CHOROSTKÓW
Khorostkov, Ukraine

Chorostków 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: Chorostkov, Khoroskiv, Khorostkiv, Khorostkuv, Khroshev

Shtetl leader: Robert Latzer

Administrative District: Husiatyn, or Kopyczynce - depending on the time period

  • Chorostków belonged to the Kopyczynce Administrative District (Powiat) only during the interwar years (1918 -1939)

    • Judicial / Tax District (Subdistrict): Kopyczyńce, or Chorostków - depending on the time period

    Location:
    • Latitude-Longitude: 49°14´ - 25°55´
    • Altitude: 1013 feet
    • 7.3 miles NNE of Suchostaw
    • 26.5 miles SE of Tarnopol
    • 17.8 miles NW of Husiatyn
    • 9.2 miles N of Kopyczyńce
    Jewish Population before the Holocaust: 1979

    History and Geography:
    • In present day Ukraine, Khorostkov is in the Ternopilska Oblast (Region / Province) and in the Husiatynskyi County / District.
    • Chorostków Yizkor Book (Tel-Aviv, 1968) - The entire Chorostków 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.
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    Holocaust:
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    Articles:
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    After emigration:
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    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 Chorostków. 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.

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    Compiled by Susana Leistner Bloch and Edward Rosenbaum.

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