BUKOWSKO


the Roman Catholic church and the bank. Bukowsko, 2006

Bukowsko, 1946 "... to the village of Bukowsko, where on the night of April 4 the UPA bandits burned down all but eleven of the 400 houses and made more than 3,000 persons homeless."

Jewish cemetery in Bukowsko. Commemorative plaque. All of the cemetery was destroyed before 1942, more them 80 tombstones used as street floor in Sanok. The rest destroyed tombstones had
been use as material to the road of the Bukowsko street in 1942-1943, but about 10 tombstones remain.

Restored Jewish cemetery. Jewish headstones which were uncovered during the restoration of this cemetery. April 2007

Bukowsko jewish cemetery - street sign

'Bukowsko' (, Russian: ''Буковско'') is a village in Sanok County, East Małopolska in the Lesser Beskid mountains, parish ''in loco'', located near the towns of Medzilaborce and Palota (in northeastern Slovakia).

Contents
History
Population
Geography
Twin cities
Bukowsko rural commune
''Historical'' rural commune
Personalia
See also
References
External links

History


Settled in prehistoric times, the southern-eastern Poland region that is now Podkarpacie was overrun in pre-Roman times by various tribes, including the Celts, Goths and Vandals (Przeworsk culture). After the fall of the Roman Empire, of which most of sountern-eastern Poland was part (all parts below the San), the area was invaded by Hungarians and Slavs.
The region subsequently became part of the Great Moravian state. Upon the invasion of the Hungarian tribes into the heart of the Great Moravian Empire around 899, the Lendians of the area declared their allegiance to Hungarian Empire. The region then became a site of contention between Poland, Kievan Rus and Hungary starting in at least the 9th century. This area was mentioned for the first time in 981 (by Nestor) , when Volodymyr the Great of Kievan Rus took the area over on the way into Poland. In 1018 it returned to Poland, 1031 back to Rus, in 1340 Casimir III of Poland recovered it.
Approximate borders of Great Moravia at its greatest extent on an older map (in 890 - 894)

In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1361. During 966 - 1018, 1340 - 1772 (Ruthenian Voivodeship) and during 1918 - 1939 Bukowsko was part of Poland. While during 1772 - 1918 it belonged to Austrian empire, later Austrian-Hungarian empire when double monarchy was introduced in Austria. This part of Poland was controlled by Austria for almost 120 years. At that time the area (including west and east of Subcarpathian Voivodship) was known as Galicia. It was given the Magdeburg law in 1768.
In 1785 the village lands comprised 6.5 km². There were 700 Catholics.
In 1864 Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam was appointed as rabbi of the Jewish community of Bukowsko. He held this position until 1879.
The village was burned down January, March and November 1946[1] by the UPA. Only over a dozen years after the war the village started to rebuild.
According to "The Holocaust: The Jews in the County of Cracau" on Bukowsko near Płonna was the site of a "special camp" in 1942. The camp was used to hold Jews from the Sanok, Lesko and Dobromil powiats, that is if they weren't shot in their village or taken to the work camp in Zwangsarbeitslager Zaslaw, 30 km east of Bukowsko. Bukowsko also had a labor camp which existed from August to Oct. of 1942. The Jews, 60 on average, carried out road construction. These Jews were then sent to Zaslaw. Apparently at least 13,000 people were held at Zasław and then transported to Belzec. The old people were shot in the woods near Zasław.

Population



1899 - 1893 Poles, 833 Jews

1932 - 2325 Poles, 650 Jews, 5 Ukrainians.

2005 - 1500 Poles

Geography


The municipality lies at an altitude of 482 metres and covers an area of 8.3 km². It has a population of about 1500 people. Time zone: UTC+1/SummerUTC+2

Twin cities



Topoľovka

Maizieres-les-Metz
An 1898 map shows the location of Bukowsko rural commune (ger. Gerichts-Bezirk) (click in it to enlarge


the Dom Ludowy (''Agricultural Circle'') which is used for wedding
receptions, concerts, folks show, etc.

the Roman Catholic church - inside

Pro Memoria. Dedication and blessing of a memorial to those who died during WWII; 1939-1948.

