Town overview
| Modern town name: | Uvyn, Ukraine |
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| Latitude and Longitude: | 50.3500, 24.9100 50°21' N , 24°55' E |
| Galician (Austro-Hungarian) Administrative District: | Brody |
| Interwar (Polish) District: | Radziechów |
| Interwar (Polish) Province: | Tarnopol |
Map of Uvyn
Families from Uvyn
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Yizkor books for Uvyn
There is at least one known Yizkor book about Uvyn: "Memorial book of Radikhov, Lopatyn, Witkow Nowy, Cholojow, Toporow, Stanislawcyzk, Stremiltsh, Shtruvits, and the villages Ubin, Barylow, Wolica-Wygoda, Strilow (i.e. Stnilow?), Zawidcze . . ." ("Sefer zikaron le-kehilot Radikhov, Lopatyn, Witkow Nowy, Cholojow, Toporow, Stanislawcyzk, Stremiltsh, Shtruvits, ve-ha-kefarim Ubin, Barylow, Wolica-Wygoda, Strilow, Zawidcze, Mikolajow, Dmytrow") , published in 1976 in Tel Aviv.
The JewishGen website has an English translation of this book available online. You can read the original book online at the New York Public Library website, or you can find a copy in a library near you through the free library search website WorldCat.
There may also be other Yizkor books published that cover , or larger nearby towns, or the region in which it was located; check JewishGen's Yizkor Books database for the latest details.
About Yizkor books
A Yizkor book is a "book of remembrance" about a Jewish community that was destroyed in the Holocaust. Each book documents the town's history and usually gives a necrology (list of the murdered) at the back of the book. Most of the books were written by survivors from the town, or people from the town who had immigrated before the war, and were mostly published between 1945 and 1975, and usually written in Hebrew or Yiddish. Some large towns may have had more than one Yizkor book published at different times.
The non-profit Jewish genealogy organization JewishGen has a comprehensive online database of Yizkor books and the towns that they document. They also host English language translations of much of the content of the books, sponsored by the website's donors and volunteers.
Many of these books have been scanned and put online for free reading at the New York Public Library's Yizkor Book website. The Yiddish Book Center also offers reprints of Yizkor Books which you can buy on their website.