# Bychawa <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">בעכעװע</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Bychawa (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lublin Voivodeship, Lublin County, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51.0167 22.5333</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>to 1795</td><td>Bychawa</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — Lublin Voivodeship (Magdeburg rights 1537)</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1809</td><td>Bychawa</td><td>Austrian partition</td></tr> <tr><td>1809–1815</td><td>Bychawa</td><td>Duchy of Warsaw — Lublin Department</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1918</td><td>Bychawa</td><td>Congress Poland / Russian Empire — Lublin Governorate</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Bychawa</td><td>Second Polish Republic — Lublin Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Bychawa</td><td>German occupation — General Government (Lublin District)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Bychawa</td><td>Poland — Lublin Voivodeship, Lublin County</td></tr> </table> ## Overview In 1537 King Sigismund I the Old granted Bychawa Magdeburg town rights and two annual fairs. A Jewish presence is documented from 1578, with an independent kehilla by the late 16th century; it was decimated in the Khmelnytsky uprising (1648–49) and revived in the 18th century, building a synagogue in 1810 (rebuilt 1899). By 1900 Jews were ~2,294 of 2,800 inhabitants (≈81%). Under German occupation a ghetto was created in Dec 1940, and in October 1942 the Jews were deported to the Bełżyce ghetto and on to Sobibór and Majdanek. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Bychawa, Teatr NN — Bychawa the shtetl, JewishGen</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Maryanka Wolwowa (b.1759)]] | Born 1759–1768 | | [[Aron Goldfarb (b.1794)]] | Born 1794–1798 | | [[Chana (b.1722)]] | Died 11/15/1798 | | [[Rafael Hochman (b.1804)]] | Born 1804, Died 02/15/1806 | | [[Dwojra Jenta Goldrajch (b.1804)]] | Born 02/20/1804 | | [[Josef Rajman (b.1807)]] | Born 1807 | | [[Moszek Gewirtz (b.1808)]] | Born ~1808, Died 1867 | | [[Symcha Hochman (b.1808)]] | Born 08/10/1808 | | [[Josef Goldrajch (b.1808)]] | Born 10/10/1808 | | [[Chaja Frajda Goldrajch (b.1813)]] | Born 03/04/1813 | | [[Nachman Hochman (b.1814)]] | Born 1814 | | [[Chaim Goldrajch (b.1817)]] | Born 11/04/1817 | | [[Moszek Dawid Hochman (b.1818)]] | Born 04/12/1818 | | [[Judka Nusyn Hochman (b.1819)]] | Born 02/15/1819 | | [[Ita Goldrajch (b.1819)]] | Born 12/22/1819, Died 02/1820 | | [[Laja Hochman (b.1820)]] | Born 04/27/1820, Died 12/20/1820 | | [[Mortka Hochman (b.1787)]] | Died 12/11/1820 | | [[Sura Ryfka Goldrajch (b.1822)]] | Born 03/30/1822 | | [[Icek Hochman (b.1825)]] | Born 1825 | | [[Icek Hochman (b.1755)]] | Died 06/11/1825 | | [[Izrael Goldrajch (b.1825)]] | Born 08/04/1825 | | [[Szaindla Helferman (b.1790)]] | Died 11/18/1826 | | [[Eyzyk Stajnzalc (b.1827)]] | Born 04/03/1827 | | [[Icek Goldrajch (b.1828)]] | Born 11/20/1828 | | [[Izrael Kojm (b.1833)]] | Born 1833 | | [[Szmul Herszek Rozengarten (b.1838)]] | Born 1838, Died 1839 | | [[Bajla Mindla Gewirtz (b.1840)]] | Born 1840 | | [[Sura Gitla Rozengarten (b.1841)]] | Born 1841, Died 1848 | | [[Laja Gewirtz (b.1842)]] | Born 1842, Died 1842 | | [[Chaia Gewirtz (b.1843)]] | Born 1843 | | [[Kopel Majzels (b.1773)]] | Died 1843 | | [[Ryfka Basia Rozengarten (b.1843)]] | Born 1843, Died 1843 | | [[Szymon Gewirtz (b.1845)]] | Born 1845, Died 1851 | | [[Estera Ruchla Gewirtz (b.1847)]] | Born ~1847 | | [[Cypa Necha Rozengarten (b.1848)]] | Born 1848, Died 1854 | | [[Hessa Faszynk (b.1849)]] | Born ~1849 | | [[Chawa Rozengarten (b.1850)]] | Born 1850, Died 1851 | | [[Chemia Chil Rabinowicz (b.1808)]] | Died 1852 | | [[Ela Rozengarten (b.1852)]] | Born 1852, Died 1855 | | [[Rywa Hochman (d.1868)]] | Died 1868 | | [[Jankiel Icek Rabinowitz (b.1871)]] | Born 1871 | | [[Abram Icek Ryder (b.1880)]] | Born ~1880 | | [[Sura Szajndla Barbanel (b.1885)]] | Born 07/01/1885, Died 1890 | | [[Uszer Chuna Barbanel (b.1887)]] | Born 1887, Died 1892 | | [[Nuta Barbanel (d.1889)]] | Died 1889 | | [[Sura Ryfka Klik (b.1890)]] | Born 1890 | | [[Jochweta Frajda Barbanel (b.1890)]] | Born 10/15/1890 | | [[Marjem Weltman (b.1892)]] | Born 05/12/1892 | | [[Chaya Zissel Rojzner (b.1895)]] | Born 08/23/1895 | | [[Noech Ail (b.1897)]] | Born 10/18/1897 | | [[Jochweta Weltman (b.1901)]] | Born 03/04/1901 | | [[Estera Hinda Barbanel (b.1870)]] | Died 03/07/1903 | | [[Boruch Brand (d.1903)]] | Died 12/15/1903 | | [[Chaim Falek Greenberg (b.1905)]] | Born 08/15/1905 | | [[Leib Friedman (b.1906)]] | Born 09/01/1906, Died 10/13/1908 |