Shtetl Rovno

Rovno

Page coordinator Liza Giller

Rovno is a administrative center of the Rovno district in Ukraine. (Ukrainian: Рівне, Russian: Ровно, Polish: Równe, Yiddish: ריוונע, German: Röwne.)
Other names: Rivne, Rowno, Riwne.
Wikipedia
JewishGen
Kehilalinks.jewishgen.org
Ukraine SIG Rivne town page

Nearby Towns and Cities

Zdolbunov 7 miles S
Hlynky 8 miles ESE
Oleksandriya 9 miles NNE
Horynhrad 12 miles ENE
Ozeryany 14 miles SW
Klevan 15 miles NW
Tuchin 15 miles ENE
Mizoch 16 miles SSW
Varkovychi 16 miles SW
Antonivka 17 miles NE
Berestovets 17 miles N
Hoshcha 18 miles E
Mochulki 19 miles NW
Derazhne 19 miles NNW
Olyka 20 miles WNW
Kostopil 20 miles NNE
Male Sedlishche 22 miles NE
Ostroh 23 miles SSE
Mezhyrichi 24 miles SSE
Kuniv 26 miles SSE
Dubno 26 miles WSW
Mezhyrichi 27 miles E
Ignatovka 28 miles NW
Mlyniv 30 miles WSW
Muravytsi 30 miles WSW

History

Destruction

Archives

List of documents kept by the different archives:
Routes to Roots Foundation

Index surnames from documents
Families lived in Rovno

Surnames from cemetery
Families lived in Rovno

Memorial in New York

At Beth David cemetry Elmont, New York Section E, Block 4 there is the memorial to Jews murdered in Rovno. It was erected in 1954.
The memorial looks like a trihedral pillar.
On two sides in English and Yiddish is written:
"In memory of the 23500 Jews murdered by the Nazis on Nov. 7, 1941 in our home town Rovno."

"This monument was erected by the First Rovner Sick and Benevolent Society
with the help of Rovner landsleit. "
On the third side are written in Yiddish several names of people who died in Rivne.
These names are:

1 Kachka Wolf and Gitl
2 Baderman Shimon Rivka and the child
3 Genis and family
4 Eisenberg Pesah and family
5 Chait Mordechai, Haya and Yehudit
6 Maisler
7 Vilner
8 Frenkel Leah
9 Sadak Fishel
10 Steinberg Abraham Schmilik and family
11 Steinberg Shlomo Mordechai
12 Kopit Pesah Toiva Abraham Liba Golzer
13 Maydanik Khaya
14 Deich and Capet
15 Schuster Pesach
16 Peper Itshak and Ita
17 Shlishman family
18 Zlata Kniajer
19 Fima Krepel
20 Liba Krepel
21 Rachel Steinberg
22 David Aaron ben Irbach Baer
23 Passion Bat Moshe Yakov
24 Joseph Rodin
25 Miriam Rodin

Recollections about Rovno

Family stories

Publications

Old pictures

Family stories

The Frenkel family (1922): Ita Leya, Tsal, Mirla, Leibish, Sheindla, Benzion

Frenkel family by Liza Giller

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Publications

    Movies:
        "Return to Rivne: A HOLOCAUST STORY"
        "Bruha Perelmuter, who fled Rivne during the war, returned to visit her hometown."
"What did the Rivne Jews do - they showed in paintings and collections" (Ukr)
        "Doomed: the history of the Rivne ghetto" (Ukr)
"Shot city" (Ukr)
    "Doroga smerti: Rovno-Sosonki"(English subtitles)
"Interwar Rivne: how to write an architectural portrait of the city" (Ukr)

Articles:
        "From the life of the Jews of interwar Rivne: retro photos " (Ukr)
    "From Lviv to Rivne"
"Jewish Ukraine: 10 facts about the jews of Rivne" (Rus)

Yizkor book (JewishGen)

Old pictures

Sites with photos of the pre-war Rovne:
Postcards. History of Volyn.
Old photos of Rivne
Retroua
Many of the photos feature Exactly May 3 Street. It was the main street of the city.
Throughout different periods of history the street had different names:

Russian Empire - Shosova Street (since 1857), as a part of highway Kiev-Brest;
The Second Commonwealth - May 3 Street (in honor of the first Polish Constitution);
The Third Reich - Adolf Hitler Street;
USSR - Stalin Street (1940s - 1950s), Leninskaya Street (1960s - 1980s);
Independent Ukraine - Soborna (Cathedral) (since January 30, 1991).

Rovno.General view.

Railway station

Highway street ( Street 3th of May)

Synagoge

Street 3th of May

Market

The additional sources:
Map of Rovno (year 1938)
Pictures

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