Dunaivtsi

Dunaivtsi (Ukrainian: Дунаївці, IPA: [dʊˈnɑjiu̯tsi]; Yiddish: דינעוויץ, romanized: Dinovitz; Polish: Dunajowce) is a city in Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine.

At the request of heiress Elżbieta Lanckorońska, King Sigismund III Vasa granted Magdeburg city rights, established weekly markets and two annual fairs.

[3] In 1605, King Sigismund III Vasa granted the coat of arms and established two more annual fairs.

Industrial peak of the town was on the 1870s, when 54 factories were working and close trade relations were between Dunaivtsi and Kyiv, Warsaw, Chişinău, Kharkiv, Poltava, Kherson, Łódź, Yarmolyntsi[citation needed].

A witness interviewed by Yahad-In Unum described one of these executions, stating, "The Germans gathered 700 Jews of Demyankovtsy.

According to the census of 1909 the population of Dunaivtsi was 13 733 (8 966 Jews, 2 349 Eastern Orthodoxes, 1 266 Lutheran, 1 188 Catholic, 4 members of Armenian Apostolic Church).

[14] Dunaivtsi has two twin towns — Turek (Poland)[15] and Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav (Czech Republic).

19th-century view of the Krasiński Palace with the Capuchin church and monastery in the background
Saint Michael the Archangel Orthodox Church