Zlatopol is a small city in Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

, located about 80 km northwest to Kirovohrad

Kirovohrad

Kirovohrad , formerly Yelisavetgrad, is a city in central Ukraine. It is located on the Inhul River. It is a motorway junction. Pop. 239,400 ....

, near Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

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History

Before the Holocaust

The Holocaust

The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...

, Zlatopol was a prosperous very rich Jewish Shtetl

Shtetl

A shtetl was typically a small town with a large Jewish population in Central and Eastern Europe until The Holocaust. Shtetls were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Galicia and Romania...

. There was also a gymnasium (school)

Gymnasium (school)

A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...

 for rich people in Zlatopol. The Jews of Zlatopol served in the Russian army

Imperial Russian Army

The Imperial Russian Army was the land armed force of the Russian Empire, active from around 1721 to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In the early 1850s, the Russian army consisted of around 938,731 regular soldiers and 245,850 irregulars . Until the time of military reform of Dmitry Milyutin in...

 during World War I and suffered under the pogroms of 1918–1920. Those who remained in Zlatopol were killed in August 1941. After World War II the Jews who survived in the Red Army

Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army started out as the Soviet Union's revolutionary communist combat groups during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922. It grew into the national army of the Soviet Union. By the 1930s the Red Army was among the largest armies in history.The "Red Army" name refers to...

 returned to Zlatopol and buried the Jews of Zlatopol in a common grave in the old Jewish cemetery

Jewish cemetery

A Jewish cemetery is a cemetery where members of the Jewish faith are buried in keeping with Jewish tradition....

 of Zlatopol. Today there are almost no Jews in Zlatopol.

Some of the most famous Jewish families of Zlatopol are: Brody

Brody (name)

-Brody as a surname:Bródy is a Hungarian surname. The "ó" is a long o [oh] in Hungarian and the "y" indicates a "from": "from Bród".*Henrik Bródy , Hungarian rabbi and writer*Imre Bródy , Hungarian physicist...

, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

Nachman of Breslov

Nachman of Breslov , also known as Reb Nachman of Bratslav, Reb Nachman Breslover , Nachman from Uman , was the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement....

, rabbis Elijah and Hillel Poisic

Hillel Poisic

Rabbi Hillel Poisic was a communal worker and Torah scholar. He was an expert in releasing agunot from their husbands, who abandoned them without divorce....

, (the composer) Pokrass

Pokrass

Pokrass is a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname.*Dmitry Pokrass , Soviet composer*Samuel Pokrass , Soviet-American composer*Sian Barbara Allen , American actress...

, Zola

Zola

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