KACZANÓWKA
Kachanovka, Ukraine

Kaczanówka 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: Kacaniuvka, Kochanovka

SRRG Coordinator: Susana Leistner Bloch

Administrative District: Skalat

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

Location:
  • Latitude-Longitude: 48°28´ - 26°07´
  • Altitude: 977 feet
  • 25.6 miles NNE of Suchostaw
  • 24.6 miles ESE of Tarnopol
  • 6.4 miles ENE of Skałat
  • 4.8 miles SSW of Podwołoczyska
Jewish Population before the Holocaust: 22

History and Geography:
  • In present day Ukraine Kachanovka is in the Ternopilska Oblast (Region / Province).
Maps:
Holocaust - from the Yizkor book:
The People of Kaczanówka:

Righteous Gentiles:
  • The title of "Righteous Among Nations" was bestowed by Yad Vashem, of the State of Israel, to Piotr BUDNIK. Piotr owned a farm in Kaczanowka. He managed to free from the ghetto the three HELRAJCH children: Adela, Estera and Zeew and hid them for 18 months. Estera and Zeev fell ill with typhoid fever and Piotr took them to the forest and took care of them there. He himself caught typhus and got meningitis. All survived. After the war he married Adela and left with her for Israel.
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 Kaczanówka. 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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