Podgaitz
We know very little about the Podgaitz family.
It is not a common name. It is possible that originally they came from the town of Podhajce aka Pidhaytsi (49o16′ N : 25o08′ E) in the Ukraine. The town is 62 miles south-east of Lviv. It is in the Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine. It is 180 miles from Kopaigorod. Hinda’s direct ancestors lived nearby, in either Kopaigorod or Mogilov-Podolsk. In 1765 there were 1370 Jews living there. The Jewish population increased over the next century to over 8,000 Jews in the Pidhaitsi distict. The synagogue there was built between 1621 and 1648, but is closed and in a ruined state – it was used as a market in the communist era. On Yom Kippur in 1942, over 1000 Jews were sent to the Belzec extermination camp and 1500 more a month later.