Bukachevsty, Ukraine

Bukachevtsy, Ukraine

(Bukaczowce, Bukotchovitz, Bukashevitz, Bukashivtsi)

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This small town, near Ivano-Frankivsk (Stanislow), is my maternal grandmother's ancestral shtetl. With this page, I wish to pay my respects to her and her family, to those I knew and those I did not, to those who came to America and to those who remained behind and perished in the Holocaust.
	There is a new sign for Bukachevtsy, certainly an improvement.
Sign in photo by Bruce Berrol, taken in 2019

I visited Bukachevtsy in May 2001 and again in June 2007. There's not much left to tell you that Bukachevtsy once had a sizable Jewish population. There are no Jews and practically no Jewish buildings. Even the cemetery was largely destroyed. The Jews of Bukachevtsy exist only in our memories. If you have memories to share or ties to Bukachevtsy, please contact me. (Linda Cantor)

synagogue 2007 Remains of Bukachevtsy's synagogue, June 2007

Published References and Resources

Where Once We Walked by Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Sack, Avotaynu, 1991

Bukachevtsy,Ukr. (Bukaczowce. Bukotchovitz, Bukashevitz); pop. 733; 82 km SE of Lvov' 49° 15’ 24° 30’

COH - Chamber of the Holocaust
EGRS - Encyclopedia of Galician Rabbis and Scholars
GUM3 - Guide to Unpublished Materials of the Holocaust Period
JGFF - Jewish Genealogical Family Finder
LDL - Latter Day Leaders, Sages and Scholars
PHP2 - Pinkas Hakehillot Poland, Vol 2 Eastern Galicia
SF - Shtetl Finder
YB - Yiskor Books

Jewishgen Family Finder

Bukachevtsy's Place in History

Holocaust in Bukachevtsy Click here for more information on the Holocaust in Bukachevtsy

Click here for a list of Holocaust victims (from Yad Vashem pages of testimony)
Click here to read personal recollections of a Bukachevtsy survivor. "Threads of Memory"
Click here to see a list of people listed in the Project Heart database
Click here to see a list of those who survived the Holocaust in Bukachevtsy
Click here to learn more about the Holocaust by Bullets website
Click here to see a list of Bukachevtsy residents and recorded Holocaust records

Jewish Community of Bukachivtsi - Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot

Map of Bukachevtsy - map of Bukachevtsy as remembered by Sol Mandel

Photograph Album - Visit with our Bukachevtsy families. And please contact your webmaster if you have any photos to share.


Bukachevtsy before the World War II	Photos courtesy of Tomasz Kiny

Yiskor Book - Click here to see a translation of the "Bukaczowce" chapter from Pinkas Hakehillot Polin


Bukachevtsy May 2001

Bukachevtsy June 2007	Photos by Linda Cantor

Cemetery in Bukachevtsy

The cemetery, which still stood relatively intact at the end of World War II (by eyewitness account of survivors), was destroyed by the Soviet Union. The ground is mostly empty and there are a few remnants of tombstones left. But the undergrowth is so heavy that it is all but impossible to know exactly what remains.

Several years ago we arranged to complete a fence around the cemetery. Unfortunately the fence is now being knocked down by overgrowth of trees and bushes. Please contact the webmaster if you are interested in more information and in contributing to this effort.


Bukachevtsy Cemetery	Remains of a tombstone

Cemetery Wall 2007	Cemetery Wall 2019 (photo courtesy of Bruce Berrol)

Cemeteries in Metropolitan New York City

There are several burial plots in the New York City area for the Chevra Ohev Shalom Anshei Bukaczowce. (Mt. Zion, Maspeth, NY, Mt. Hebron, Flushing, NY, and Beth Israel Cemetery, Woodbridge, NJ. ) Click here for more information.

Immigrants to the U.S. from Bukachevtsy - Landsmanshaftn in New York - Look at the orginal incorporations papers for 3 Bukachevtsy organizations.

Bukachevtsy Memorials - Click here to see some memorials written about Bukachevtsy

Chevra Kaddisha Records - Click here to learn more about the Pinkas of the Chevra Kadisha of Bukachevtsy

My Experiences in Ukraine - Read articles from 2001 and 2007

Stories from Bukachevtsy - Click here to read stories shared by our viewers

Records from Bukachevsty

	Landsmanshaftn dues notice 1951
	Birth Records AGAD, the Archiwum Glowne Akt Dawnych (The Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw)
	JDC Documents - Holocaust survivors registered with JDC after World War II
	School Records - 1926 - Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine, Lviv
	Vital Records - Urzad Stanu Cywilnego (Civil Registration Office) - Warsaw
	Polish Telephone Book - 1932/33
	Polish Telephone Book - 1938 Read stories about some of the people in the telephone book
	Polish Business Directory - 1929
	Polish Business Directory - 1930 Read stories about some of the people in the Business Directory
	Registration Card - 1946

Links to Related Genealogical Sites

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Gesher Galicia

Rohatyn Kehilalinks Page

JRI-Poland Polish State Archives Agad Project

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Site last updated: Oct 7 2021

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