The dark history of Buczacz, an ordinary town in western Ukraine, exemplifies the fate of Jews in the vast marginal territories of East-Central Europe.
Who could find Buczacz—also written Butschatsch, or Buchach in transliteration from Cyrillic—on a map?1 The nondescript town in what is today western Ukraine has never boasted more than 16,000 inhabi… [+21503 chars]
