# Oporzec <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Опорець (Ukrainian), Oporzec (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lviv Oblast, Stryi Raion (formerly Skole Raion), Ukraine</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>48.78278 23.33889</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 1772</td><td>Oporzec</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — Ruthenian Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1772–1918</td><td>Oporzec</td><td>Austria-Hungary — Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Oporzec</td><td>Second Polish Republic — Stanisławów Voivodeship (Skole area)</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1991</td><td>Oporets (Опорець)</td><td>Soviet Union — Ukrainian SSR, Lviv Oblast</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Oporets (Опорець)</td><td>Ukraine — Lviv Oblast, Stryi Raion</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Oporets is a mountain village near Skole in the High Beskyd of former Galicia (~706 m), on the rail line toward Skole. Like other Skole-area villages it was Austrian Galicia, then interwar Poland, then the Ukrainian SSR. No distinct organized Jewish community is documented for the village in available sources. <small>Sources: Wikidata, Gesher Galicia</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Shimon Rotfeld (b.1839)]] | Born ~1839 | | [[Ruchama Rotfeld (b.1864)]] | Born ~1864 | | [[Shmuel Elimelech Heller (b.1867)]] | Born ~1867 | | [[Roza Rotfeld (b.1870)]] | Born ~1870 | | [[Chana Halpern (b.1874)]] | Born ~1874, Died 1893 | | [[Bentzion Halpern (b.1878)]] | Born 1878 | | [[Baila Rotfeld (b.1881)]] | Died 1884 | | [[Gittel Heller (b.1889)]] | Born 1889, Died 1890 | | [[Yutta Rachel Reichmann (b.1891)]] | Born 1891 | | [[Yitzchak Moshe Heller (b.1892)]] | Born 1892 | | [[Perel Rotfeld (b.1873)]] | Died 1892 | | [[Yitzchak Eizik Rotfeld (b.1893)]] | Born 1893, Died 1894 | | [[Eidel Perel Heller (b.1894)]] | Born 1894 | | [[Gizella Reichmann (b.1894)]] | Born 06/08/1894 | | [[Meir Reichmann (b.1896)]] | Born 1896 | | [[Rivka Reichmann (b.1899)]] | Died 1899 | | [[Aharon David Reichmann (b.1900)]] | Born 03/29/1900 | | [[Wolf Reichmann (b.1903)]] | Born 08/14/1903 | | [[Avraham Leib Rotfeld (b.1820)]] | Died 02/11/1904 | | [[Avraham Leib Reichmann (b.1906)]] | Born 06/28/1906 | | [[Chana Kaila Reichmann (b.1909)]] | Died 1913 | | [[Gittel Rotfeld (b.1853)]] | Died 1922 | | [[Getzel Rotfeld (b.1843)]] | Died 1927 | | [[Perel Katz]] | Born |