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Pohrebyshche
Погребище
Coat of arms of Pohrebyshche
Coat of arms
Country
Oblast
Raion		 Ukraine
Vinnytsia Oblast
Pohrebyshche Raion
First mentioned12th century as town of Rokitnya. Become a town in 1938, administrative center in 1984
Population
 (2015)[1]
 • Total9,765
Postal code
22200
Area code+380 +486

Pohrebyshche (Ukrainian: Погребище) is a small city in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Pohrebyshche Raion (district) in western Ukraine. Pohrebyshche is situated near the sources of the Ros River. Population: 9,765 (2015 est.)[1]

Names

Pohrebyshche is also known as Polish: Pohrebyszcze, [Погребище Pogrebischtsche or Pogrebishchye] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help), [ פרהאבישטא Prhobisht] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)

History

The town is very old and origin of its name is not clear. Pohreb means a big cellar in Ukrainian. On another hand Pohrebaty can be interpreted as to perform a burial. According to a legend, put down by Ukrainian ethnographer Pokhilevich, before Mongol invasion of Rus, during the times of Kyiv the town was called Rokitnya. Mongols level the town leaving only the cellars.

Synagogue and parochial church (Pohrebyszcze) by Napoleon Orda

People

Countess Ewelina Hańska (Rzewuska) a Polish noblewoman (szlachcianka) was born January 6, 1805 in Pohrebyshche. Ewelina was the sister of Henryk Rzewuski. She was married to Wacław Hański, a landowning noble, who was about twenty years older than she was. After his death she became wife of the French novelist Honoré de Balzac in 1850.

The town had a substantial Jewish population before the Communists took over. There were periodic pogroms before then and raids by the Bolsheviks before Lenin's definitive consolidation of power. In 1928, the large Synagogue was converted into a Workmans Club.

The remaining Jews were murdered during the Second World War by the Nazis and local fascists. [2]

  • City hall
    City hall
  • Church in Pohrebyshche
    Church in Pohrebyshche
  • Chapel near the town
    Chapel near the town
  • World War II memorial
    World War II memorial

Other nearby communities

References

  1. ^ a b "Чисельність наявного населення України (Actual population of Ukraine)" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  2. ^ http://archive.jta.org/article/1928/02/27/2770792/two-more-synagogues-in-russia-are-converted-into-workmens-clubs


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