Kniahynychi

Kniahynychi (Knyahynychi; Ukrainian: Княгиничі; Polish: Knihynicze) is a village in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast near Rohatyn. It belongs to Rohatyn urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1] Its population in 2001 was 718 people.

History

The village had an important Jewish population before World War II.[2]

Until 18 July 2020, Kniahynychi belonged to Rohatyn Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast to six. The area of Rohatyn Raion was merged into Ivano-Frankivsk Raion.[3][4]

Jewish population until the Holocaust

According to the single document of Kniahynychi's Jewish history,[5] during World War I the annals of the Jewish community were destroyed, but some stories were preserved, indicating that the community was over 300 years old.

In 1915, during World War I, as the Imperial Russian Army retreated, all male Jews were deported, including the Rabbi (Berel Weiss). In 1918 the men returned but were continuously harassed and many families left for Argentina, the US, or Palestine. The remaining hundreds of Jewish families did not survive WWII, killed by the Ukrainian militia and the German forces.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ "Рогатинская городская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
  2. ^ "Shtetlinks--Rohatyn Current Photographs".
  3. ^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  4. ^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України. 17 July 2020.
  5. ^ a b [1] The only existing summary about the Jews of Kniahynychi] translated from Hebrew. (Rogatyn Memorial Book, JewishGen website).
  6. ^ There are pictures, documents, and family lists that survived the war such as the budget book of the Jewish community 1935-1938 at the Yad Vashem archives, or images of personal documents at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Still, there exists no detailed description of the Jews' fate during the holocaust.

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