Tyczyn, Poland

Tyczyn is included in the Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (KRRG). 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 KRRG 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 Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (KRRG).

Shtetl Variant names:  Tichin

Administrative District:  Rzeszów

Subdistrict - Judicial / Tax District:  Tyczyn

Location:

• 22.9 miles SSE of Kolbuszowa
• 5.9 miles SSE of  Rzeszów  
• Latitude  49°58’  Longitude  22°02’

Jewish Population before the Holocaust:  957

History/Geography:

• The community consisted of the town Tyczyn and villages: Biala, Budziwój, Borek, Stary, Hermanowa, Kielnarowa and Matysówka 

• Tyczyn had two synagogues.  The Jewish cemetery in Tyczyn was used by the Jews of Tyczyn as well as Jews from the nearby villages.
  

• Brief history of Tyczyn.  Written and submitted by George Salton : 

Berhold Tyczner,  a merchant from Moravia,  founded Tyczyn in 1368 during the rein of king Kazimir the Great.  Jews migrated into the area during the XV and XVI centuries. 

Tyczyn was located in the lower Carpathian foothills,  about half way between the two large towns of Krakow to the west and Lwow (Lemberg) to the east.  The center of town was on top of a hill surrounded by numerous farming villages. To the north of  town was the River Stryj.  

The town grew and dominated the area until the mid 16 hundreds when it was destroyed first by a Tartar and later by a Cossack invasion.  During the years 1792 to 1918 Tyczyn and the southern part of Poland known as Galicia became part of the Austrian- Hungarian Empire.   During those years the area of Tyczyn came under administrative control of Rzeszow,  a larger town and a county seat, some eight miles north of Tyczyn. 

• In present day Poland Tyczyn is in the Podkarpackie Province (Województwo).  County (Powiat): Rzeszow.  Rural Administrative District (Gmina): Tyczyn

Maps:

• Topographical Map showing Tyczyn

Holocaust:

• World War II came to Tyczyn in September 1939...   Written and submitted by George Salton

• Mention of Tyczyn in the Rzeszow Yizkor Book [ Page 322 -3225 -During the Nazi occupation] 

 Resources:

• The 1929 Business Directory
• The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.  Type in the name of your town.
• Jewish Records Indexing - Poland and JewishGen “All Poland Database”.This is a multiple database search facility, 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 more than 6.75 million entries for individuals living in areas now or formerly in Poland.  The database is a work in progress, and new entries are being added regularly.  http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Poland/ 

• Logan J. Kleinwaks Galicia Genealogy Indexer

Photos & Postcards:

• Photos of Tyczyn taken in 1998.  Submitted by George Salton.
• Photos of the Tyczyn Cemetery.  Courtesy of Gedeon.

Articles:

• Tyczyn, my shtetl Tyczyn, the little town where my home was, where my family lived, where I spent my childhood years…Written and submitted by George Salton.
• The Tyczyn Sukkah - Translated by Jeffrey M. Green.

Books:

• The 23^rd Psalm: George Lucius Salton with Anna Salton Eisen

The People of Tyczyn:

   Faces:

   Biographies:

• The Saltzman Family.  Written and submitted by George Salton (Saltzman). 

   Memories,  Reminiscences and Anecdotes

• People and Names I Remember. Written and submitted by George Salton

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

Search for Tyczyn. 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. Search for any surname and /or town. the "Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation Eastern European Archival Database" to see where some vital records are.