Hvizdets

Hvizdets (Ukrainian: Гвізде́ць; Polish: Gwoździec; Yiddish: גוואַזדזיעץ, romanized: G'vojiets) is a rural settlement in Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.

It is the birthplace of Polish film director Jerzy Kawalerowicz, artist Yaroslav Pstrak and politician Andriy Shevchenko.

On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Hvizdets became a rural settlement.

[3] Hvizdets was formerly known as Gvozdets (Russian), Gwoździec (Polish), Gvozdetz or Gvodzitz or גוואזדזיעץ (Yiddish), Hvizdec', Gvozhdziyets, and Gvozdzets.

The famous Gwoździec Synagogue once stood in the village, however, it was burnt down by the German forces during World War II.

Museum reconstruction of the polychrome wooden vault and bimah of the 1640 Gwoździec Synagogue , destroyed by Nazi German forces in 1941.