Despite Bircza’s small size and relative obscurity, I have come across a number of maps of this area in the course of my genealogy work. One map, a military-scale map of the Dobromil Region (Pas 50 Słup 35) printed in 1938 by the Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny, is undoubtedly the most precise and most valuable. I have scanned the relevant parts and broken them up into sections which one can view below, and which can always be accessed by the ‘interactive map’ menu on the right sidebar of every page on the Bircza Online website.

A number of useful contemporary maps are available at the official Bircza website’s map page. These and other maps are listed on the right side of this page and clicking on the name will load the map. Please remember that these maps are reproduced here for private genealogy use, since many are copyrighted by their makers and cannot be used for commercial use.

This hybrid satellite map is provided by Google Maps at this page. This map can be found in a full-page form through Wikimapia at this page.

This topography map can be found at the official Bircza website’s map page at the following URL: http://www.bircza.pl/galeria/mapy/mapagminy.jpg.

This administrative area map can be found at the official Bircza website’s map page at the following URL: http://www.bircza.pl/galeria/mapy/mapaadm2.gif.

The Wojskowy Instytut Geograficzny (WIG) map is a military-scale map of the Dobromil Region (Pas 50 Słup 35). Its scale is 1 : 100 000 (1 centimetre = 1 kilometre). Each map is marked with horizontal and vertical numbers that work like latitude / longitude lines, using the same outlay as the original map. To view a village or town, either click its name in the index below and find it using the co-ordinates listed, or click directly onto the large map below to zoom in on certain areas. Some locations can be found in more than one map, and the listing below is usually the most descriptive for the specific village. For more information on the map, please contact me.

WIG zoom map #1: 44 32 / 40 37

WIG zoom map #2: 45 34 / 40 40

WIG zoom map #3: 48 32 / 43 38

WIG zoom map #4: 48 34 / 43 40

My grandfather, Jonas Lewental, set his recollections of Bircza to paper, drawing a thorough outline of the Bircza area in 1941, as he remembers it, including resident’s names and stores. Other yōts’ay Bircza are requested to do the same, so that Bircza, as it was before the Holocaust, can be remembered here forever. Please send me maps or other recollections of the town by emailing bircza@reproots.org.

Fellow Bircza researcher Chris Wozniak visited Bircza in 1998, and drew a diagramme of Bircza on his computer, showing the basic plan of the town. The map below is useful because it is very useful for pinpointing locations of pictures taken in the Bircza area and identifying the basic makeup of the town today. For more information on the map, please contact me or Chris.

This area roads map can be found at the official Bircza website’s map page at the following URL: http://www.bircza.pl/galeria/mapy/mapadrogi.jpg.

This street map can be found at the official Bircza website’s map page at the following URL: http://www.bircza.pl/galeria/mapy/birczaulice.jpg.

This map is from an atlas printed by Państwowe Przedsie, biorstwo Wydawnictw Kartograficznych (PPWK), in 1959. The volume has 155 pages with 34 individual sections of Poland shown on a 1 : 500,000 scale (1 centimetre = 5 kilometre). It also has an information page between each map listing phone numbers of hotels, hospitals, etc. for the major cities in the area shown. The selections here show Bircza in relation to Przemyśl and Sanok. During the course of my correspondence with fellow Bircza area researcher Betty Kemp, who is looking for details on her grandfather Wojciech Huczko, in Posada Olchowska, and her grandmother's family (Andrzej Pich), in Siemuszowa (both near Sanok), I received this black-and-white reproduction, made from the full-colour atlas. To view more detail, click on a section of the map below, or simply scroll down the page. For more information on the map, please contact contact me or Betty.

PPWK zoom map: bircza-sanok area

PPWK zoom map: bircza-przemysl area

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