# Bolekhiv <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">באָלעכאָוו</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Bolekhiv (Ukrainian), Bolechów (Polish), Bolechiw (German)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>49.06694 23.85139</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>1371–1772</td><td>Bolechów</td><td>Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Ruthenian Voivodeship)</td></tr> <tr><td>1772–1918</td><td>Bolechów / Bolechiw</td><td>Austrian Empire / Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Bolechów</td><td>Second Polish Republic (Stanisławów Voivodeship)</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1941</td><td>Bolekhiv</td><td>Soviet Union (Ukrainian SSR)</td></tr> <tr><td>1941–1944</td><td>Bolekhiv</td><td>Nazi Germany (Distrikt Galizien, General Government)</td></tr> <tr><td>1944–1991</td><td>Bolekhiv</td><td>Soviet Union (Ukrainian SSR)</td></tr> <tr><td>1991–present</td><td>Bolekhiv</td><td>Ukraine</td></tr> </table> ## Overview A Jewish community existed in Bolekhiv from the town's establishment, when its founder granted equal rights to Jews, Polish Catholics, and Ruthenians; the town became a cradle of the Haskalah in eastern Galicia. Its best-known figure was the 18th-century wine merchant and memoirist Dov Ber Birkenthal (1723–1805). By 1890 Jews made up about 75% of the town's 4,237 residents. Under German occupation the community was destroyed in successive aktions in 1941–1943, including mass shootings in the Taniawa forest and deportations to the Bełżec extermination camp; only 48 of Bolekhiv's Jews are known to have survived. <small>Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolekhiv, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_in_Bolekhiv</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Ruchama Rotfeld (b.1859)]] | Born 07/27/1859 | | [[Blima Rotfeld (b.1862)]] | Born 01/01/1862 | | [[Freide (b.1826)]] | Died 09/01/1890 | | [[Jochewet Turkel (b.1896)]] | Born 04/02/1896 | | [[Rosa Turkel (b.1900)]] | Born 1900, Died 1902 | | [[Moses Turkel (b.1905)]] | Born 02/10/1905 | | [[Leib Turkel (b.1822)]] | Died 06/11/1907 |