Nadvirna

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Nadvirna Coast of Arms

Nadvirna (#redirect , Polish: Nadwórna; Russian: , tranlslit. Nadvornaya; also referred to as Nadwirna or Nadvorna) is a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine.

Until World War I, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the province of Galicia. In the inter-war years, it became part of the Second Polish Republic. It was then first invaded and occupied by the Soviets in 1939, then by the Germans in 1941 during World War II. It was absorbed by the Ukrainian SSR, part of the USSR, after the war, until finally it became part of an independent Ukraine in 1991.

The city is located in a hilly, verdant area about twenty miles northeast of the Carpathian mountains. Major exports and raw materials from the town include salt, oil and petroleum products, and timber. The town was popular at the turn of the twentieth century as a summertime resort, with restaurants and hotels.

Nadvorna rebbe

Nadvirna once had a large Jewish population, whose recorded history in the city dates to at least 1765. The city is still known for its Hasidic dynasty and rabbinical families, many of whom now live in Israel. In 1880, a census showed that there were 6,552 people living in Nadvirna, of whom 4,182 (64%) were Jewish. But by 1890, there were 7,227 inhabitants, 3,618 (50%) of them Jewish, and by 1921, there were 6,062 inhabitants, 2,042 (34%) of them Jewish. By 1942 all but a very few of the Nadvirna Jews had been murdered in the Holocaust, some in ghettos created in the city, but many killed in the Belzec concentration camp.

People

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• Manfred Joshua Sakel, Polish neurophysiologist, psychiatrist

External links

• [Detailed topographical map (in Russian) of Nadvirna and its surrounding towns]
• [Shtetl Nadworna] - includes names of many immigrants from Nadvirna to the United States through benevolent societies and cemetery records
• [Short history of Nadvirna from the Simon Wiesenthal Center]
• [Selected translations from the Nadvirna Yizkor (memorial) book describing everyday life]
• [History of the city, including a detailed timeline of the Holocaust against its Jews]

See also

• Nadvorna (Hasidic dynasty)

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