Horodenka

Horodenka
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Horodenka Location of Horodenka within Ukraine
Coordinates: 48°40′3″N 25°30′1″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast (province)	Ivano-Frankivsk
Raion (district)	Horodenka Raion
Population (2001)
• Total	9,800

Horodenka (Ukrainian: Городенка, Polish: Horodenka) is a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Horodenka Raion (district).

The current estimated population is around 9,800 (as of 2001).

History

During World War II the Jewish population of Horodenka, comprising about half of the town's population, were shot and killed in a mass grave by the Nazis. About a dozen Jews survived and formed a partisan combat unit which fought against the Nazis and hid in the forests.^{[citation needed]}

Famous people from Horodenka

• Nicholas Charnetsky (1884–1959), Ukrainian Catholic bishop and martyr.
• Salo Flohr, chess grandmaster
• Jakob Edelstein, Elder of the Jews in Theresienstadt
• Marie Ljalková, sniper in the Soviet army
• Leonard Lyons, U.S. newspaper columnist
• Maurie Orodenker, U.S. music critic with an Americanized version of the surname "Horodenka"
• Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka, a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov and grandfather of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
• Aleksander Topolski, soldier, architect, and writer, author of "Without Vodka"
• Alexander Granach (Jessaja Szajko Gronish), leading stage and film actor in Weimar Germany, died at 52 while establishing himself in Hollywood and on Broadway. Author of autobiography, There Goes an Actor [new edition: From the Shtetl to the Stage: the Odyssey of a Wandering Actor.]
• Elias Jubal (born as Benno Neumann 12. 1. 1901), theatre director and founder of the Kellertheater "Theater für 49" in Vienna.

External links

• Horodenka in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
• Horodenka in the JewishGen ShtetLinks project
• The Book of Horodenka
• Photographs of Jewish sites in Horodenka in the Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina