# Bershad

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City in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine

City in Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine

Bershad Бершадь City Moszyński Chapel Flag Coat of arms Bershad Show map of Vinnytsia Oblast Bershad Show map of Ukraine Country Ukraine Oblast Vinnytsia Oblast Raion Haisyn Raion Hromada Bershad urban hromada Population (2024)[1] • Total 11,742 Time zone UTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)

**Bershad** ([Ukrainian](/source/Ukrainian_language): Бершадь, IPA: [\[ˈbɛrʃɐdʲ\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Ukrainian) [ⓘ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LL-Q8798_(ukr)-Gzhegozh-%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8C.wav); [Polish](/source/Polish_language): *Berszad*) is a city in [Vinnytsia Oblast](/source/Vinnytsia_Oblast), [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine), located in the historic region of [Podolia](/source/Podolia). Until 2020 it was the [administrative center](/source/Administrative_center) of the former [Bershad Raion](/source/Bershad_Raion).

## History

Historical affiliations

[Grand Duchy of Lithuania](/source/Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania) 1459–1569 [Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth](/source/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth) 1569–1672 [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire) 1672–1699 [Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth](/source/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth) 1699–1793 [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire) 1793–1917 [Ukrainian People's Republic](/source/Ukrainian_People's_Republic) 1917–1918, 1918–1920 [Ukrainian State](/source/Ukrainian_State) 1918 [Soviet Ukraine](/source/Soviet_Ukraine) 1920–1922 [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union) 1922–1941 [Kingdom of Romania](/source/Kingdom_of_Romania) 1941–1944 [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union) 1944–1991 [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine) 1991–present

Former Moszyński Palace in Bershad

The first extant mention of Bershad appears in 1459. It was a [private town](/source/Private_town) of [Poland](/source/Crown_of_the_Kingdom_of_Poland), owned by the families of [Zbaraski](/source/Zbaraski) and Moszyński. Polish [nobleman](/source/Nobleman) [Piotr Stanisław Moszyński](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Piotr_Stanis%C5%82aw_Moszy%C5%84ski&action=edit&redlink=1) built a palace complex in Bershad. The only remaining parts of the complex are the park and the chapel of the Moszyński and Jurjewicz families.

In 1648, during the [Khmelnytsky Uprising](/source/Khmelnytsky_Uprising) under the [Cossacks](/source/Cossacks), [Maksym Kryvonis](/source/Maksym_Kryvonis) conquered Bershad and slew many of the Catholics and Jews there. Before [World War II](/source/World_War_II), the city had an important [Jewish](/source/Ashkenazi_Jews) community.[2] Bershad was famous in the middle of the nineteenth century for its Jewish weavers of the [tallit](/source/Tallit), a ritual shawl worn by Jews at prayer. By the end of the century, the demand decreased, and the industry declined, leading many weavers to emigrate to America. In 1900 the Jewish population of Bershad was 4,500, out of a total population of 7,000. The Jewish artisans numbered about 500. The community possessed synagogues and several houses of prayer. One [synagogue](/source/Synagogue_(Bershad)) survived World War II and was not closed during [Soviet](/source/Soviet_Union) times. It is still active. Many Jews worldwide bear a "Bershidsky/Bershadsky" surname referring to the town.

During World War II, Romanian forces allied with the [Nazi](/source/Nazi_Germany) Germans transformed the Bershad area into a [ghetto](/source/Ghetto) as part of the Romanian-occupied [Transnistria Governorate](/source/Transnistria_Governorate). Many of the ghetto victims were Jews brought in from [Bessarabia](/source/Bessarabia). Thousands of Jews were starved to death or died because of typhus in the ghetto during the [Holocaust](/source/Holocaust), including the writer and poet Mordechai Goldenberg.[3][4] According to the Yad Vashem database, the number of Jews who died in Bershad whose names are available, including from among the deportees, who died in the Holocaust was 6,101.[5] Among the Jews who died during the Holocaust in Bershad, 1,774 had lived before the war in Bessarabia according to the [Yad Vashem](/source/Yad_Vashem) database.[6] Among the Jews who died during the Holocaust in Bershad, 2,806 had lived before the war in Bukovina according to the [Yad Vashem](/source/Yad_Vashem) database.[7] In fact, more than 8,000 Jews died because of disease (typhus), hunger and cold during the winter of 1941 - 1942.[8] On January 31, 1943, after the situation had improved in terms of deaths due to typhus, there were 9,250 Jews in Bershad, out of which 6,950 were Romanian Jews, including 3,200 from [Bessarabia](/source/Bessarabia), 3,500 from [Bukovina](/source/Bukovina) and 50 to 60 from the [Old Kingdom of Romania](/source/Old_Kingdom_of_Romania) ([Dorohoi County](/source/Dorohoi_County)), 2,250 local (Transnistrian) Jews, and 2,477 orphans.[9] After 2,203 Jews were relocated, on September 1, 1943, there 2343 5,261 Jews in Bershad (excluding the native Transnistrian Jews), 1998 from Bessarabia and 3,263 from Bukovina.[8] The Germans killed a number of Jews for allegedly helping the partisans during their retreat, before the arrival of the Soviet troops.[3] The number of Jews killed in this way, as well as those killed as retribution for the Jewish support for the pro-Soviet partisans, was 327.[8] According to the Jewish Virtual Library, "Local Jews organized an armed underground and later took to the forest and joined Soviet partisan units."[10]

## Sports

Bershad is home to the [football](/source/Football_(soccer)) club [FC Nyva Bershad](/source/FC_Nyva_Bershad).

