VOLOCHISK

VOLOCHISK: 4932 2609, 203.6 miles WSW of Kiev, about 18 km from Skalat and about 50 km from the county seat, Tarnopol. Volochysk is a district center in Khmelnytsky region in Western Ukraine. It is situated on the left bank of river Zbruch. On the other side of the river is/was Podvolochisk at 4932 2609. Volochysk is a transport center. The town population is 24,000 with 8 Jews in 2000. The 1939 Podwolocyska population was 7,000 including the town of Zdanishovka of which 20% were Poles, 20% Ukrainians, and 60% Jewish (about 4,200.) http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Volochisk/JeremyLetter.html has information about the town and a few names from gravestones. The settlement on the right bank was later renamed to "Pidvolochysk", what means "the place near Volochysk". In 1890, there were eight synagogues. In 1913, Jewish Volochisk had a club, a theatre, two private libraries, and three book shops. In 1922, a Jewish section of the town's education committee was formed, a Jewish reading room opened, and in 1925 a Jewish collective organized. [April 2004] http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/1999/449920.shtml mentions three cemeteries that they are hard to reach. [April 2004] http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Volochisk/Volochisk.html has useful information. [April 2004] http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Volochisk/ReferencesPodVolochisk_YizkorBook.html links to Podwolocyska and its Surroundings yizkor book. The three cemeteries also served Sopranovka, Staromyshchizna, and Zdanishovka. [April 2004]