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This site is dedicated to the memory of the Gitner family and all the other Jewish families who considered Litin their home.
Other Spellings: Lityn (there maybe also another town by this spelling)
- Possible variations in spelling using the soundex of the Ellis Island Database
Where is LITIN ? Latitude 49°19´ N, Longitude 28°4´ E , Altitude 836 feet (254 meters)
If you draw a line from Medzhibozh, through Letichev to Vinnitsa (Vinnica), the line will go through Litin.
Near-by towns & cities: Vinnista - Vinnitsa Region Jewish Community Chmelnik
"Not to know what happened before we were born is to remain perpetually a child. For what is the worth of a
human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" --- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
Background Information
Documents
In every generation each person must regard himself as if he himself had come out of Egypt, as it is said: "And thou shalt relate it to thy son on that day, saying, this is done on account of that which the Lord did unto me, when I came forth out of Egypt."(Exodus 13:8, Passover Hagadah)
- Necrology of Litin from Yad Vashem Testimonies and other sources
If there are names that look like they are listed twice, that is because there are may be two testimonies in the Yad Vashem Database, given by different people. -
Bits &
Pieces of Information from the Ukraine Database
- Families found in the Montifiore Census of 1875 in Eretz Israel
- Families that Immigrated to America
- Families that Immigrated to Eretz Israel
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Holocaust Memorial Name List
Catalog - Links to documents available
through the Yad Vashem's "Shoah-Related Lists
Database". The link is to the search engine,
where you type LITIN in the the field labeled
place. The documents are in Russian/Ukrainian.
- List of Jews from Litin
and its surroudings, Vinnitsa, U.S.S.R., who
either perished in the Holocaust or fell at
the Front during their Red Army service
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A list of Jews from Litin who
were murdered in the years of 1941-1943
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A list of people from Litin who
perished in the years of 1941-1943
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List of Jews from Litin,
Vinnitsa district, who were shot dead in 1941
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List of Jewish soldiers who
fell from Litin, Vinnitsa district, U.S.S.R.,
during their Red Army service
- Important Chassidim, 1865 (List of Volhynian Tsadikim, 1861 and 1865)
From the Denunciation on Tsadikim and their Bad Influence, 1861 and 1865
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Kishinev - People with
connections to Litin in the Kishinev Vital
Records Database
- Litin-Podolier Plot at MT. Hebron Cemetery NY
- Ohel Shem - Source of materials on Rabbis of Litin
- Rabbis of Litin
- Income Taxes for Podolia - 1883 - "Box Taxes and Candle Taxes"
- Testimonies of Ghetto Lityn
- Selected Records of the Soviet State Extraordinary Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes on the Territory of the Soviet Union
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Subscribers from Litin for the publication of
Har Bessamim 1897
Memoirs, Family Stories & Pictures
Some of the stories are PDF files, in order to read the stories you will need the Arcobat Reader which you can download free from the following site.
Books & Articles - Bibliography
- Arad, Yitzhak, Plunder of Jewish Property in the Nazi-Occupied Areas of the Soviet Union. Yad Vashem Studies, vol 29
- Chapin, David A. & Weinstock, Ben (2000) The Road from Letichev. Lincoln, Universe Com. Inc.
Does not mention Litin but tells about Podolyia, the area of the Ukraine where Litin is found. Good for getting a feeling of the life style.
- Heifetz, Elias, J.U.D., (1921) The Slaughter of the Jews in the Ukraine 1919. New York, NY, Thomas Seltzer - contains testimonies of witnesses.
- Hoffman, David B. & Gircyte, Vitalija, (2001) Collection of Box Taxes in 19th-Century Lithuania. AVOTAYNU XVII No.3
- Luckin, B., Sokolova, A., & Khaimovich, B., (2000) One Hundred Shtetls of Uraine: Jewish Communities of Podolia (russian) Vol. 2, St. Petersburg
704 pages, 380 illustrations, 50 maps. The second volume is devoted to the shtetls of Southern Podolia. It contains three large introductory articles, 15 articles of important Jewish center of the area and historical information about 16 smaller places (see table of contents). Contains pictures of furniture and artifacts from Jewish homes.
- Mandel, Moshe, (1984) Tales of Lytin (Stories are in hebrew, the Table of Contents is listed here in english.)
- The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust
Archives
Additional Sites of Information
Searchable Databases
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