Sudylkiv
Sudylkiv (Ukrainian: Судилків) is a village in Shepetivka Raion in Khmelnytskyi Oblast in Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sudylkiv rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]
Sudylkiv
Судилків | |
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 Sudylkiv village council | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Oblast | Khmelnytskyi Oblast |
| Raion | Shepetivka Raion |
History
The 1897 census reveals that out of a total population of 5,551 there were 2,712 Jews.[2] On August 20th, 1941 the 45th reserve police battalion killed 471 Jews in a nearby forest.[3] Today, the formerly important Jewish community is nonexistent due to the Holocaust and emigration.
Notable people
- Moshe Chaim Ephraim of Sudilkov, prominent rabbi from the town.
- Rebecca Spielberg, US film director Steven Spielberg's grandmother.[4][5]
- from 1865 to 1872 in Sudylkiv spent his childhood Ignacy Jan Paderewski, a Polish pianist and composer who became a spokesman for Polish independence. In 1919, he was the new nation's Prime Minister and foreign minister during which he signed the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I.[6]
References
- "Судилковская громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
- "Sudilkov: Jewish History".
- "Sudilkov". 6 May 2015.
- "Spielberg, Arnold". Rutgers Oral History Archives. 12 May 2006. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
- "A close encounter with Steven Spielberg's dad". Jewish Journal. 13 June 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
- Carol R. Ember; Melvin Ember; Ian Skoggard (2005). Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World. Springer. p. 260. ISBN 0306483211.
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