## Notable people

- [Yury Kovalenko](/source/Yury_Kovalenko) (1977–2014), a Ukrainian military leader, [Hero of Ukraine](/source/Hero_of_Ukraine)

- [Anatoliy Matviyenko](/source/Anatoliy_Matviyenko) (1953–2020), a Ukrainian politician

- [Witold Pruszkowski](/source/Witold_Pruszkowski) (1846–1896), a Polish painter, was born in Bershad

- [Roman Shvartsman](/source/Roman_Shvartsman) (born 1936), a chairman of the [Odessa](/source/Odessa) regional Association of Jews – former prisoners of ghetto and Nazi concentration camps

- [Nadezhda Ulanovskaya](/source/Nadezhda_Ulanovskaya) (1903–1986), a Soviet intelligence [GRU](/source/GRU_(G.U.)) officer

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["СОЦІАЛЬНИЙ ПАСПОРТ: Бершадської міської територіальної громади Вінницької області"](https://sss-ua.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Bershadska-TH_sotspasport_1ch._druk.pdf) (PDF). UNHCR. Retrieved 20 May 2026.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [ברשד](http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/research/ghettos_encyclopedia/ghetto_details.asp?cid=178) [Bershad]. *Yad Vashem* (in Hebrew). Retrieved 20 May 2026.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-jewishgen_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-jewishgen_3-1) "Berschad". [*Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina*](http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Bukowinabook/buk2_073.html) [*History of Jews in Bukowina*]. Vol. 2. 1962. pp. 73–74. Retrieved 20 May 2026 – via jewishgen.org.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Kessler, Arthur (2024). Spitzer, Leo (ed.). *A Doctor's Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust: Survival in Lager Vapniarka and the Ghettos of Transnistria*. Rochester studies in East and Central Europe. Translated by Robinson, Margaret. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press. pp. 135–153. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-64825-093-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-64825-093-4).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Search Results (Place of Death: Bershad)"](https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/search-results?page=1&s_place_death_search_en=Bershad&t_place_death_search_en=yvSynonym). *Yad Vashem*. Retrieved 20 May 2026.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Search Results (Place of Death: Bershad, Before the War: Bessarabia)"](https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/search-results?page=1&s_place_permanent_search_en=Bessarabia&t_place_permanent_search_en=yvSynonym&s_place_death_search_en=Bershad&t_place_death_search_en=yvSynonym). *Yad Vashem*. Retrieved 20 May 2026.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Search Results (Place of Death: Bershad, Before the War: Bukovina)"](https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/search-results?page=1&s_place_permanent_search_en=Bukovina&t_place_permanent_search_en=yvSynonym&s_place_death_search_en=Bershad&t_place_death_search_en=yvSynonym). *Yad Vashem*. Retrieved 20 May 2026.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-auto_8-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-auto_8-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-auto_8-2) Megargee, Geoffrey P.; White, Joseph R.; Hecker, Mel, eds. (2018). "Bershad". *The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945*. Vol. 3. Indiana University Press. p. 607. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-253-02386-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-253-02386-5).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Ioanid, Radu (2000). *The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of the Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime*. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. p. 221. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9781566632560](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781566632560).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["Bershad, Ukraine"](https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/bershad). *Jewish Virtual Library*. Retrieved 20 May 2026.

## External links

- (in Ukrainian) [Bershad RADA](http://rada-bershad.gov.ua/) - Bershad Local Council

- (in Ukrainian) [Bershad RDA](http://rdabershad.gov.ua/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120425233413/http://rdabershad.gov.ua/) 2012-04-25 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) - Bershad Raion State Administration

- (in Ukrainian) [Bershad city and Bershad's district](http://www.bershad.ua/) - portal of Bershad

- (in Ukrainian) [portal of Bershad city](http://bershad.com.ua/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20060402193140/http://bershad.com.ua/) 2006-04-02 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) - portal of Bershad city

- (in Russian) [Bershad. Electronic Jewish encyclopedia](https://eleven.co.il/article/10585)

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v t e Administrative divisions of Vinnytsia Oblast Administrative center: Vinnytsia Raions Haisyn Khmilnyk Mohyliv-Podilskyi Tulchyn Vinnytsia Zhmerynka Hromadas Ahronomichne Babchyntsi Bar Bershad Bratslav Chechelnyk Chernivtsi Dashiv Dzhulynka Dzhuryn Haisyn Hlukhivtsi Hnivan Horodkivka Illintsi Ivaniv Kalynivka Khmilnyk Kopaihorod Koziatyn Krasnopilka Kryzhopil Kunka Ladyzhyn Lityn Luka-Meleshivska Lypovets Makhnivka Mohyliv-Podilskyi Murafa Murovani Kurylivtsi Nemyriv Obodivka Olhopil Orativ Pishchanka Pohrebyshche Raihorod Samhorodok Severynivka Sharhorod Shpykiv Sobolivka Stanislavchyk Stryzhavka Studena Sutysky Teplyk Tomashpil Trostianets Tulchyn Turbiv Tyvriv Ulaniv Vapniarka Vendychany Vinnytsia Voronovytsia Yakushyntsi Yampil Yaryshiv Zhdaniv Zhmerynka Cities Bar Bershad Haisyn Hnivan Illintsi Kalynivka Khmilnyk Koziatyn Ladyzhyn Lypovets Mohyliv-Podilskyi Nemyriv Vinnytsia Pohrebyshche Sharhorod Tulchyn Zhmerynka Yampil

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