Zalosce, Ukraine (Galicia)
also known as Zalozcy, Zalozce
and (particularly in older Jewish sources) Zalozitz
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Sign at entrance to town of Zalosce
Photo courtesy of Israel Pickholz
Location
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Zalosce is located at coordinates 4947N 2522E, in East Galicia.
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61 miles E of Lvov
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19 miles NW of Ternopol
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23 miles SE of Brody
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This area was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Galicia), later the
eastern
part of Poland and today Western Ukraine.
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See a small
map (165 km from west to east) of the Zalosce region.
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See a larger
map (265 km from west to east) of the whole Zalosce area.
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Zalosce is very close to the town of Podkamen ( for which there is another shtetlinks page)
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1895 description of Zalozce from Slownik Geograficzny
Krolestwa Polskiego, Vol. XIV, pp. 354-5, Warsaw 1895. Translated by:
Rose Szczech, Polish Genealogy
Society of America (Mar 1998)
History
Pictures etc.
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JewishGen Family Finder
Do you have roots in Zalosce? Would you like to connect with others researching the
same community? Click the button to search the JewishGen Family Finder database for
Zalosce.
Related links
For further reading
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Pinkas Kehillot (Poland B), published by Yad
VaShem (in Hebrew)
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Encyclopedia Judaica, volume Z, page
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Simon Wiesenthal Museum of tolerance Multimedia Learning Center motlc.wiesenthal.com
Contacts
Please feel free to e-mail me about
anything concerning Zalosce. If you just want to talk about Zalosce,
or
if you have relatives from Zalosce, or you just want to verify that
someone is maintaining this page. Don't
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stories that you might have about Zalosce, or see any photographs you
might have. So, send me an e-mail
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Page compiled by Jim Stein.
(Please send comments, suggestions and new material.)
Research and translation performed by Israel
Pickholtz.
| Initial Creation: | 19 July 1999 |
| major update: | 18 September 2000 |
| last updated: | 12 June 2003 |
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