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Nadvirna (Polish: Nadwórna; Nadverne; also referred to as Nadwirna or Nadvorna) is a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Nadvirnianskyi Raion.
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.
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Nadvirna (Polish: Nadwórna; Nadverne; also referred to as Nadwirna or Nadvorna) is a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in western Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Nadvirnianskyi Raion.
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.
History
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The first settlers in the region around Nadvirna appeared in 2000 B.C. In the area around the town many finds of bronze age artefacts attest to these settlements. The town arose around the Pnivsky castle. AT the end of the 15th century it was built by the noble family known as the Kuropat. The town is first mentioned in 1589 in an act about the attack on the inhabitants by tatars.In the second half of the 16th century the town received self governing status.
In the period of Halych the town was located on a trading route and a taxation office was located here. The sheild of the Kuropat family has been applied to Nadvirna. After an attack by the Tartas the Kuropat family built a more reliable fortress. in 1589. In 1621 the Opryshky under the leadership of Hrynia Kardash had their base close by. In 1648 the inhabitants toiok part in the Cossack insurection. Soldiers from Nadvirna joined the forced of Bohdan Khmelnytsky in his drive against Lviv. In the 17th century the toen became an important centre for the building professions and also an important centre for trade. Trade from Hungary to central Ukraine traveled through Nadvirna
In 1805 a court was set up in the town. In the 19th century the trades began to be replaced by factory manufacturing. One of the largest factories in Galicia for the manufacturing of farm machinery was erected in 1843 whos e machines were placed at the second world exhibition held in Vienna in 1844. In 1870 a match factory was built. In 1886 deposits of oil were discovered. In 1893 a railway line was built to Stanislaviv. The first train traveled the line on October 21 , 1894.
Nadvirna has a Greek-Catholic church and a Roman Catholic Cathedral in the name of the Trinity built in 1599. SA Roman Catholic parish was formed in 1609.
In the 16-17th centuries most of the population was illiterate however in the 18th century for a town of 2233 inhabitants there was only one school with a German and Jewish curriculum with 100 students.
Jewish population
Nadvirna once had a large Jewish population, whose recorded history in the city dates from 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.
There is a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust from Nadworna in the Baron Hirsch Cemetery Staten Island, New York where the Nadworna landsmanshaft has a section. A photo can be found here.
Jewish genealogical records
As of late 2006, the following vital records of the town's former Jewish community were known to have survived, and were available for genealogical research:
- Birth records: early 1850 - late 1865 - stored at the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine
- Birth records: 1866-1897; 1903 - stored at the Central Archives of Historical Records (a.k.a. AGAD), in Warsaw, Poland
- Birth records: 1898-1938 - stored at Urzad Stanu Cywilnego, Warszawie Archiwum (a.k.a. the Warsaw USC Office), in Warsaw, Poland
- Marriage records: 1890-1939; 1942 - stored at Urzad Stanu Cywilnego, Warszawie Archiwum (a.k.a. the Warsaw USC Office), in Warsaw, Poland
- Death records: 1868-1892 - stored at the Central Archives of Historical Records (a.k.a. AGAD), in Warsaw, Poland
- Death records: 1893-1940; 1942 - stored at Urzad Stanu Cywilnego, Warszawie Archiwum (a.k.a. the Warsaw USC Office), in Warsaw, Poland
- Kahal (Jewish community) records: 1924-1939 - stored at the State Archive of Ivano-Frankovsk Oblast, in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
- Kahal (Jewish community) records: 1933-1935 (Registry of local Zionist organization) - stored at the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine
- Holocaust records: 1941-1944 - stored at the State Archive of Ivano-Frankovsk Oblast, in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
- Property records: 1785-1788; 1819-1820; 1847-1879 - stored at the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine
- Police and KGB records: 1920-1932 - stored at the State Archive of Ivano-Frankovsk Oblast, in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
This is only a partial list of available records, and it only references records from the actual town of Nadvorna proper. There are also records available from the "Nadworna Poviat", which is the larger administrative district that included several smaller local villages.
Note that records less than 100 years old stored in Poland -- which in this case means either AGAD or the Warsaw USC office -- are not open to the public due to strict Polish privacy laws. This does not affect records stored in Ukraine.
Some of these vital records, particularly the ones stored at AGAD in Warsaw, have been microfilmed by the Mormons (LDS Church) and the microfilms are available to research at their Family History Centers, free of charge.
People from Nadvirna
External links
- - includes names of many immigrants from Nadvirna to the United States through benevolent societies and cemetery records
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See also
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