Zlatopol

Zlatopol (from Ukrainian: "Golden Field") is a small city in Ukraine, located about 80 km northwest to Kirovohrad, near Kiev.

History

Before the Holocaust, Zlatopol was a prosperous very rich Jewish Shtetl. There was also a gymnasium (school) for rich people in Zlatopol. The Jews of Zlatopol served in the Russian army during World War I and suffered under the pogroms of 1918–1920. Those who remained in Zlatopol were killed in August 1941. After World War II the Jews who survived in the Red Army returned to Zlatopol and buried the Jews of Zlatopol in a common grave in the old Jewish cemetery of Zlatopol. Today there are almost no Jews in Zlatopol.

Some of the most famous Jewish families of Zlatopol are: Brody, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, rabbis Elijah and Hillel Poisic, (the composer) Pokrass, Zola.

References

• Zlatopol JewishGen