Budaniv

Budaniv (Ukrainian: Буданів, Polish: Budzanów) is a village in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, in western Ukraine, near Terebovlya.

Mountainous terrain of the region always attracted new settlers and about 1550 a wooden castle was built up on the peak of one of the hills.

In 1765 Maria Potocka, a Polish countess, founded a Catholic church on the castle's ruins.

Following the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the settlement was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, and afterwards by Germany.

In November 1942, under German occupation, the Jews of Budzanów were deported to the Belzec extermination camp.

Budaniv castle