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This website was created by Phyllis Kramer z"l in 1999 'in loving
memory of those who lived and died in Rohatyn, of those who
ventured out, and especially those who left that legacy for us,
their descendants.' Phyllis maintained this website until
her passing in 2019. She spent a tremendous amount of work
and effort into creating this site. As a seasoned
genealogist, Phyllis provided content including many resources and
data regarding the town of Rohatyn. She also reached out to
other descendants of Rohatyners for photos and stories about their
ancestors. Since her passing, broken links and new
Kehilalinks policies necessitated an update to the site. As
much of Phyllis' original content has been preserved in web pages
linked at the top of this web page. The site was adopted in
May of 2026 by Alexander Feller who can be contacted via email at
rohatynshtetl@gmail.com.
1. JEWISHGEN:
Become a free member of the primary website for Jewish genealogy
and add the surnames and towns you are researching to the JewishGen Family Finder so
you can connect with other members performing similar
research. Be sure to subscribe to the JewishGen.org
Discussion Group to send and receive questions and advice
from fellow members. Search hundreds of databases at JewishGen's
Unified Search page. Gather information about your ancestral
home by looking up your the town name in the JewishGen
Communities Database which includes the Locality
Page For Rohatyn.
2. JEWISH RECORDS INDEXING
- POLAND: Available birth, marriage, and death records
from 1859 to 1942 for the Jewish community of Rohatyn and
surrounding communities have been indexed by JRI-Poland.
Using the JRI-Poland
Legacy Search Page, enter the surname of interest to find
the number hits in various regions (Gubernia/Wojewodztwo) that
existed in Poland throughout the years. Rohatyn was located
in the Stanisławów Wojewodztwo so click on that category to view
indexed records grouped by town. Vital records grouped under
Rohatyn also contain those events that occurred in neighboring
towns like Stratyn, Knihynicze, Bursztyn, and Podkamien.
Most records in the index have a link to an image of the original
archived record.
3. GESHER GALICIA:
Gesher Galicia performs Jewish genealogical and historical
research covering the area under the former province of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire which now encompasses Western Ukraine and
Southern Poland. Gesher Galicia has carried out a number of
various projects
and has collected data from vital records, index books, landowner
records, school records, and NKVD records to name a few. All
this data has been uploaded to the All
Galicia Database (AGD) where it is searchable by name, town,
house number, year, archive, and/or keyword. When you become
a member of Gesher Galicia, you have access to a scan of the
original document. The contents of the AGD can be found here.
The Gesher Galicia website also contains a Record Inventory
listing the archival location of various records for a Galician
town. If you are unsure how to spell the name of your town
as it was known during the reign of the Austro-Hungarian Empire,
search their Town
Locator to obtain the correct spelling and district where it
was located. Gesher Galicia also maintains a communities
section for towns researched by members including a web page for Rohatyn.
4. ROHATYN DISTRICT RESEARCH GROUP: This group is
comprised of over 300 genealogists whom all have Jewish ancestry
from Rohatyn or from close neighboring towns. To be included
in the group's email discussion forum, you can request to join the
RDRG for free by emailing your ancestral surname from the Rohatyn
area and a brief family history to rohatynshtetl@gmail.com
This a great way to connect with others who might share a familial
connection to you and to receive news and information relevant to
Rohatyn area research.
5. ROHATYN
JEWISH HERITAGE: Learn about Marla and Jay Osborn's
project to maintain and preserve Jewish heritage sites in Rohatyn
and to educate Jewish and non-Jewish researchers about Rohatyn's
400 year history. Existing sites of Jewish heritage in
Rohatyn include the Old
Jewish Cemetery, the New
Jewish Cemetery, and sites
of the mass graves. Of special importance, discover
their project to recover
Jewish gravestones found in locations throughout Rohatyn and
to bring them back to the Old Jewish Cemetery.
