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This is the Memorial Book of the destroyed Jewish community of Kobylnik Belarus, also known as Narach. It contains the history of the community, first-hand accounts of survivors and emigres from the town who managed to survive the Shoah (Holocaust).We, the children in the Diaspora, who do not read Yiddish or Hebrew will benefit from these English translations. We might will find some stories contradicted or repeated, but remember the people th...

Turka is a Ukrainian town situated on the left bank of the river Stryi. Jews first came to Turka in the 1800s. The first synagogue, Jewish cemetery and the Jewish old age home were built in 1730. In 1903, Turka began to flourish when a railway line connected the city with Lwow and with Budapest, and the Austrian government authorized the founding of an official Jewish community. Business expanded, especially the lumber business. Jews owned t...