30 Jan 2010

All chapters of the Sefer Vladimirets are now available online.  Some of the inserts are still being worked on, and the complete translation still needs to be edited for consistency and completeness, but as always, we wanted to make the information available as quickly as possible. Please see the Sefer Vladimirets Translations page.

The translation of the Sefer Vladimirets into English from Hebrew and Yiddish, with liberal doses of Polish, Russian and Ukrainian has taken over ten years.  It could not have been done without the help of the descendants of Vladimirets who either translated or paid for a translation.  Each chapter has the name of the person who did the translation and the sponsor when appropriate.  Members of JewishGen's Ukraine SIG group helped out with many a wayward translation (who knew there were people with Polish dictionaries from the 1800's!) Just saying "thank you" doesn't seem enough for this effort, but it will have to do.  Thank you.

You may notice the changes to the Sefer Vladimirets Translations index.  We are beginning to add .pdf scans of each piece of the Sefer Vladimirets, both to provide a copy of the original book contents for those who do not have access and wish to see it, and to show how contents flow from one section to another. There are many little items, not full chapters, that will now be translated and provided as well.  We figure that if it was important enough to include in the original yizkor book, it is important enough to be translated.

We have also posted 2 new items on the Stories & Writings page:  Charlie Shoock's memoir of growing up in Vladimirets, and Stan Oshinsky's tale of visiting Vladimirets & Bile.  Both are posted with permission, and are in the original .pdf form.  If you don't have Adobe Reader, there is a download link on the Stories & Writings page to get it for free from Adobe. 

Somehow, we have managed to lose photos out of some of the photo albums in the web gallery.  We are working on recreating the albums and will be uploading them soon.  If you have photos you would like added to the albums, please submit them as soon as possible.