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Dymer (Ukrainian: Димер, Russian: Дымер) is a rural settlement in Vyshhorod Raion of Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine with a population of 5,592 (2022 estimate) It hosts the administration of Dymer settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. History. Clashes occurred here during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- Beginning
- Civil War Pogroms
- Between The Wars
- Holocaust
- After The War
- Old Jewish Cemetery
- New Jewish Cemetery
- Jewish Prayer House
- Holocaust Mass Killing Site
- Genealogy
Over the course of several centuries several ethnic groups co-existed on the abundant soil of Dymer. The Jews lived in Dymer since the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth rule. In the XIX – beginning of the XX centuries the Jews were mostly engaged in handicrafts and trade. The Jewish population of Dymer was 273 in 1847. According to the outstanding loc...
During the Russian Civil War in Ukraine (1917–1922) Dymer Jews suffered from endless pogroms. In autumn 1917 an armed Jewish self-defence force had already been established. In January 1918 a detachment of Jewish soldiers stopped a pogrom attempt. The autumn 1919 was marked with devastating pogroms when on 5 September the units of the Volunteer Arm...
Number of Jewish population dropped significantly by 1923 when there were 145 Jews. Among first komsomol members were Hatskel Gorodetskiy, Motel Kaganovskiy and Boris Smolyanskiy. At the end of 1920s Dymer Jewish community petitioned J. I. Shneerson to provide welfare assistance to repair their mikvah. Local synagogue was closed in 1929 and convert...
During the very first days of occupation over 70 residents of Dymer were shot in the forest near the local hospital. They were Communists and Komsomol (Young Communist League) members, high-ranking officials and activists. There were Jews among the murdered. Dymer Jews (10 families) were ordered to bring their valuables, warm clothing, food, and do...
Some Jewish families returned to Dymer after evacuation but community life didn’t revived. Few Jewish families emmigrated from Dymer to USA in 1970’s. Nearly 20 Jews lived in Dymer in 1989. In September 2011 a memorial was erected in the Dymer Jewish cemetery. The inscription in Ukrainian, Hebrew and English says, “This memorial was erected to comm...
Cemetery was used by Jewish communities for few cemeteries and was destroyed in the first half of XX century.
Dymer Jewish cemetery was used by the residents of Dymer and the Jewish colony Rykun’. It was destroyed by local Ukrainians after World War II. According to the Cemetery Project of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, the local executive authorities held restoration works on the cemetery in 1970; the metal grave plates wi...
All information about this building was provided by its current owner during my visit in 2016. The building is located opposite the site of the main Dymer synagogue. The exact date of the construction of the building is unknown but it can be assumed that it was built in the second half of XIX century. During the renovation of the building, the owne...
Most of local Jews were killed in Babiy Yar. But the last Jews who tried to hide and were found in 1941-1942 were killed on the western outskirts of the town on the site of former Chkalov aerodrome.
Additional sources of information on the Jewish community of Dymer can found in the Kiev State Archive: – District courts of Kiev province – Kiev, f. 227, 1782 – 1872, 2708 d. – statistical data on the number of Jewish population in Dymer in the years 1797 and 1858. – District police departments – Kiev, f. 1260, 1859 – 1912, 1944 d. – Data on the e...
Dymer settlement hromada (Ukrainian: Димерська селищна громада) is a hromada of Ukraine, located in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast. Its administrative center is the town of Dymer. It has an area of 956.0 square kilometres (369.1 sq mi) and a population of 21,042, as of 2020.
Jul 26, 2023 · During a recent meeting with UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) in June, Mushtakova and two other local women said they later found some documents and ID papers belonging to...
Jul 16, 2023 · UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission monitors met with two women, residents of Dymer in the Kyiv region, whose civilian relatives were taken by Russian soldiers when they occupied the area in late February last year. The men are still being held.
Dymer. Dymer is an urban-type settlement in Vyshhorod Raion of Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine with a population of 5,592 It hosts the administration of Dymer settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.Clashes occurred here during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Map. Directions.
May 19, 2022 · DYMER, Ukraine—Soon after entering this town north of Kyiv in late February, Russian forces appointed a little-known local entrepreneur as the new mayor. Oleksandr Kharchenko, 39, volunteered...
