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Kehila Bil'shivtsi
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Location: 49º11' N
24º45' E
Background: Bil'shivtsi Additional Background on the Town Name: By the time Bolszowce was renamed Bolshovtsy after World War II, there were only a handful of Jewish residents left in what once had been a vibrant, albeit small, Kehila. The community supported two synagogues and had access to a post office and railway station. For those who stayed and perished in the Shoah as well as those who left and recreated a Kehila on the Lower East Side of New York and elsewhere, Bolszowce, or Bolshevitz in Yiddish, was the only town they knew. Larger Towns Within a 20 Mile Radius: Burshtyn [Bursztyn] (8 miles NW), Rohatyn [Rogatin] (17 miles NNW), Ivano-Frankivsk [Stanislawów] (19 miles S), and Berezhany [Brzeżany] (20 miles NNE) 
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