Zdolbuniv

Rivne district, Rivne region

Sources:
- Jewish encyclopedia of Brockhaus & Efron;
- Russian Jewish encyclopedia. Translated from Russian by Eugene Snaider;
- The All South-Western Territory: reference and address book of the Kyiv, Podolsk and Volyn provinces. Printing house L.M. Fish and P.E. Wolfson, 1913;
- A.I. Kruglov, "Zdolbunov", [in:] I.A. Altman (ed.), Holokost na tieritorii SSSR, Moscow 2009

Photo:
- European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative. Zdolbuniv Jewish Cemetery;
- Serhiy LS, Wikipedia. Mass grave of victims of fascism
- Zdolbuniv city Council. Tutystychnyy kod hromady

Rivne region - list of settlements and location of objects

Zdolbuniv, 2024

Zdolbuniv (ukr. Здолбунів, rus. Здолбунов), city, until 2020 - the district center in the Rivne region. Known since 1497. In the 16-18 centuries - the village of Lutsk powiat of Volyn Voivodeship as part of the Commonwealth. Since 1793 - as part of the Russian Empire. In the 19th - early 20th centuries - the town of Ostroh district of the Volyn province. In 1919–39 - in the Volyn Voivodeship as part of Poland, in 1939–91 - as part of the Ukrainian SSR.

In 1910, 1239 Jews lived in Zdolbuniv (11.9%),
in 1912 - 1345,
In 1921 - 1262 Jews (17.3%).


Market in Zdolbuniv, 1920s	Market square in Zdolbuniv, 1920s	Zdolbuniv, 1920s


Zdolbuniv in the 1913 reference book	Jewish cemetery in Zdolbuniv during 1 World War

Holocaust memorial in Zdolbuniv, 2014

On June 30, 1941, the Wehrmacht troops occupied the troops. Judenrat was created.
On August 7, 1941, 450 Jews were shot. Jews from the surrounding settlements were concentrated in Zdolbuniv; as a result, the number of Jews in the city reached 3 thousand people.

In June 1942, a ghetto was created, destroyed on October, 1942.
On October 13, 1942, 1556 Jews were shot near village of Staromylsk. In the following days, Ukrainian police and German gendarmeries caught and shot hidden Jews. In total, more than 1,700 people were killed.


Jewish cemetery in Zdolbuniv, 2019

Since 1900, a rabbi in Zdolbuniv was Avrom-Aba Volman (1877-?).

In 1903, Zdolbuniv was opened for a free settlement of Jews, in exception from the action of the “temporary rules” 1882.

In 1905, the Bund organization acted.

In 1910 there were 2 synagogues and a Jewish cemetery.

In 1913, Jews owned a kerosene warehouse and 17 shops in the city.
The Jews Kats and Polishchuk owned a watermill; the second watermill was rented by Jews Kupershteyn and Banvel.
All 3 dentists in Zdolbuniv were Jews.

In 1918, a school was opened in Zdolbuniv with teaching in Hebrew, which included in the system of schools of the Tarbut network (since 1939 teaching was conducted in Yiddish).

In the 1920-30s there were branches of various Jewish parties and organizations.