Romanivka, Berdychiv Raion

Romanivka (Ukrainian: Романівка), previously known as Radianske until 2016, and Zhydivtsi from the beginning of the Soviet period until 1934, is a village in Ukraine, located in the Berdychiv Raion of Zhytomyr Oblast.

[4] Romanivka is named after merchant Roman Rubinstein (Russian: Роман Рубинштейн), a baptized Jew who had bought a plot of land for settlement in the Kiev Governorate and became well-liked among Russian aristocrats for helping abolish Ashkenazi Qahal in Imperial Russia.

[10] Similar to most of the Berdychiv region, the Jews of Romanivka were murdered during the Invasion of Russia by Nazi forces.

Witnesses stated that because the cries of victims were so loud, German aviation forces flew planes overhead to block out the noise.

One day (I don't remember which one), in September 1941, the Germans and policemen drove a lot of people past our hut to the pits that had previously... cleared.

Eternal memory to the victims of fascism",[15] and in 1996, a monument was erected at the site of the mass murder of Jews.

[8] Although a large portion of Jews used to occupy the settlement, it is now mostly composed of Orthodox, Protestant, and Catholic Christians.