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Bóbrka
(pronounced "BUbrika")
(Latitude 49°38´, Longitude 24°18´)
18 miles southeast of Lviv (Lvov, Lwow, Lemberg)

a.k.a. Bibrka, Boiberke, Prachnik, Boiberik*
(*misnomer from the fictional town in Shalom Alechem's stories)

View of Bóbrka, 1930s View of Bóbrka, 1990s

Ukraine, 1992

Maps

Political Map of Galicia Province (1882)

Galicia Administrative Districts (1906-1914) Map of Galicia divided into administrative districts noting the Polish/Ukrainian border that was to split the district after WWI.

Political Map of Ukraine (1993) (enlargement of above map)

Links to maps from everywhere

View Bóbrka's location today via MapQuest (Latitude 49°38´, Longitude 24°18´)

Searchable Databases

United States Holocaust Research Institute

JewishGen Family Finder:
Connect with others researching Bóbrka. Click the button to search the JewishGen Family Finder database and add the names you are searching if you haven't done so already.

Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
An index to over 900,000 19th-century Jewish birth, marriage and death records from over 150 Polish towns. Bóbrka records will soon be included! Follow the progress of our indexing at JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives Project

LDS Microfilm Master: Poland
Locate LDS microfilms of records from Poland, based on geographic coordinates.

Burial Societies in the New York Metro Area
Prepared by the Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc.

The 1891 Galicia Business Directory
Over 20,000 names from over 1,000 different towns throughout Galicia.

Lvov Ghetto Database
Names of over 10,000 Jews in the Ghetto of Lwów Poland, 1942-1945.

1890 New York Immigrants from Poland, Austria and Galicia
An index to over 44,000 passenger arrivals.

Memoirs, Travelogues and Family Stories

Israel Lotringer's trip back to his home town - A picture album
Have you visited Bóbrka? Do you have any family stories to share with us? Let us hear your and your family's experiences, past and present. Send any stories or photos you have to Bev Shulster for inclusion on these pages.

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