Staryi Ostropil (Ukrainian: Старий Остропіль), also known as Ostropil (Ukrainian: Остропіль), is a selo on the Sluch River located in Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast about 133 miles (222 km) WSW of Kyiv, Ukraine.
[1] Staryi Ostropil is located at latitude 49°48' N, longitude 27°34' E and is situated at an altitude of 742.5 feet (225 m).
Ostropil was an important Jewish center in the 17th century and was mentioned in many contemporary texts including the birthplace of the noted Rabbi, Kabbalist and martyr Samson ben Pesah Ostropoli.
Its Jewish population was wiped out along with that of Starokostiantyniv by the Nazis in 1942 before being liberated by the Red Army in 1945.
The 5200 murdered Jews have since been commemorated at the Holocaust Memorial Park in Brooklyn, New York.