JEZIERZANY
Ozeryany, Ukraine

Jezierzany 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: Jezersany, Ozieran, Yezerzhany, Yezezhany, Yezierne, Yezyerzany

SRRG Coordinator: Susana Leistner Bloch

Administrative District: Borszczów

Judicial / Tax District (Subdistrict): Skała, or Borszczów - depending on the time period

Location:
  • Latitude-Longitude: 48°53´ - 25°57´
  • Altitude: 905 feet
  • 17.7 miles SSE of Suchostaw
  • 48.9 miles SSE of Tarnopol
  • 7.3 miles NW Borszczów
  • 11.6 miles WNW of Skała
Jewish Population before the Holocaust: 1302

History and Geography:
  • In present day Ukraine, Ozeryany is in the Ternopilska Oblast (Region / Province) and in Borshchivskyi Raion (County/ District).
  • Jezierzany Yizkor Book (Jerusalem, 1959) - The entire Jezierzany 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.
  • Surnames of Jezierzany’s Holocaust Victims - Transliterated from the Jezierzany Yizkor Book Necrology by Renee Steinig.
History and Geography - from the Yizkor book:
Maps:
Resources:
Holocaust:
The People of Jezierzany:

Faces:
Memories, reminiscences, and anecdotes:
  • Esther Vellya yelling at the chickens. Submitted by Alison Blackman Dunham

    I remember one very quick story that my grandmother Tillie (Taube) Stempler Bader used to tell me about her life in the shtetl. She said that there was a demented or retarded woman named Esther Vellya (not sure if the last name is spelled correctly, but that is how it sounded). The community supported their own. She used to tell us that everyone worked. Esther had a "job" too (not a joke...everyone had to do something). Esther's job was to yell at the chickens on the roof. She did it constantly .and well. When we would get hysterical and cry or yell, she'd tell us we sounded like Esther Vellya. The implication was clear...!

After emigration:
Success Stories - genealogical successes made through SRRG and JGFF:
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 Jezierzany. 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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