Voinyliv*

While searching for photographs of rural Ukraine, I came across Voinyliv. Wikipedia says:

“Prior to World War II, Voinyliv like most of western Ukraine, belonged to Poland and had ab. 1000 inhabitants.

“The book Where Once We Walked states that before the war Voinyliv had a Jewish population of 944 persons."

By my math, if the town’s population was about 1,000, and 944 of those were Jews, that sort of makes Voinyliv a Jewish town.

Now, Voinyliv’s population is around 2,700, “nearly exclusively Ukrainian.”

As with other towns of eastern Poland, Voinyliv’s population disappeared in ghettos and death camps. Victorious Russia populated the area with Ukrainians.

Wikipedia has a picture of the newly built (2004) “Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church” in Voinyliv.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynilov

The town is in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.

Pictures: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ivano-frankivsk+oblast%2c&qpvt=Ivano-Frankivsk+Oblast%2c+&FORM=IGRE

*There are various spellings.