CHOROSTKÓW
Khorostkov, Ukraine

Chorostków 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: Chorostkov, Khoroskiv, Khorostkiv, Khorostkuv, Khroshev

Shtetl leader: Robert Latzer

SRRG Coordinator: Susana Leistner Bloch

Administrative District: Husiatyn, or Kopyczynce - depending on the time period

  • Chorostków belonged to the Kopyczynce Administrative District (Powiat) only during the interwar years (1918 -1939)

    • Judicial / Tax District (Subdistrict): Kopyczyńce, or Chorostków - depending on the time period

    Location:
    • Latitude-Longitude: 49°14´ - 25°55´
    • Altitude: 1013 feet
    • 7.3 miles NNE of Suchostaw
    • 26.5 miles SE of Tarnopol
    • 17.8 miles NW of Husiatyn
    • 9.2 miles N of Kopyczyńce
    Jewish Population before the Holocaust: 1,979

    History and Geography:
    • In present day Ukraine, Khorostkov is in the Ternopilska Oblast (Region / Province) and in the Husiatynskyi County / District.
    • Chorostków Yizkor Book (Tel-Aviv, 1968) - The entire Chorostków Yizkor Book was scanned and all the pages can be viewed in the original format. With Permission of The New York Public Library, Dorot Jewish Division.
    • The History of Chorostkow and Its Jews, by Dr N.M. Gelber
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    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. This is a multiple database search facility, which incorporates all of the databases listed below. The “All Poland Database” enables researchers to find indices to vital and related records from the independent JRI-Poland database as well as entries from other databases. The combined databases have entries for individuals living in areas now or formerly in Poland. . It includes the following databases: JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF), Yizkor Book Necrologies, JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR), JewishGen Holocaust Database, The 1891 Galicia Business Directory, 1890-1891 New York Immigrants from Poland, Austria and Galicia and much more. The database is a work in progress, and new entries are being added regularly.
    • 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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