Other Names

•  Volotchisk, Volochyska, Wolochisk, Woloczysk, Wolocyska

Table of Contents

• General Description
• Maps & Location
• Links to Volochisk
• Background Information
• Connect with other Volochisk Researchers
• Nearby Towns Currently Being Researched
• Other Sites of Interest

General Description

Across the river is a sister town, Podvolochisk.  Before WW1 the river served as  a border separating Volochisk and Podvolochisk nationally as well as geographically. Volochisk was in Russia, and Podvolochisk in Austria.

Maps & Location

• Custom map for Volochisk showing some near-by towns
• Detailed map of the Ukraine

Voloczysk and Podvoloczysk are located on the left side of the map approximately half way down.

Pictures

•  View the railroad station in Volochisk
• Photographs of Volochisk, summer 1999

(Taken by Jeremy Grant, a Volochisk descendant and the Volochisk website's primary translator)
• A School Picture of a Class in Volochisk

(A gift of Yeva Lozdernik, names of students are included.....maybe you will find a relative!)
• Photographs of Volochisk, summer 2000

(Taken by Bobby Furst, a Volochisk descendant)

Links to Volochisk

• First Volochisk Benevolent Society web page
• Journey to a Recovered Memory: a family's roots in Volochysk

(A story by Ken Moskowitz apprearing in the Ukrainian Weekly)
• Read about Volochisk at the turn of the last century
• (Translation of a Yiddish document written by Samuel Trugman describing life in Volochisk for a contest in the Newspaper "The Tog")
• Read  "A Memory of Childhood"

(Translation of a Russian Letter written by Yeva Lozdernik describing a wedding in Volochisk )
• Read  excerpts from a letter about his experience in Volochisk

(Jeremy Grant writes to Helen May about his trip, fall 2000.......at end is list of legible stones in cemetery of Volochisk that Jeremy was kind enough to record! )

Background  Information

• Beyond the Pale - The History of Jews in Russia

 

 

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Connect with other Volochisk Researchers

Ragas Surname List
Search the Avotaynu Consolidated Jewish Surname Index
Join the Volochisk  e-mail list

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Other Nearby towns being Researched

• Podvolochisk
• Kupel

Other sites of Interest

• Ukraine Website

Includes instructions on how to join the SIG (special interest group)
• Create your own Shtetlinks site
• Podvolochisk Yizkor Book
• Routes to Roots

Learn about visiting the Ukraine

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