6. ROHATYNDRG.ORG:
This website is a culmination of resources collected over the past
two decades of performing genealogical research for families
originating from Rohatyn. Find links to resources based on country or topic. View a
summary of different types of records associated with Jewish
Rohatyn and where they might exist on the Data and Records
web page. You can also find information about your relatives in
various other documents associated with Rohatyn like directories,
property
records, student
lists, World War One
records, and Holocaust
records. Members of the Rohatyn District Research Group also have
access to a Members
Portal on the site where family trees and links to family
photos are stored.
7. THE ROHATYN YIZKOR BOOK: This roughly 400-page
book written by Rohatyners and Holocaust survivors in the 1960s
presents the history of Rohatyn and stories about Jewish families
and individuals. The book was written mainly in Yiddish with a
small section in English and includes a large amount of
photographs. The book is a treasure trove of information and
a necessary read for anyone researching their family from
Rohatyn. The book can be viewed in its original Yiddish form
online at the NYPL
Yizkor Book Collection. JewishGen's Yizkor Book
Project translated the Rohatyn Yizkor Book to English which
is available to read
online (though without photos) on their site. Donia Gold
Shwarzstein, a Holocaust Survivor from Rohatyn, took the lead from
Rohatyn societies to publish the translated version in print and
included photos from the original plus additional stories and
photos donated since its original publication. This 658-page
book named 'Remembering Rohatyn and its Environs' can be purchased
through Amazon.com.
8. BURIALS
AND CEMETERIES ASSOCIATED WITH ROHATYN:
Landsmanshaften, mutual aid societies created for the benefit of
immigrants from specific towns, provided burial plots for their
members. There were five known landsmanshaften societies
benefiting immigrants from Rohatyn in the New York area, of which
two provided burial plots in local cemeteries. The Independent
Rohatyner Young Mens Benevolent Association has burial
society plots at Beth Israel Cemetery in Woodbridge, NJ and at Old
Montefiore Cemetery in Queens, NY. The Rohatyner
Young Mens Society has burial society plots at Mt. Zion
Cemetery in Maspeth, NY and at Mt. Hebron Cemetery in Flushing,
NY. The JewishGen
Online World Burial Registry includes information on burials
at these society plots on their website. In association with
Rohatyn Jewish Heritage, Jewish
Stones UA recently released its database of Rohatyn's Recovered
Jewish Headstones including images and English translation
of the headstones. Check it out!
9. MAPS OF ROHATYN: Gesher Galicia's Map Room hosts the 1846
Cadastral Map of Rohatyn and the Rohatyn
Interactive Data Map 1846. Correlate house numbers found on
vital records and on voter
records with house numbers found on the map to locate where
in Rohatyn your family lived. Other maps of Rohatyn can be found
on RohatynDRG's Geography
web page and on Rohatyn Jewish Heritage's Mapping
Rohatyn web page.
10. HOLOCAUST RECORDS: Research victims and survivors of
the Holocaust in Rohatyn on JewishGen's
Holocaust Database and on the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum site. Some collections on
the USHMM site have been indexed and are searchable on Ancestry.com.
Other Holocaust related documents on individuals can be found on
the Arolsen Archives
website while testimonies and lists of victims of the Holocaust
are found on the Yad Vashem
website.
The cemetery photograph above was donated by Howard Steinmetz
z"l. Howard said: "This photo was taken in the Jewish
Cemetery in Rohatyn in 1918 by my father. I have seen a photo
taken by a recent visitor from a similar prospective; the stones
are all gone, the trees are all gone; only the church spires in
the background are still there, along with our blessed memories
of the Jewish Community."
This page is hosted at no cost to the public by
JewishGen, Inc., a non-profit corporation.
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Your contribution would be deeply appreciated.
Compiled by Phyllis Kramer z"l (1999-2019) and Alexander Feller
(2026-)
Last Update: June 1, 2026
Copyright © 1998 Phyllis Kramer z"l