Kolomey (Kolomyya), Ukraine is located on the Prut river, 40 miles from Ivano-Frankivsk. The city is approximately halfway between Lviv and Chernivtsi (Czernowitz), in the center of the historical region of Pokuttya.

On the eve of the Second World War Kolomey Jews numbered about 19,000 (45% of the city's population). This community was culturally vibrant and complex, and its influence on the Jewish culture of Galicia was significant. Before the Holocaust there were approximately 50 operational synagogues in Kolomey, diverse Hassidic kloizes and a Zionist synagogue. Jewish political and cultural organizations which developed towards the end of the 19th century enriched communal life, and the city was home to a variety of educational institutions, reflecting a wide array of ideological stances. A public library, named after Y. L. Peretz, operated in the city between the two World Wars.

Kolomey's Jews had an important role in the economic development of the region. There were many Jewish businesses in the city: flour mills, beer breweries, banks, tanneries, weaving and prayer shawls factories and brick-making factories, oil refineries and more.

Jewish printers published books and other materials, not only for Jews but also for their Christian neighbors – Polish and Ukrainian.

Beginning in the second half of the 19th century, Jews took an active part in the communal and political life of the city. Some were chosen as representatives for the Galician Sejm and the Vienna Parliament. Jews had respectable representation in municipal government and Jewish representatives were even appointed to mayoral and vice-mayoral positions.

During the Holocaust all of the Jews of Kolomey and its surrounding areas were concentrated in a ghetto comprised of three separate sections. During 1942 these sections were burned and the entire population of the ghetto was destroyed: some were murdered in the city streets, others were taken to the Belzec extermination camp, and the rest were shot in the near-by forest.

This Yizkor Book serves as a memorial to all the victims of the Shoah from Kolomey.

Kolomyya [Ukr, Rus], Kołomyja [Pol], Kolomea [Yid, Ger], Colomeea [Rom], Kolimeya, Kolimia, Kolomai, Kolomey, Kolomyia

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