Nadvorna

Nadvorna (Ukrainian: Надвірна; Polish: Nadwórna; Russian: Надворная; also known a Nadwirna, Nadvirna, and Nadvornaya) is a city located in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in southwestern Ukraine.

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 invaded and occupied by the Soviets in 1939, and then invaded and occupied by the Germans in 1941 during World War II. Then it was absorbed by the Ukrainian SSR, part of the USSR. Finally, in 1991, it became part of an independent Ukraine.

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.

Nadvorna once had a large Jewish population, whose recorded history in the city dates to 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 Nadvorna, 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 Nadvorna Jews had been murdered in the Holocaust, some in ghettos created in the city, but many killed in the Belzec concentration camp.

External Links

• Detailed topographical map (in Russian) of Nadvorna and its surrounding towns
• Shtetl Nadworna – includes names of many immigrants from Nadvorna to the United States through benevolent societies and cemetery records
• Short history of Nadvorna from the Simon Wiesenthal Center
• Selected translations from the Nadvorna Yizkor (memorial) book describing everyday life
• History of the city, including a detailed timeline of the Holocaust against its Jews