Jewish Families from Bojanów, Poland

This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Bojanow, Poland also known as Boyanuv

Gesher Galicia-Bojanow

Background

Bojanów [b%C9%94%CB%88januf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krzanowice, within Racibórz County, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland, close to the Czech border.[1] It lies approximately 2 kilometres (1 mi) east of Krzanowice, 10 km (6 mi) south-west of Racibórz, and 66 km (41 mi) south-west of the regional capital Katowice.

The village has a population of 830.

• Bojanów is included in the Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (KRRG). Shtetlach were interwoven together like a tapestry and the Jewish people of neighboring shtetlach linked by marriages, trade and marketing.
• They shared schools, cemeteries, kosher butchers, bakers and more. Smaller shtetlach registered their birth, marriages and death in a nearby larger shtetl.

Source

Bojanow