Other Names & Spelling Variants

• Sosnove, Ukraine (current day spelling)
• Sosnovoje (Ukrainian)
• Selisht, Selishche (Yiddish), Rovno Gibernia, Ukraine
• Seish Scihin (Yiddish)
• Siedlisczce, Siedliszcze (Russian)
• Sagol Slistht (German)
• Ludwipol, Ludvipol, Lyudvipol (Ukrainian)
• Lyudvilpol (Hungarian)
• Lyudvopol (Czech)
• Volhynia Gubernia
  Other Names: Volinskaya, Wolin, Wolyn, Wolina, Wolinsk, Volinski, Wolinski, Volenskii, Wolenskj, Wolenskja, Volin, Volyn
  

Maps

(Latitude 50°50´ N, Longitude 27°00´ E)
251.8 km WNW of Kiev and 62km from Rovno

• Satellite photo from Google
• Atlas Map of Ukraine
• Political Map of Ukraine (1991)
• Political Map of Ukraine (1993)
• Shaded Relief Map of Ukraine (1993)
• Map of Ukraine (2000)
• Ukraine: Administrative Divisions (1993)
• Map of Ukraine
• Ukrainian Map Server
• Custom Map for Sosnovoye (Selisht)

Background Information

Brief History - Volhynia was ruled by Poland until the late 18th century, when Poland was partitioned by the Prussian, Austrian, and Russian empires. After the partition of Poland, Volhynia was a gubernia, or province, of the Russian Empire until 1919, when the western part of Volhynia once again became part of Poland. In 1945 the entire area of the Volhynia Gubernia was absorbed into the Soviet Union, but the gubernia system was no longer used and the Volhynia name was used to identify a smaller region, called an oblast, in the western part of the old gubernia. Most of what was the Volhynia Gubernia is now in Ukraine, with a small part of northern Volhynia in Belarus. Major cities and towns in and around Volhynia include Zhitomir (the former capital), Rovno, Lutsk, Kovel, Berdichev, and Novograd-Volinsk.

Yizkor Book

• Ludvipol (Wolyn); In Memory of the Jewish community (Sosnove, Ukraine)
• Yizkor Books at Congregation Neveh Shalom Ljudwipol S. Z. le-K. Ludwipol (Ludvipol-Wolyn; in memory of the Jewish community) (1965, 335 pp) [H, Y], N. Ayalon, Ed., (Tel Aviv: Ludvipol Relief Society of Israel) [DS135.R93 A97]
• Yizkor Books in the Holocaust Center of Northern California Ljudwipol S. Z. le-K. Ludwipol (Ludvipol-Wolyn; in memory of the Jewish community) (1965, 335 pp) [H, Y], N. Ayalon, Ed., (Tel Aviv: Ludvipol Relief Society of Israel) [DS135.R93 A97]

Searchable Databases

• Yad Vashem - THE CENTRAL DATABASE OF SHOAH VICTIMS' NAMES
The 13th Elul 5702 [Friday (morning), Aug. 26, 1942] is the yahrzeit of Selisht.
• JewishGen Family Finder
• United States Holocaust Museum

Miscellaneous

Other Sosnovoye (Selisht) Related Links

• Family Tree of Raber decendants of Sosnovoye (Selisht)
  Seven generations ago, in the eighteenth century, Keeva Raber moved to Selishche (Ludvipol) from Bereznits.
  An excellent source of information if you can read Yiddish is the Yizchor (Memorial) Book of Ludvipol, Yizchor (Memorial) Book of Ludvipol (Wolyn): In Memory of the Jewish Community, edited by N. Ayalon and published by the Ludvipol Relief Society of Israel (Actively Assisted by the Landsmanshafts in the Americas) in Tel-Aviv in 1965. This and approximately 200 other Yizchor Books are available at the Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, with selected titles available at local Jewish libraries. There currently is a volunteer project underway with the goal of translating these Yizchor Books into English.

• International Jewish Cemetery Project
• The List of Over One Thousand Perished Jewish Communities Enshrined on The Chamber Walls in Everlasting Memory
• Jewish Gen Home Page
• ShtetLinks Directory