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Khorol (Ukrainian: Хорол, pronounced) is a city in Lubny Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Khorol urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. [1] Population: 12,540 (2022 estimate). [2] Until 18 July 2020, Khorol was the administrative center of Khorol Raion.
- Beginning
- After Revolution
- Holocaust
- After WWII
- Famous Jews from Khorol
- Jewish Section in General Cemetery
Jews probably first settled in Khorol at the beginning of the XVII century but in 1648 during the Khmelnytskyi uprising the local Jewish community was apparently annihilated. Jews settled in Khorol again in the early XIX century. According to archival data, in 1800, 44 Jewish peasants lived in the town. The revision in 1847 showed that there was a ...
In 1919 another pogrom was organized by soldiers of General Denikin. From memories of Rozalia Akselrod: Bandits robbed, raped, beat and murdered Jews around Khorol, but none of them came to shtetl. There was a fighting squad that included Jews and young people of other nationalities and they didn’t allow one single bandit to come to town. I couldn’...
On the 13th of September 1941, Khorol was occupied. In late October 1941, the nazi commandant ordered all the Jews to collect their valuable things, warm clothes, and products for two days and gather in a market square to be evacuated to Lubny. 460 people came to the square and were shot by the second division of the 45th reserve police battalion i...
After the war the following Jewish families returned to the town: the Slavutskiys, the Yurovskiys, the Senderovs, the Kapilsons, the Vitkans, the Glushkovskiys and others. However, the life of the community hasn’t revived because of anti-Semitism. Memorial was erected on the Holocaust mass grave in 1980’s only. In the 1990’s, about 20 people left f...
Aryeh (Arie) Dvoretzky(1916, Khorol – 2008, Israel) was a Russian-born Israeli mathematician, the winner of the 1973 Israel Prize in Mathematics. He is best known for his work in functional analysis, statistics and probability. Ben-Zion Dinur (born Ben-Zion Dinaburg; 1884, Khorol – 1973, Israel) was a Zionist activist, educator, historian and Israe...
The cemetery is located on the western outskirts of the town in Lenina Street. It forms the Jewish section of a general cemetery.
Khorol [Хорол; Xorol]. Map: IV-14. Town (2011 pop 13,720) situated on the Khorol River and raion center in Poltava oblast. First mentioned in 1083, the town was destroyed in the Mongol invasion. It came under Lithuanian rule in 1362 and, following the Union of Lublin in 1596 under Polish control.
This place is situated in Poltavska, Ukraine, its geographical coordinates are 49° 47' 0" North, 33° 17' 0" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Khorol. See Khorol photos and images from satellite below, explore the aerial photographs of Khorol in Ukraine.
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KHOROL, city in Poltava district, Ukraine. Jews first settled in Khorol in the early 19 th century; from only 78 in 1847 their number grew to 2,056 (25% of the total population) in 1897. The Jews of Khorol constituted a typical community of *Chabad Ḥasidim, described by B. *Dinur , a native of Khorol, in his memoirs Be-Olam she-Shaka (1958).
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