Bershad

Bershad

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	Moszyński Chapel
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Bershad (

administrative center of the former Bershad Raion until 2020. Population: 12,205 (2022 estimate).^[1]

History

Historical affiliations

Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1459–1569
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569–1672
Ottoman Empire 1672–1699
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1699–1793
Russian Empire 1793–1917
Ukrainian People's Republic 1917-1918, 1918-1920
Ukrainian State 1918

Soviet Ukraine
1920–1922
Soviet Union 1922–1941
Kingdom of Romania 1941–1944
Soviet Union 1944–1991
Ukraine 1991–present

Bershad was first mentioned in 1459. It was a

nobleman Piotr Stanisław Moszyński

built a palace complex in Bershad. The only remaining parts of the complex are the park and the chapel of Moszyński and Jurjewicz families.

In 1648, during the

synagogue survived World War II and was not closed during Soviet

times. It is still active.

During World War II, the Romanian forces under the direction of the

Holocaust including Bessarabian Hebrew writer and Yiddish poet Mordechai Goldenberg.^[3]

Many Jews worldwide bear a "Bershidsky/Bershadsky" surname referring to the town.

Bershad is also notable for being the least Romanian town within the Transnistria Governorate. According to the Romanian census conducted throughout the Governorate during late 1941, out of 4,361 town inhabitants, there was only 1 Romanian (a proportion of 0.02%).[4]

Sports

Bershad is home to the

football club FC Nyva Bershad

.

Notable people

Yury Kovalenko (1977–2014), a Ukrainian military leader, Hero of Ukraine

Anatoliy Matviyenko (1953–2020), a Ukrainian politician
Witold Pruszkowski (1846–1896), a Polish painter, was born in Bershad
Odessa
regional Association of Jews – former prisoners of ghetto and Nazi concentration camps
GRU
officer

References

^ ^a ^b Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
^ "המכון הבין-לאומי לחקר השואה - יד ושם".
^ "History of Jews in Bukowina [Volume II, pages 73-74]".
^ Publikationstelle Wien, Die Bevölkerungzählung in Rumänien, 1941, Vienna, 1943 (in German)

External links

(in Ukrainian) Bershad RADA - Bershad Local Council
(in Ukrainian) Bershad RDA Archived 2012-04-25 at the Wayback Machine - Bershad Raion State Administration
(in Ukrainian) Bershad city and Bershad's district - portal of Bershad
(in Ukrainian) portal of Bershad city - portal of Bershad city
(in Russian) Bershad. Electronic Jewish encyclopedia

[ua2022estimate-1] Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.

[2] "המכון הבין-לאומי לחקר השואה - יד ושם".

[3] "History of Jews in Bukowina [Volume II, pages 73-74]".

[4] Publikationstelle Wien, Die Bevölkerungzählung in Rumänien, 1941, Vienna, 1943 (in German)

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