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Lysianka (Ukrainian: Лисянка) is a rural settlement in Zvenyhorodka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Lysianka settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: 7,398 (2022 estimate). History. Until 18 July 2020, Lysianka served as an administrative center of Lysianka Raion. The raion ...
- Beginning
- Civil War Pogroms
- Between The Wars
- Holocaust
- After The War
- Famous Jews from Lysianka
- Lisyanka Jewish Cemetery
Jews appeared in Lysianka in XVII century. In 1702, The Haydamaky rebels killed almost all the Jews in Lysianka. The Jewish population of Lysianka suffered a lot in 1768 during the period “Koliyivshchyna”. Burials in the Jewish cemetery which date back to 1761 prove the existence of Jews in Lysianka in the XVIII century. By 1867 there were three sy...
During the Russian Civil War pogroms took place in Lysianka. These pogroms together with famine and epidemics led to the decrease of the Jewish population of the shtetl. On the 5th of July 1918, about 40 Jews were killed and 50 heavily wounded during the pogrom which was organized by the peasant rebels. Later the detachments of the Volunter Army ca...
In the 1920s, the local mikvah was destroyed. JDC reportabout state of Lisyanka Jewish community in 1923 was published in Joint Archive: In 1925 five families of immigrants originating from Lysianka organized a Jewish collective farm “Lysenkovskiy” in Kherson region. Below are the memories of 90 year-old resident of Lysianka Mariya Afanasiyivna Yab...
On the 24th of July fascists came to Lysianka. The policemen painted yellow stars on the Jewish houses. A curfew was enacted for all citizens of the village Ukrainian and Jewish. Anyone breaking this order would be shot or hung. Any Ukrainians who will let Jews into homes, to hide them or their belongings, or help them would be shot. The members of...
Approximately 20 Jewish families lived in Lysianka after the war. The Olshanskyys, Holempers, Spectors, Krymchanskyys, Bronevetskyys, Vekslers, Hutnyks, Promyslovskyys, Kushnirs, Bohoslovskyys, Shaposhnyks, Honcharovs, Vyshnevskyys, Meyerskyys, Holubchyks, Basovskyys, and Hofmans were among them. They had different occupations, such as cattle stora...
Leo Birinski(real surname Gottesmann, 1884-1951) was a playwright, a scriptwriter and a producer of Jewish origin. Dibner Bern(1897, Lysoanka – 1988 , Winton, the USA) was an engineer and a historian. Riva Davydovna Bisnovataya(1919, Lysianka – 2004, the USA) was a Soviet cinema activist, a sound engineer.
The cemetery was partially destroyed during the Second World War; after the War, in the 1940s-60s, burials in the row next to the road continued. Inscription on the oldest gravestone: פה נוח ר’ דובבר יוסף אסטראווסקע נפטר כ’ תשרי שנת תערב תנצבה Борко Островскій 29 сентября 1911 Here buried Is Reb Dovber Joseph Ostrovskiy. Died on Tishrey 20, 5672. M...
Jun 13, 2022 · The once imposing Palace of Culture is now a charred shell, its graceful columns blackened and broken. Russia isn't just bombing buildings here, it's erasing history. The tactic is deliberate ...
Jul 2, 2022 · Fighting has intensified for Lysychansk, Ukraine’s last bastion in the strategic eastern province of Luhansk, while blasts shook a southern city after the civilian toll from Russian attacks...
Lysianka is a rural settlement in Zvenyhorodka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine. Lysianka has about 8,210 residents. Mapcarta, the open map.
We saw the Ukrainian forces pulling back, shifting positions, exhausted yet defiant – and others preparing to go into battle in their place.
Lysianka offers a variety of activities and attractions for visitors to enjoy. Whether you are interested in exploring nature, immersing yourself in history, or indulging in local cuisine, Lysianka has something for everyone. One of the main attractions in Lysianka is the Lysianka Castle.
