soldier of the Home Army Jews Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888–1970), Nobel Prize-winning author Simon Wiesenthal, an Austrian writer and Nazi hunter Emanuel Ringelblum, historian, politician and social worker Mina Rosner, a Canadian writer Ruben Feldschuh (Ben Shem) (1900–1980), Zionist author and political activist Max Nomad (1881–1973) is the pseudonym of Austrian author and educator Max(imilian) Nacht. People associated with Buchach Ukrainians Volodymyr Hnatiuk (1871–1926) — writer, literary scholar, translator and journalist, and was one of the most influential and notable Ukrainian ethnographers Bohdan A. Futey, judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims from 1987 to 2002 Poles Dawid Buczacki, voivode of Podole in the late 15th century Jakub Buczacki, royal secretary and Bishop of Płock in the first half of the 16th century Michał Buczacki, Polish nobleman, the voivode of Podole, and the Castellan of Halicz in 1433–37 Stefan Potocki, voivode of Bratslav, starost of Fellin Stefan Aleksander Potocki, with wife Joanna founder of Buchach monastery UGCC Mikołaj Bazyli Potocki, starost of Bohuslav, Kaniv, benefactor of the Buchach's townhall, churches, Pochayiv Lavra Jan Tworowski, voivode of Podole, owner of Buchach Antoni Opolski, physicist, rector of Opole University Jews Abraham David ben Asher Anshel Buczacz, Rabbi of Buchach Alicia Appleman-Jurman, Holocaust survivor and author Unknown nationality Johann Georg Pinsel, Baroque sculptor, named Halych's Michelangelo Bernard Meretyn, an architect of the late Baroque and rococo (possibly of German origin) Communications The closest international airports are: Lviv International Airport, in Lviv (LWO), ca. away Ivano-Frankivsk International Airport, in Ivano-Frankivsk (IFO), ca. away Chernivtsi International Airport, in Chernivtsi (CWC), ca. away Rzeszów International Airport, in Rzeszów (RZE), Poland, ca. away International relations Twin towns and sister cities Buchach is currently twinned with: Złotoryja, Poland Kazimierza Wielka, Poland References Further reading Omer Bartov, Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, Simon & Schuster, 2018 External links Buchach in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984). Verkhovna Rada website — city of Buchach, Buchatskyi Raion, Ternopil Oblast Buchach Today Buchach info site with photos and history The murder of the Jews of Buchach during World War II, at Yad Vashem website. Buchach Jewish Cemetery fully documented at Jewish Galicia and Buckovina ORG Sources Sadok Barącz, Pamiątki buczackie.— Lwów: Drukarnia «Gazety narodowej», 1882.— 168 s. Cities in Ternopil Oblast Ruthenian Voivodeship Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Tarnopol Voivodeship Shtetls Cities of district significance in Ukraine Magdeburg rights Strypa Holocaust