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Ostrog (Ostroh)

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 Ostrog was a main town of Ostrog district in Volhynia province.
Today it is a city of  Rovno region/oblast.
English: Ostrog, Ostroh; Ukrainian: Острог;  
Russian: Острог; Polish: Ostróg; Yiddish: אוסטרוג(Ostrog)
Other names
Ostraha, Ostrih, Ostra, Ostre
Wikipedia
Jewishgen
Kehilalinks.JewishGen 
Ukraine SIG Ostrog town page

Nearby Towns and Cities

Annopol 
Dubno
Goshcha
Kilikiyev 
Korets
Kremenets
Kunev
Lyakhovtsy
Mezherichi
Novgorod Volynsk
Rovno
Saslvl
Slavuta
​Shepetovka
Staro Konstantinov
Zdolbunov

History

Destruction

Archives

History

 Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Museum of the Jewish People
International Jewish Cemetery Project
The Ostrog Book

Destruction

 
Destruction
The fate of the Ostroh Jewish population during the German occupation (Ukr)
​Memoirs of Benjamin Vishnevetzky, born in Ostrog (Hebr)
Letters received by Katzoff [?], the submitter of the material, from his friends, Holocaust survivors (Rus)
Letter of testimony of Fyodor Intergoyz, born in Ostrog, Poland, 1920 (Rus)
NKSU photo album. Ostrog: Novoe Mistechko

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Archives

List of documents kept by the different archives:
   Routes to Roots Foundation
    Census 1795

Index surnames from documents
      Family names of Ostrog district
      Family names of Ostrog town
​            Family names from the investigation document (1860)
​     Additional Revision List (Census) year 1862-1863
     List of Jewish documents kept by Rivno Arhive
     Families lived in Ostrog
      Ostrog, 1795 Census
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Recollections about Ostrog

Family stories

Publications

Old pictures

Family stories

Family Frinkel (Frenkel)
   

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Publications

Articles:
Ostrog: remember all (Rus)
​Ostrog guide (Ukr)
Jewish Ostrog: stories, wich worth telling (INTERVIEW) (Ukr)
Jewish Ethnografic Museum. Ostrog
Jewish Virtual Library. Ostrog
Synagogue in Ostroh. Restoration of the ruin (Ukr)
Ostrog - map of historical and cultural heritage (Rus)
Ostrog (Rus)
The synagogue in Ostroh, which was restored by Hryhoriy Arshinov (Ukr)

​Movies:
The majestic synagogue is being restored in Ostroh (Ukr)
Ostrog. The Great Synagogue. (15th  century). Part 1 (Rus)
Ostrog. The Great Synagogue. (15th  century). Part 2 (Rus)
Ostrog. The Great Synagogue. (15th  century). Part 3. Rebirth (Rus)

Old pictures

 From Museum of the Jewish People At Beit Hatfutsot(Tel-Aviv, Israel)

Ostrog. Sinagogue

The interior of the synagogue

Synagogue

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Ostrog. Market

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