BUCZACZ
Buchach, Ukraine

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: Bitshutsh, Bugach, Butchatch

Shtetl leader: Norbert Porile

Administrative District: Buczacz

Judicial / Tax District (Subdistrict): Buczacz

Location:
  • Latitude-Longitude: 49°05´ - 25°24´
  • Altitude: 1207 feet
  • 21.4 miles W of Suchostaw
  • 33.3 miles SSW of Tarnopol
Jewish Population before the Holocaust: 3858

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).
  • Buczacz Coat of Arms and Short Description/History
  • 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 Buchach --- an excerpt from the Encyclopedia Judaica on Buchach. Click on "Text" to get details.
  • World War II history. This account is quoted from Norman Davies (1996), Europe: A History, pp 1034-1035, Oxford University Press.
History and Geography - from the Yizkor book:
Maps:
Resources - from the Yizkor book:
  • 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.
Holocaust:
Holocaust - from the Yizkor book:
Photos and Postcards:
Articles:
  • I Am A Witness, by Mina Rosner. Mina Pohorille Rosner was born in Buchach in 1913 and lived there the first 32 years of her life. She was one of the few Jews who survived the German occupation of Buchach in World War II. This book is the story of her survival. Read the Foreword and Chapter 1 here. For more information about the book contact her son Cecil Rosner.
  • Wolf Pohorille - A 19th Century Scholar, by Norbert Porile
Articles - from the Yizkor book:
Travelogues:
The People of Buczacz:

Faces:
Biographies and Family Histories - from the Yizkor book:
Rabbis - from the Yizkor book:
Memorable People - from the Yizkor book:
Memories, reminiscences, and anecdotes - from the Yizkor book:
Institutions and Organizations - from the Yizkor book:
Famous Sons and Daughters:
  • 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.
  • Mina POHORILLE, submitted by Cecil Rosner and Norbert Porile
  • Shmuel Yosef AGNON, submitted by Norbert Porile
  • Simon WIESENTHAL
  • Wolf POHORILLE, submitted by Norbert Porile
After emigration:
  • 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 Landsmanshaftn (Including a list of burial society plots in the New York metropolitan area)
After emigration - from the Yizkor book:
BUCZACZ ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICT (AD):
Buczacz was the seat of the Buczacz Administrative District (AD).

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

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
Links and Databases:

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

  • the All Poland Database for Buczacz. 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.
  • the All Poland Database for any surname or town.
  • the "Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation Eastern European Archival Database" to see where some vital records are.
  • for on the Internet.

  • the JewishGen Yizkor Book Database.

Other Links:

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