Last updated on 6/7/2025 by rlb

Polonnoye, Ukraine

Polonnoye Synagogue, Pre WWII.
Photo of painting by
Isakowitz Jurij (Yuriy) Khodorkovsky
1996.
Donated by Eric Himmelfarb.

Resources

American Jewish Soldiers From Polonnoye

♦ WWII Draft Registration Cards

Surnames

♦ 1946 V-E Day Anniversary Journal of the Chicago Polonner Prog. Aid Society

VE Day

Jewish Soldiers From Polonnoye Area During WWII

Compiled by Semyon Bentsianov of Polonnoye in the 1990's, and translated by volunteers Evelyn Mintzer, Irina Kaplan, and Rita Zaprudsky during 2003, following are two lists of Jewish soldiers from the Polonnoye area. They include birth year, death year and place in most cases, military status and "current residence". Additional name added by Ellen Shindelman Kowitt per request by descendant.

♦ Jewish soldiers from Polonnoye area who participated in the Great Motherland War.

Killed In Action

♦ Jewish soldiers from Polonnoye area who participated in the Great Motherland War and who RETURNED after the war.

Survived

Documents

♦ 1953 Alien Registration Card; United Kingdom

Jack Bernstein

Gershko Barinshtein's son

Jack was born in Polonnoye in 1895

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♦ Travel Document of the Russian Empire

Allowed to travel to different towns & villages

10 April 1901 to 10 April 1902

Gershko, son of Leyba Barinshtein

Stewart Bernstein's great-uncle

Inhabitant: Volhynia Gubernia, Zaslavl Uezd, town of Labunia

Jewish; Age 33; married

Tailor

Illiterate

Height: middle; Hair: dark/white

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Landsmanschaften Cemeteries

♦ Baker Street Cemetery

W. Roxbury, MA

Jewish Cemetery Association

♦ Baron Hirsch Cemetery

Staten Island, NY

Poloner Independent Aid Society, Inc. (post 47)

Section B, Gate 47; Section G; Section J

♦ Beth Israel Cemetery

New Jersey

Independent Poloner Kranken Unt. Verein (post)

Block 5

♦ Waldheim Cemetery

Forest Park, IL.

The Poloner Relief Society

Gate 63