Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Re: Planning a trip to ancestral town Czchow #galicia


Renee Steinig
 

Googling ** Cmentarz zydowski Czchow ** brings up these pages,
describing the Jewish cemetery of Nowy Wisnicz, about 13 miles from
Czchow:

https://zabytki.powiatbochenski.pl/obiekty/miasto-i-gmina-nowy-wisnicz/cmentarz-zydowski-w-nowym-wisniczu
(or https://tinyurl.com/NowyWisnicz-1)

https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/miejscowosci/n/541-nowy-wisnicz/114-cmentarze/24660-cmentarz-zydowski-w-nowym-wisniczu
(or https://tinyurl.com/NowyWisnicz-2)

According to the articles, <<Jews >from other places... eg Borowna,
Czchow, Gdow, Kobyle, Wieniec, Wola Batorska, etc.>> were buried in
Nowy Wisnicz. It's not clear whether this means that all or some Jews
from those towns were buried there.
There's a similar reference in Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, vol. 9,
on GoogleBooks:
https://books.google.com/books?id=BghzzbRIdP4C&dq=jewish+cemetery+czchow&source=gbs_navlinks_s

More information about the Nowy Wisnicz Jewish cemetery can be found
on Jewish Cemeteries in Poland (http://www.kirkuty.xip.pl/), a site that was
very helpful to me on a recent trip to Polish Galicia.

On the other hand, this article in Haaretz mentions a Jewish cemetery
in Czchow: https://www.haaretz.com/1.4783933 . The three people quoted
in the article appear to be on Facebook; perhaps you can message them
there for more information.

This site has good tourist information for the region:
http://www.it.tarnow.pl/eng/Worth-seeing/Jewish-heritage

Renee

Renee Stern Steinig
Dix Hills NY
genmaven@...

Dave Lewak <dave@...> wrote:

<<... I'm thinking of planning a trip to Czchow next summer, but I'm not
sure what to do once I get there. Ideally I'd like to see whatever Jewish
artifacts still exist, but I have no idea what is there; despite much internet
research, I have not been able to find a Jewish cemetery or synagogue....>>

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