Justingrad
Sign in to saveJustingrad (; Yustingrod; also transliterated Yustingrad or Ustingrad) was a Jewish community in present-day Uman Raion, Ukraine. The Justingrad shtetl was created after Jews were forced out of their homes in the village of Sokolivka, Cherkasy Oblast. These Jews from Sokolivka moved to the land on the other side of a quarter mile bridge/dam across a lake edge. This shtetl was named Justingrad in honor of Justina, wife of the nobleman who sold the land to the Jews. Many of these Ukrainian Jews left for a better life in the United States around 1900.
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- Locality
- Соколівка
- Region
- Київська область
- Country
- Україна
- Population
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Kiev Governorate
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
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- native label
- Устинград
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1943-00-00
- inception
- 1825-00-00
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
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Justingrad (; Yustingrod; also transliterated Yustingrad or Ustingrad) was a Jewish community in present-day Uman Raion, Ukraine. The Justingrad shtetl was created after Jews were forced out of their homes in the village of Sokolivka, Cherkasy Oblast. These Jews from Sokolivka moved to the land on the other side of a quarter mile bridge/dam across a lake edge. This shtetl was named Justingrad in honor of Justina, wife of the nobleman who sold the land to the Jews. Many of these Ukrainian Jews left for a better life in the United States around 1900.
In August 1919, a pogrom made its way through Justingrad. Jewish men were murdered and Jewish women were defiled. With World War II, on July 27, 1941, the Nazis destroyed Justingrad. Currently, the land of former Justingrad is used as farmland and grazing for livestock from those of neighboring villages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Justingrad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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