BUCZACZ
Buchach, Ukraine
Betshotsh - בעטשאָטש

Buczacz 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: Buchach, Buczacz, Betshotsh, Butschatsch [ger], Bucac [cz], Butchatch, Bitshutsh

SRRG Coordinator: Susana Leistner Bloch

Administrative District: Buczacz

Judicial / Tax District (Subdistrict): Buczacz

History and Geography:

In present day Ukraine, Buchach is in the Ternopilska Oblast (Region / Province). Buchach is the seat of the Buchatskyi Raion (County/ District). Buchach - The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe Buczacz - A Geographical Account, by M.Y. Braver Buczacz - Historical Background Buczacz - The Untold Stories. The Murder Sites of the Jews. Buczacz Origins --- "An account of the Jewish community of Buczacz, its history and society, culminating in its destruction during the Holocaust." Translated, edited and compiled by Martin Rudner. Buczacz Yizkor Book (Tel-Aviv, 1955 or 1956) - The entire Buczacz 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. History of the Jews in Buczacz, by Dr. N. M. Gelber The Buczacz Yizkor Book (Sefer Buczacz) translation project has been completed. The project was coordinated by Norbert Porile. The Yizkor Book is a valuable resource of information about Buczacz and its former residents. Many of the articles from the Yizkor Book are linked from this page but you can see the whole table of contents by clicking on the highlighted title above. The entire Buchach Yizkor Book was scanned by The New York Public Library, Dorot Jewish Division. World War II history. This account is quoted from Norman Davies (1996), Europe: A History, pp 1034-1035, Oxford University Press.

Jewish Cemetery:

IAJGS International Jewish Cemetery Project, Description of the Buczacz Jewish Cemetery Index of gravestones in Jewish Cemetery in Buczacz. This method is best if you are looking for gravestones that contain family surnames. After the gravestones have been translated, the index will be made available to the Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JGOWBR). Legible names transcribed in Latin letters on stones from the "New" Jewish Cemetery of Buczacz. Submitted by Eyal Ziffer Photo of Cemetery taken in June 2000, by Buz Hahn Photos of the Buczacz Cemetery taken in 2012, submitted by Boris Scharf

Maps:

3rd Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary showing Buczacz High resolution 1902 Austrian map of Buchach and its environs Higher resolution 1902 Austrian map of the immediate vicinity of Buchach. Map of Buchach of 1876 obtained from the Library of Congress marked G6480s75.A8 #4375 Street map of Buchach produced by Tom Weiss with the assistance of Alex Dunai.

Resources:

List of pupils who received a passing grade Buczacz Gimnazjum in the years 1936-37 The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Type in the name of your town.

Galicia Resources:

Logan J. Kleinwaks Galicia Genealogy Indexer

Gesher Galicia Resources:

All Galicia Database Gesher Galicia Cadastral Map Room

Faces:

Photos of unknown people, submitted by Robert Wodnicki The Frenkel - Fruchter Family

Biographies and Family Histories:

Sigmund Freud's Family Tree Summary of Alicia Appleman-Jurman's autobiography The Glaser Clan

Rabbis:

Rabbi Abraham David, by M. Buber Rabbi Abraham David, by Yekutiel Kamelbar Rabbi Meshulam Igra, by HaRav Y. L. Maimon Rabbi Shalom Mordechai HaCohen Schwadron, by Moshe Zinovitz

Memorable People:

About Several Figures in Our Town, by David Neuman [Neiman] Dr. Avraham Khalfan, by N[aftali] M[enatseyakh] Dr. Baruch (Bernard) Farnhof, by Dr. Y. Fernhof Dr. M. Hirschhorn Emanuel Ringelblum in the Warsaw Ghetto, by Nathan Eck Emanuel Ringelblum, by Meylekh Ravitsh Meir Fried, by Moshe Held Memorable Women, by Dr. D[avid] Pohorila My Brother Shmuel (Samuel), by Dr. M. Karniel[Hirshhorn] Outstanding Women in Our Town, by D. N. Rabbi Haim Weinraub, by Sh. M. Rabbi Yakov Leib Alfenbein, by Efraim Alfenbein Shlomo (Solomon) Dik, by G. Gafner Two Figures, by David Neuman [Neiman] Yitskhak Fernhof, by Israel Cohen

Memories, reminiscences, and anecdotes:

Family Memories, by William Fernhof Fragments, by Khaye Roll From the Days of My Youth, by Dr. Naftali Menatseyakh Gleanings, by Joseph Urbach

Institutions and Organizations:

From the Town's Life Dr. David Pohorila Histadrut Hechalutz in Buczacz, by Moshe Held Hospital and Old Age Home in Buczacz More about the Orphanage, by Dr. David Pohorila Synagogues in the Town, by David Neuman The First Hebrew School in Buczacz, by Baruch Y. Berkowitz The Jewish Health Organization, by Aryeh Roll The Orphanage, by Peppa Anderman-Neuberger WIZO, by Khaye Roll

Famous Sons and Daughters:

Abraham David ben Asher Anshel Buczacz, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alicia Appleman-Jurman, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia APPLEMAN-JURMAN, Alicia [submitted by Thomas Weiss]. Alicia Appleman-Jurman was living in Buczacz at the time of the German occupation and has written a compelling book to describe her survival in the face of great personal tragedy. Emanuel Ringlebaum, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mina POHORILLE, submitted by Cecil Rosner and Norbert Porile Mina Rosner, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shmuel Yosef Agnon, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shmuel Yosef AGNON, submitted by Norbert Porile Simon WIESENTHAL Simon Wiesenthal Simon Wiesenthal | Jewish Virtual Library Wolf Pohorille - A 19th Century Scholar, by Norbert Porile. Wolf POHORILLE, submitted by Norbert Porile

Righteous Gentiles:

Righteous Gentile: Gregory Baran

After emigration:

Activity of the New York Buczacz Jewish Welfare Society, by Abraham Zommer Among the multitude of Jewish congregations meeting up until 1921 on the Lower East Side of New York City were the Buczaczer Fist Chevrah at 223 E. 2nd Street and the Buczaczer Congregation at 228 E. Houston Street. Buczacz Jews in Vienna, by Ezekiel (Yekhezkl) Aderer Buczacz Landsmanshaftn (Including a list of burial society plots in the New York metropolitan area) People of the Book, by Israel Cohen The Buczacz Memorial Committee

Buczacz was the seat of the Buczacz Administrative District (AD).

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

• Buczacz
• Jaz?owiec
• Potok Z?oty
• Barysz
• Monasterzyska

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 Buczacz Administrative District:

Barysz, Beremiany, Jazłowiec, Kośmierzyn, Monasterzyska, Potok Złoty, Snowidów

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