Actually, there is a "G" in the Cyrillic alphabet, and it is pronounced
as a "G" in Russian. It is, however, pronounced as "H" in Ukrainian and
Byelorussian.

Unfortunately, as a result, my Grandmother's surname of GITLER was
pronounced as "Hitler" in her home town of Kamenets-Podolsk, Ukraine.

Beryl Blickstein
Silver Spring MD

Researching: BLICKSTEIN, GITLER, SASONKIN, GREENGOUS, ARONOVSKY, HANKIN

Subject: Re:Chortkov
From: Ilene Murray <ilenemurray@...>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 14:11:51 -0500
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Sonya, Nathan and others,

Is it possible that Chortkov is actually Horochov? That's a shtetl in
Volynhia on the Bug River, southeast of Brest. Sometimes it's spelled
Gorochov, since there really is no H in Russian.

Ilene Kanfer Murray in St. Louis
(My KANFERS come >from Horochov.)