The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. It can be assumed that the cemetery emerged in the 16th century. The earliest preserved gravestone relates to the mid-19th century. According to epigraphic data, the cemetery was operating till WWII. The site was fenced by ESJF in 2018.
For more information on this site visit: https://www.esjf-cemeteries.org/fenced/buchach-jewish-cemetery/
Information on the cemetery’s establishment is not available, but according to epigraphic data, it already existed at the beginning of the 19th century. It is marked on maps from the 1880s. Presumably, the cemetery was operating until WWII.
The exact period of the cemetery’s establishment is unknown. Presumably, it appears on maps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 1880s. The cemetery was photographed by Wisia Freud in 1938. It was fenced and well-maintained as most of the cemeteries in Galician shtetls. The site was fenced by ESJF in 2017.
The Kloyz of R. David Moshe Friedmann in Chortkiv is a Hasidic synagogue built between 1881 and 1885 by architect Jan Marcin Cieślikowski (1842–1927). This Romantic Historicist brick building is now a library.
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