Volyn history

Polissian village Kukly

Kukly is a Ukrainian village located near Manevychi in Volyn Oblast. The population is 935 people. The village is situated south (4 km)...

History of the Volyn colony Nowiny near Manevychi

The history of the Nowiny colony dates back to a little later than the foundation of the Second Polish Republic and the beginning of the...

Voters: gmina Kupychiv / Kupiczów 1938

In the late 1930s, the Kupichiv gmina of Kovel County (pl. powiat Kowel) had 29 communities. The commune was originally called Novy Dvir...

Voters: Kowel (Kovel) 1938

Kovel in the interwar period was one of the largest cities in the Volyn region. Hundreds of people from all over the Second Commonwealth...

Voters: gmina Grodek

The Gródek commune/gmina (powiat Kovel poviat) existed until 1930. The center was the settlement of Maniewicze. We indexed the lists of...

Easter letter from Eastern worker

Easter letter from Alexander Handshal [surname may have a grammar mistake] addressed to a family from the village of Svityaz near Shatsk....

List of Jews from the Czaruków and Połonka communes (gmins)

We publish the names of residents of Jewish nationality from the communes (gmins) of Czaruków and Połonka as of 1932. We have information...

Olha Torchyniuk: memories of Jews rescue

One of my teachers once asked us: "Which of you is willing to take a homeless person? Who is willing to give him housing, clothes, and...

Volyn'59: Rokytnytsya

This article is part of the project "Volyn'59", which tells about the photo-fixation of the historical and architecture objects located...