BORSZCZÓW
Borshchiv, Ukraine

Borszczów is included in the Suchostaw Region Research Group (SRRG).  Shtetlach were interwoven together like a tapestry and the Jewish people of neighboring shtetlach linked by marriages, trade and marketing.  They shared schools, cemeteries, kosher butchers, bakers and more.  Smaller shtetlach registered their birth, marriages and death in a nearby larger shtetl.  One should research the neighboring area as well as an individual shtetl.  The SRRG web site has resources and information that is relevant to many shtetlach.  To search for family links and learn more about neighboring shtetlach, please visit the Suchostaw Region Research Group (SRRG).

Variant shtetl names: Berchev, Bershchev, Borshchëv, Borschev, Borschiv, Borschow, Borshchuv, Borshov, Borshtchev, Borszczow, Borszow, Proszowa

Shtetl leader: Tony Hausner

SRRG Coordinator: Susana Leistner Bloch

Administrative District: Borszczów

Judicial / Tax District (Subdistrict): Borszczów

Location:
  • Latitude-Longitude: 48°48´ - 26°03´
  • Altitude: 938 feet
  • 24.5 miles SSE of Suchostaw
  • 55.9 miles SSE of Tarnopol
Jewish Population before the Holocaust: 1,656

History and Geography:
Maps:
Resources:
  • 1929 business directory (coming soon)
Holocaust:
Photos and Postcards:
Articles:
The People of Borszczów:

Faces:
People remembered:
After emigration:
  • Borszczów Landsmanshaft (Including a list of burial society plots in the New York metropolitan area) . The Erste Borszczower Kranken Untershtitsung Verein [The First Borchover Sick Benefit Society] was founded in 1897. The aim of the society was to support sick and needy members and establish 'brotherly friendship and behavior amongst its members'. Landsmanshaftn, including the Erste Borszczower Kranken Unt. Verein provided social and economic services and support for their members. In 1989, the Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (New York) began an effort to identify the names and cemetery locations of all Jewish burial society plots in the New York metropolitan area. These include plots of landsmanshaftn, synagogues, family circles, fraternal organizations and labor unions. The following Borszczów Landsmanshaft plots are listed:
    • Erste Borszczower Kranken Unt. Verein - Mt. Zion - Path 15 Left, Gate 5
    • Erste Borszczower Kranken Unt. Verein - Beth El (Westwood) - Block 13
    • Erste Borszczower Kranken Unt. Verein - Beth David (Elmont) - Section AA, Block 3
  • The Borchover Landsmanshaft in New York
Parnassa [Livelihood] - Making a Living:
Institutions, Organizations and Places of Learning:
Customs and Traditions:
BORSZCZÓW ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICT (AD):
Borszczów was the seat of the Borszczów Administrative District (AD).

The Borszczów AD included the following Judicial / Tax Districts (JD):

Changes in ADs and JDs occurred during different periods of time. ADs and JDs were designated by the Austrian Government in 1877 for the purpose of collecting Jewish birth, marriage and death records. By 1906 and until 1914. (the end of Austrian rule) new ADs and JD's were added and / or changed. A further change occurred during the interwar years (1918 -1939). This is reflected here and on the shtetl pages included in the Suchostaw Region Research Group. You will notice that, at times, more than one AD or JD is listed for a shtetl with the note: 'depending on the time period'.

Information about Administrative Districts can be found on our website. It is important for the Genealogist / Family Historian researching towns in what was formerly Galicia to understand the differences due to time periods and other factors that resulted in the changes in Administrative Districts.

The following shtetlach belonged to the Borszczów Administrative District:

Bilcze, Cygany, Jezierzany, Korolówka, Łanowce, Łosiacz, Mielnica, Okopy, Skała, Wołkowce ad Borszczów
Links and Databases:

When searching the links below, please remember that many towns in Ukraine have the same name. Make sure that the information you find refers to the shtetl you are researching.

  • the All Poland Database for Borszczów. The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland and JewishGen "All Poland Database" is a multiple database search facility, which incorporates all of the following databases: JRI -Poland, Yizkor Book Necrologies, JewishGen Family Finder )JGFF), JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR), 1891 Galicia Business Directory, 1929 Polish Business Directory, 1890-1891 New York Immigrants from Poland, Austria and Galicia, JG Discussion Group Archives, SIG Mailing List Archives and much much more.
  • the All Poland Database for any surname or town.
  • the "Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation Eastern European Archival Database" to see where some vital records are.
  • for on the Internet.

  • the JewishGen Yizkor Book Database.

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Compiled by Susana Leistner Bloch and Edward Rosenbaum.

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