KOPYCZYŃCE
Kopychintsy, Ukraine

Kopyczyńce 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: Kapischnitz, Kopachintsy, Kopichintsy, Kopitshinets, Koptehintz, Koptchintz, Kopycznce, Koyczyńice

Shtetl leader: Norman Greenfeld

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

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

    • Judicial / Tax District (Subdistrict): Kopyczyńce

    Location:
    • Latitude-Longitude: 49°06´ - 25°56´
    • Altitude: 1082 feet
    • 3.8 miles SE of Suchostaw
    • 34.8 miles SSE of Tarnopol
    • 13.0 miles W of Husiatyn
    Jewish Population before the Holocaust: 2471

    History and Geography:
    History and Geography - from the Yizkor book:
    Maps:
    Holocaust:
    Photos and Postcards:
    Articles:
    Travelogues:
    The People of Kopyczyńce:

    Faces:
    Biographies and Family Histories:
    Famous Sons and Daughters:
    • Grand Rabbi Mordechai Faivush (1834-18940), father-in-law of Grand Rabbi Yitzchok Meir Heschel.
    • Pinhas LAVON, submitted by Norman Greenfeld
    • Rabbi Yitzchak Meir HESCHEL, submitted by Abraham J. Heschel
    After emigration:
    • Kopyczynce Landsmanshaftn (Including a list of burial society plots in the New York metropolitan area)
    • Kopyczynce Society: The First Kopyczynzer Sick & Benevolent Society was founded in New York in 1895 by immigrants from Kopychintsy. The society was also known as Erste Kopyczyner Kranken Untershtitsung Verein. YIVO Record Group 970 contains cemetery records, correspondence and a Seal. The Society was dissolved in the 1970's.
    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 Kopyczyńce. 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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