and was buried there. His disciple and successor, Meshulam Zusha, lived and taught in Annopol, and was buried there, as well. By 1784, after the massacre of local Jews during the Haidamak uprising, the Jewish population of Annopol had shrunk to 215. Annopol's Jewish community grew in the 19th...
