Bukachevtsy, Ukraine

(Bukaczowce, Bukotchovitz, Bukashevitz, Bukashivtsi)


This small town, near Ivano-Frankivsk (Stanislow), is my maternal grandmother's ancestral shtetl . With this page, I wish to pay my respects to her and her family, to those I knew and those I did not, to those who came to America and to those who remained behind and perished in the Holocaust.	2001
2007	There is a new sign for Bukachevtsy, certainly an improvement.

I visited Bukachevtsy in May 2001 and again in June 2007. There's not much left to tell you that Bukachevtsy once had a sizable Jewish population. There are no Jews and practically no Jewish buildings. Even the cemetery was largely destroyed. The Jews of Bukachevtsy exist only in our memories. If you have memories to share or ties to Bukachevtsy, please contact me (Linda Cantor).

Remains of Bukachevtsy's Synagogue
June, 2007

(photographs by Linda Cantor)

Published References and Research Sources

Where Once We Walked by Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Sack, Avotaynu, Inc., 1991.

Bukachevtsy, Ukr. (Bukaczowce. Bukotchovitz, Bukashevitz); pop. 733; 82 km SE of Lvov' 49° 15’ 24° 30’; COH, EGRS, GUM3, JGFF, LDL, PHP2, SF, YB

COH - Chamber of the Holocaust

EGRS - Encyclopedia of Galician Rabbis and Scholars

GUM3 - Guide to Unpublished Materials of the Holocaust Period

JGFF - Jewish Genealogical Family Finder

LDL - Latter Day Leaders, Sages and Scholars

PHP2 - Pinkas Hakehillot Poland, Vol 2 Eastern Galicia

SF - Shtetl Finder

YB - Yiskor Books

JewishGen Family Finder

Bukachevtsy's Place in History - Click here

Holocaust in Bukachevtsy

Click here for more information on the Holocaust in Bukachevtsy

Click here for a list of Holocaust victims (from Yad Vashem pages of testimony)

Click here to read personal recollections of a Bukachevtsy survivor. "Threads of Memory"

Click here to see a list of people listed in the Project Heart database

Click here to see a list of those who survived the Holocaust in Bukachevtsy

Records in Europe

People

Photograph Album Photograph Album - Visit with our Bukachevtsy Families


Bukachevtsy before the Second World War	Photos courtesy of Tomasz Kizny

Yiskor Book - Click here to see a translation of the "Bukaczowce" chapter from Pinkas Hakehillot Polin


Houses in Bukachevtsy, May 2001	Houses in Bukachevtsy, May 2001


Main Street in Bukachevsty, June 2007	Main Street in Bukachevsty, June 2007
(photographs by Linda Cantor)

Cemetery in Bukachevtsy

The cemetery, which still stood relatively intact at the end of World War II (by eyewitness account of survivors), was destroyed by the Soviet Union. The ground is mostly empty and there are a few remnants of tombstones left. But the undergrowth is so heavy that it is all but impossible to know exactly what remains.

We recently arranged to complete a fence around the cemetery and hope to have a dedication ceremony in the next year or two. Please contact the webmaster if you are interested in more information and in contributing to this effort.


Bukachevtsy Cemetery	Remains of a tombstone
	Cemetery Wall (photographs by Linda Cantor)

Cemeteries in Metropolitan New York City - There are several burial plots in the New York City area for the Chevra Ohev Shalom Anshei Bukaczowce. (Mt. Zion, Maspeth, NY, Mt. Hebron, Flushing, NY, and Beth Israel Cemetery, Woodbridge, NJ. ) Click here for more information.

Chevra Kaddisha Records Learn more about the Pinkas of the Chevra Kadisha of Bukachevtsy

Immigrants to the U.S. from Bukachevtsy

Landsmanshaftn in New York Look at the original incorporation papers for 3 Bukachevtsy organizations

Bukachevtsy Memorials - The descendants of Bukachevtsy remember and memorialize their families.

My experiences in Ukraine

Read the article which appeared in The Galitzianer, August 2001. The Galitzianer is a publication of Gesher Galicia, Special Interest Group for Galicia.

Read "Return to Galicia" Return to Galicia" from The Galitizianer, November 2007

Stories from Bukachevtsy- Share in the stories that people have sent us about Bukachevtsy

Documents

Bukachevtsy Documents

Landsmanshaftn dues notice 1951

Birth Records - 1861 - Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine, Lviv

JDC Documents - Holocaust survivors registered with JDC after World War II

School Records - 1926 - Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine, Lviv

Vital Records - Urzad Stanu Cywilnego (Civil Registration Office) - Warsaw

Polish Telephone Book - 1932/33

Polish Telephone Book - 1938 Read stories about some of the people in the telephone book

Polish Business Directory - 1929

Polish Business Directory - 1930 Read stories about some of the people in the Business Directory

Registration Card - 1946

Links to related genealogical sites

	Jewishgen
	Gesher Galicia
	Jewish History in Galicia and Bukovina
	KehillaLinks Directory
	Rohatyn Kehillalinks page
	JRI-Poland/Polish State Archives Project AGAD Archives Project - Join the Great Galician Indexing Race

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