Town overview

Modern town name: Borshchiv, Ukraine
Latitude and Longitude: 48.8000, 26.0500
48°48' N , 26°03' E
Galician (Austro-Hungarian) Administrative District: Borszczów
Galician (Austro-Hungarian) Judicial District: Borszczów
Jewish Kehilla (Community) District: Borszczów
Interwar (Polish) District: Borszczów
Interwar (Polish) Province: Tarnopol
Modern District (county or raion): Borshchiv raion
Modern Province (voivodeship or oblast): Ternopil oblast

Map of Borshchiv

Families from Borshchiv

There are 9 members of Gesher Galicia researching 18 surnames from Borshchiv:

Here are the 3 most recent records.

Family name Researcher Researcher's Location Date Added
MULLER GG Member Gaithersburg, MD
USA
May 25, 2020
STEINIG GG Member Dix Hills, NY
USA
Aug 26, 2019

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Cadastral Maps and Landowner Records from Borshchiv

The following is a list of records and maps that Gesher Galicia has cataloged at the archives in Lviv, Ukraine. In some cases, copies of these files have been obtained, transcribed, and put online in our All-Galicia Database (AGD).

Place Admin. District Item Type Year Description Archive Info Status
Borshchiv (Borszczow) Borszczow
(Chortkiv okr.)
Text 1859-1891 Book of lands & landowners. Lviv Archives:
186-1-8206
Not Yet Examined
Borshchiv (Borszczow) Borszczow
(Chortkiv okr.)
Text XIX century Book of lands including their categories. Lviv Archives:
186-1-8207
Not Yet Examined
Borshchiv (Borszczow) Borszczow
(Chortkiv okr.)
Text 1826-1859 Book of lands & houses. List of landowners. Lviv Archives:
186-1-8208
Not Yet Examined

Books about Borshchiv

Yizkor books for Borshchiv

There is at least one known Yizkor book about Borshchiv: "The book of Borstchoff" ("Sefer Borszczow") , published in 1960 in Tel Aviv.

The JewishGen website has an English translation of this book available online. You can read the original book online at the New York Public Library website, or you can find a copy in a library near you through the free library search website WorldCat.

There may also be other Yizkor books published that cover , or larger nearby towns, or the region in which it was located; check JewishGen's Yizkor Books database for the latest details.

About Yizkor books

A Yizkor book is a "book of remembrance" about a Jewish community that was destroyed in the Holocaust. Each book documents the town's history and usually gives a necrology (list of the murdered) at the back of the book. Most of the books were written by survivors from the town, or people from the town who had immigrated before the war, and were mostly published between 1945 and 1975, and usually written in Hebrew or Yiddish. Some large towns may have had more than one Yizkor book published at different times.

The non-profit Jewish genealogy organization JewishGen has a comprehensive online database of Yizkor books and the towns that they document. They also host English language translations of much of the content of the books, sponsored by the website's donors and volunteers.

Many of these books have been scanned and put online for free reading at the New York Public Library's Yizkor Book website. The Yiddish Book Center also offers reprints of Yizkor Books which you can buy on their website.

 

Gesher Galicia is a non-profit organization carrying out Jewish genealogical and historical research on Galicia, formerly a province of Austria-Hungary and today divided between southeastern Poland and western Ukraine. The research work includes the indexing of archival vital records and census books, Holocaust-period records, Josephine and Franciscan cadastral surveys, lists of Jewish taxpayers, and records of Galician medical students and doctors - all added to our searchable online database. In addition, we reproduce regional and cadastral maps for our online Map Room. We conduct educational research and publish a quarterly research journal, the Galitzianer. Gesher Galicia is also organized for the purpose of maintaining networking and online discussion groups and to promote and support Jewish heritage preservation work in the areas of the former Galicia.

You can search our free All Galicia Database, Map Room, and archival inventories, and read about member benefits starting at $50 per year. You can also join online.

Our general contact address: info@geshergalicia.org