Bukowsko rural commune


Administrative division: 11 villages
Villages: the village was first mentioned in
Bukowsko (fund. 1361)
Wolica (fund. 1594)
Wola Piotrowa (fund. 1526)
Karlików, (fund. 1483)
Zboiska, (fund. 1361)
Dudyńce, (fund. 1372)
Nagórzany, (fund. 1589)
Nadolany, (fund. 1589)
Nowotaniec, (fund. 1361)
Tokarnia, (fund. 1526)
Wola Sękowa, (fund. 1493)
Płonna, (fund. 1433)

''Historical'' rural commune


Gerichts-Bezirk bis 1918 :
Villages: the village was first mentioned in:
Bełchówka 1451
Czaszyn 1450
Czystogarb 1524
Darów 1553
Dołżyca 1549
Dudyńce 1372
Duszatyn 1578
Jasiel 1534
Jawornik 1546
Jędruszkowce 1438
Kamienne 1553
Karlików 1483
Komańcza 1512
Kulaszne 1538
Łupków 1526
Maniów 1554
Markowce 1367
Mików 1561
Mokre 1467
Morochów 1402
Moszczaniec 1447
Nadolany 1589
Nagórzany 1589
Niebieszczany 1373
Nowotaniec 1361
Odrzechowa 1543
Osławica 1530
Pielnia 1400
Płonna 1433
Pobiedno 1361
Podgaj 1550
Polany Surowiczne 1549
Prełuki 1557
Prusiek 1361
Przybyszów 1553
Puławy 1553
Radoszyce 1361
Ratnawica 1441
Rzepedź 1565
Smolnik 1511
Surowica 1361
Szczawne 1437
Tokarnia 1526
Turzańsk 1514
Wisłok Dolny, (1361) Wisłok
Wisłok Górny, (1361) Wisłok
Wola Michowa 1546
Wola Piotrowa 1526
Wola Sękowa 1493
Wolica 1361
Wysoczany 1635
Zawadka 1567
Zboiska 1361

Personalia



Shlomo Halberstam

Ben Zion Halberstam

Feliks Kiryk

Adam Didur

Anastazy Jakub Pankiewicz

Julian Krzyżanowski

Alojzy Ehrlich, (Hasmonea Lwów)

See also



Dialekt małopolski


Gwara sądecka

References


::'Inline:'
1. 3,000 in rebel band terrorized Galicia, Ukrainian Nationalists, German deserters led by SS colonel burn 3 villages in a night (by wireless to The New York Times) Sanok, Poland, April 17, 1946 – a strong, well-organized and elusive band of Ukrainian nationalists and German deserters, estimated at more than 3,000 under the leadership of a German colonel, in a fortnight have succeeded in transformating this sector of the Carpathian foothills of old Galicia into a virtual partisan stronghold. With the burning of three large villages on a single night twoo weeks ago, they now have made 10,000 of thise area's total pre war population of 135,000 homeless and are resisting with complete success all efforts to quell what is tantamount to open insurrection. By burning an avarange of two bridges a day for the last three months, they have completely disrupted communications in this thckly populated but primitive backwoods country and have made it virtually impossible for security police and two Polish divisions to rout them out. By stealing cattle and demanding tributes of a million zlotys (about ,000) they appear capable of holding out indefinitely in their wooded hide-outs. Gradually the small bands joined forces with a leader said by Polish officials to be a German SS [Elite Guard] colonel, which is plausible, since the Ukrainian SS was organized by the renegade General Pethuse, whom the Germans reportedly liquidated in 1943 after he had served his purpose as the rallying point for the traditionally anti-Communist Ukrainians. The present insurrectionist leader is know by all - by peasant and officials alike – as "The Colonel". The band itself is known as the Banderowce. after one Colonel Banderowce. a Ukrainian who apparently became a legend in this part of the world for his fight with the Ukrainians against the Communists after the last war. The writer of this dispatch lat week went to the heart of the bandit country, to the village of Bukowsko, where on the night of April 4 the bandits burned down all but eleven of the 400 houses and made more than 3,000 persons homeless. Our escort consisted of therefugee Mayor, now in Sanok and two squads of well-armed Security Police under the command of a nervous 20-year-old second lieutenant. Before burning the village the bandits who were well armed with German and Russian automatics and machine guns, had demanded 1,000,000 zlotys tribute, and the village had raised 300,000. On the night of the fire the villagers received scant warning a few hours before from a peasant that the bandits were coming, but had not had time to remove their cattle.

External links



Bernard Schwerd trip to Bukowsko (Zboiska-Wolica-Bukowsko-Wola Piotrowa-Bukowsko)

Karlikow Ski-park

protenstant parish in Wola Piotrowa

Caritas in Zboiska

Castle in Zboiska

Bukowsko shtetl

Bukowsto shtetl - story

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