Kremenets, Ukraine (OKS, SHKURNIK)
Kremenets, Ukraine Surnames: OKS, SHKURNIK Jewish Population: 1897: 6,539 (37% of 17,673 population) As far as we can tell, there are no Jewish residents in Kremenets today. Family Members: Rachel Oks, G-GMother (mother of Jeanne (née Gouline) Highstein) B 1876 Kremenets ; M Jacob Gouline ~1899; Emigrated 1901; D 1947 Baltimore Shabsa Oks, GG-GFather (father of Rachel Oks) B ~1850 Lutzk; M Nekha Shkurnik; D 1919 Kremenets Nekha (née Shkurnik) Oks (mother of Rachel Oks) B ~1852; M Shabsa Oks; D b1902 Kremenets Shabsa’s brothers and their families lived in Kremenets. History: Kremenets is one of the oldest cities of Ukraine. It was first mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicle for the year 1226. (Freenet.Kiev). The first mention of Jews in Kremenets is for the year 1438, when the Grand Duke of Lithuania gave them a charter. Such charters, or laws, were important because they decreed that the Jewish population “formed a class of free citizens under the immediate protecti