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This project seeks to collect all Jewish families from the town of Gołogóry, Ukraine.
Jews In Gołogóry
Jews are recorded as inhabiting the nearby city of Lviv since at least 1256.[7] A Lviv office record from 1486, written in Latin, mentions the Jews of the Busko, including Iacob de Busko, son of Moyses Iudeus de Golegori, residing permanently in Gołogóry (see image on the right). Busko is a town 15 miles north-northwest of Gołogóry. The earliest mention of Jews living in Gołogóry date to 1470.
According to Pinkas Hakehillot: Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities: Poland vol. 2: Eastern Galicia, published in Jerusalem in 1980:[8] In 1765, there were 498 Jews living in Gołogóry, plus 133 in the neighboring towns. In 1880, there were 1,216 Jews living in Gołogóry out of a total population of 2,766. By 1900, the town had 3,083 inhabitants, of whom 1,130 were Jews. The town's population peaked in 1912 Gołogóry 3,300 residents, including 600 Poles and 1,500 Ruthenians (Ukrainians), and 1,200 Jews. By 1921, that number had dropped to 505 Jews out of 2,447 inhabitants. The 575 Jews remaining in the town in January 1942 were expelled or killed by the Nazis in November of that year.
An 1886 sketch of Jews in Galicia, the historical region containing Gołogóry Life in Galicia, particularly for Jews, was miserable under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which controlled Galicia from 1772 until 1918. See Poverty in Austrian Galicia and the History of the Jews in Galicia (central Europe).