during the holocaust, the jewish population of over 3000 in bolekhiv (yiddish: bolechov, בולוחוב or באלעכוב, polish: bolechów) in 1940, with additional thousands of jews brought in from the surrounding villages and towns in 1941 and 1942, was mostly annihilated, brutally, by the germans with local ukrainian collaborators. only 48 of bolekhiv's jews were known to have survived the war.