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This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Zborov, Ukraine, also known as Zborów, Zbarav, Zboriv, Zboruv.
Zborov may refer to
- Zboriv (Зборів, Zborów, Zborov), a city in Ternopil Oblast (Galicia), Ukraine
- Battle of Zboriv (1649), fought in the vicinity of Zborów (village of Mlynivtsi, Ukraine) at the Strypa River
- Treaty of Zboriv (1649), signed on August 17, 1649
- Battle of Zborov (1917), a small part of the Kerensky Offensive (the last Russian offensive in World War I, taking place in July 1917)
- Zborov (Šumperk District), a village in Olomouc Region, Czech Republic
- Zborov, Bardejov, a village in Slovakia
- Zborov Castle, situated near the village of Zborov in East Slovakia
- Zborov nad Bystricou, a village in Slovakia
Overview
Zboriv (Ukrainian: Зборів, Polish: Zborów, Russian: Зборов) is a town in Ternopil Oblast, west Ukraine. It is located in the historical region of Galicia. The population is 7,400 (2001). It is administrative center of the Zboriv Raion. Local government is administered by Zboriv town council. The town (located 35 km (22 mi) northwest of Ternopil, and 85 km (53 mi) southeast of Lviv) lies on Strypa River (Ukrainian: Cтpипа).
Historical data
Zborow, Tarnopol district was part of eastern Poland before World War II and is today in Ukraine. The town was occupied by the Germans on 4 July 1941.
Like in the other territories conquered from the Soviet Union, the murder of the Zborow Jews began immediately. One thousand Jewish men were executed by shooting shortly after the occupation. Through the winter of 1941/42 the remaining Jews of Zborow suffered from disease and hunger, and in summer 1942, a year after the occupation, the killings resumed and 1,300 Jews were deported to Belzec and killed. The Jews of the towns and villages from the area were brought to Zborow and the ghetto was fenced off. On 9 April 1943, 2,300 Jews were rounded up, forced to dig their own graves and executed. Three months later, in June 1943, was the end of the Zborow community. All those remaining in the ghetto and in labor camps in the area were killed – 600 out of them were burned alive.
The town was mentioned for the first time in a document from 1166. In 1241, during the Mongol invasion of Europe, it was ransacked and destroyed. In 1639, Zboriv was granted city rights. Its present name comes from a noble Polish family of Zborowscy. Ten years later, Zboriv was besieged by the Tartar-Cossack armies during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. In 1913, Zboriv had about 6000 inhabitants, including 2400 Ukrainians, 1300 Poles and 2300 Jews. During World War I, area around the town was the place of heavy battles between the Czechoslovak legionnaires and the Austrian Army (June 1917). After the Polish-Ukrainian war 1918-1919, it became part of Poland and was the seat of a powiat of the Tarnopol Voivodeship.
Memorial of the Czechoslovak Legion in Battle of Zboriv, 1917
A teenage boy views his murdered family shortly before his own death. Zboriv, Ukraine, 5 July 1941
Zboriv was the site of mass murder, conducted by the Einsatzgruppen, along with local Ukrainians, in 1941. 
Information about the Jewish community destroyed during the Holocaust can be found in a Yizkor book published by Jews who fled Zborow and survived the Holocaust. The town was completely destroyed in the summer of 1944 due to the Soviet offensive. Under Soviet rule (1944–1991), Zboriv was rebuilt and redeveloped. Construction plant and a small food processing factory were built in the 1960s. A significant part of a local budget was relied on agriculture and governmental subsidies. The state farm in Zboriv was one of the best in the region. In the 1980s, the town became the object of serious governmental investments. Among these few new town improvements were built, like: cinema, agricultural market, new secondary school, waterbike lake station, football stadium, a city hall and a culture hall. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the local economy experiences a deep downturn. During the 1990s (until present time)as a result of economical decline lots of active work age people left for abroad - mostly as a low skilled labourers in Western Europe or Russia. Nowadays, in spite of all unfavorable conditions, younger generation is less likely to quit and prefer to do a daily commutes for work to the closest regional centres like Ternopol and Lviv which offer wider job opportunities.
The Treaty of Zboriv
The treaty was signed on August 17, 1649, after the Battle of Zboriv when the Crown forces of about 25,000 led by king John II Casimir of Poland clashed against a combined force of Ukrainian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars, led by hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and khan İslâm III Giray of Crimea respectively, which numbered about 80,000.
According to the concluded agreement the number of Registered Cossacks increased up to 40 thousand, the Polish army and Jews were banned from the territory of the Kiev Voivodeship, Bratslav Voivodeship, and Chernihiv Voivodeship, governmental offices in the Cossack Hetmanate could be held only by Cossack leaders, the Orthodox Church was granted privileges, and the Crimean Khanate was to be paid a large sum of money.
The treaty was ratified by the Diet, which was in session between November 1649 and January 1650, but hostilities resumed when Catholic bishops refused to recognise the provisions of the treaty (i.e. admission to the Senate of Orthodox metropolitan of Kiev, Sylvestr Kosiv).
Righteous among Nations - Anton Sukhinski
Anton (Antos) Sukhinski was a loner and an outcast. Some even described him as the village idiot. He never married, and lived – always on the verge of poverty – in a small modest house in Zborow. His neighbors often made fun of him because of his gentle nature and his love of all living creatures. But at the time of total moral collapse, when the great majority either participated in the murder of the Jews or indifferently turned their backs on their neighbors, it was Anton Sukhinski – the village idiot – who stood up for his beliefs and in stark contrast to his surroundings preserved human values. Without any help or support he was responsible for the survival of six people. 
The Zeigers knew Suchinski from before the war. Following the first waves of killings in Zborov, the remaining Jews were put in a ghetto and then in a labor camp. Despite the periodic killing raids, the Zeiger family was reluctant to accept Sukhinski's offer of shelter. It was only when in June 1943 rumors spread that soon all the remaining Jews of Zborov would be killed, that they decided to trust the eccentric man with their lives. Stories
Sukhinski was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1974.
Database of Righteous among Nations
