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Bolekhiv (Ukrainian: Болехів; Polish: Bolechów; Yiddish: באָלעכאָוו) is a city in Kalush Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine. It was once home to a large Jewish community, very few of whom survived World War II. Bolekhiv hosts the administration of Bolekhiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.
Bolekhiv is a small town located south of Lviv in the Skole Beskids on the Sukil River at the foot of the picturesque Ukrainian Carpathians. On the Solomon Hill near Bolekhiv, archaeologists discovered the remains of an Old Rus fortified settlement of the 11th–12th century, yet whether the later town of Bolechiv was somehow geographically or ...
During the Holocaust, the Jewish population of over 3000 in Bolekhiv (Yiddish: Bolechov, בולוחוב or באלעכוב, Polish: Bolechów) in 1940, with additional thousands of Jews brought in from the surrounding villages and towns in 1941 and 1942, was mostly annihilated, brutally, by the Germans with local Ukrainian collaborators.
Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 changed the lives of millions of Ukrainians, who were forced to leave their homes and move to peaceful territories of Ukraine or go abroad. More than 2,000 internally displaced persons were accommodated on the territory of the Bolekhiv community during March-August 2022.
Bolekhiv. Type: Town with 10,800 residents. Description: city of Ukraine. Categories: city of regional significance of Ukraine and locality. Location: Kalush Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe. View on OpenStreetMap. Latitude. 49.06632° or 49° 3' 59" north. Longitude.
In spring of 1944, when the Soviets finally took control of the region, only a few Jews remained alive. Thus ended the Jewish community of Bolekhov. This book serves to commemorate the once vital community that no longer exists. Bolekhov (Bolechów), Ukraine is located at 49°04' North Latitude/ 23°52' East Longitude.
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This place is situated in Ivano-Frankivska, Ukraine, its geographical coordinates are 49° 4' 0" North, 23° 52' 0" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Bolekhiv. See Bolekhiv photos and images from satellite below, explore the aerial photographs of Bolekhiv in Ukraine. Bolekhiv hotels map is available on the target page linked above.
