(Note: You may find additional information and sources in my Galicia and Ukrainianweb pages)
If I have missed noting your shtetl below, please let me know and provide as much as information as you have available. It will be added to this page as soon as possible. E-mail: Jwebindex@gmail.com
There is a
German and Polish gazetteer that will assist you in looking up the present names and location of old
German and Polish towns
www.kartenmeister.com
For a
list of hundreds of towns in Poland, with current information about them, including the name and telephone number of the Mayor of each. There is a lot of current information about Poland at this site. http://www.bmb.pl/
Mark Halpern, AGAD Archive Coordinator stated in a Gesher Galicia SIG message "I can assure all researchers who are searching the JRI-Poland database for records that have been indexed from the AGAD Archives that ALL records in each and every register at AGAD has been indexed. All these records are in Polish or German, so transliteration from Cyrillic is not a problem. Of course, there are probably some errors resulting from difficult to read entries and aging of the registers.
If the vital event you are seeking is not in the index, there are many reasons why the event may not have been registered. However, as with all JRI Poland indexing initiatives, indexing is done with great care and checked and rechecked.
One of the great values of the JRI-Poland indexing is that you, the researcher, can search by surname and town using Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex to identify
possible ancestors. Nobody, not the best private researcher or Archivist, will search
as thoroughly as you."
The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland AGAD Archivesproject has a
new and improved
Project Status Report. This report provides the information researches need to track the indexing of Jewish vital records for
86 Administrative towns in East Galicia. http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html
The page is organized alphabetically by the current name of the 86
Galician towns (83 of the towns are currently in Ukraine and 3 Poland) The table summarizes the records available for indexing, the current status of funding, and the current status of indexing.
Clicking on the town name provides more details, including links to the
Town Leader, Yizkor Book translations, ShtetLinks sites, Surname lists, and Research groups, if available. Mark Halpern Willie46@aol.comis the AGAD Archives Coordinator of the JRI-Poland Project.
Virtual Shtetl Portal - this web site will come up in Polish, however
you can get a free translation of this, as well as any other pages, by
downloading and installing Google Translator. http://www.sztetl.org.pl
A town in Łódzkie Voivodship and belongs to
Łódź
agglomeration. According to data gathered on 20 May 2002, the town had a
population of 20,220. Located in central Poland and founded in 1818.
The first Jewish residents were under the jurisdiction of the Lutomiersk
Kahal, but an independent community was established in 1830 by Jews who
came from Lutomiersk. In 1826 the governor of the Polish Congress
Kingdom granted the community a privilege permitting them to reside and
acquire property in specified areas of the town. The Jewish population of
Aleksandrow Lodzki numbered around 1,000 in the 1850s; 1,673 (27.9%
of the total population) in 1879; 3,061 (24.1%) in 1909; and
2,635 (31.9%) in 1921.
http://www.aleksandrow-lodzki.pl/
A town in
Bialystokprovince, PolandJewish presence: from 1630 Jewish Population in 1939: 4,000 Fate of Jews during WWII: in 1941 the Nazis occupied the town, and executed 1,000 men in the forests. A ghetto was established, from which Jews were deported. Camps and information about the modern town: http://www.suwalki.tpnet.pl/umaug/ramkiang.htm
There is a Yizkor Book Translation page at the JewishGen site and a pamphlet written in Buenos Aires in 1959 by many of the same people who wrote the Yizkor Book. "Belchatow Yizkor-Bukh" (Belchatow Memorial Book - Two Chapters from "A
Ruined Garden") http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland inMenachem Sharon
Menachem Sharon 27 Bezalel St Tel Aviv 64683 Israel
This town had a site to exterminate Jews by carbon monoxide poisoning through truck exhausts. When this was found to be "too slow", the inmates were transferred to Auschwitz
and the actual extermination site was plowed under by 1943.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Belzec.html
The
Belzyce Town Hall Archives turned over a large set of 19th century Jewish registers to the
Lublin branch of the Polish State Archives.
The additional registers include births, marriages and deaths for the years 1882-1886 and 1891-1902. These will be added to the 1865 registers which were already housed in
Lublinbut not filmed by the Mormons. Earlier years which were filmed by the Mormons are already on-line www.jri-poland.org
This town is located in Eastern
Galiciaor Western Ukraine formerly in USSR 1944-1991, Poland
1920-1939 and Austria-Hungary 1172-1918 and is the district center in
Ternopil regionwhich is in the heart of Galicia.
The Jewish population, or Kehila, in this, the
Czartoryski Territories in 1776, obtained from Appendix I of the book "The
Lords' Jews, Magnate-Jewish Relations in the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 18th Century" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 1,270.
Located in Upper Silesia in the
Katowice province and some 60 miles west, it is an industrial city centered around the coal, zinc, lead and silver mines.
Bialystok is Polish, Bielostock is in Russian
and in 1906-1907) it belonged to the Russian Empire. Today Bialystok belongs to Poland.
The Bialystok Center is located at 228 E. Broadway, New York, NY 10002. Phone 212 475 7755. The Center offers copies of the Yizkor Book for sale. An inventory of on-line records for Bialystok is available at http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/bialy.htm
The town, until the Holocaust, had a large Jewish population, depending on the source of the information - something like 40% of the total population. A great deal of information is available at http://www.zchor.org/bialystok/bialystok.htm
Napoleon occupied
Bialystok for one year between 1795 (when it became part of Prussia in the 3rd partition of Poland) and 1808 when it became part of
Grodno
Guberniya, Russian Empire
One of the principal
Russian Polish Jewish centers (in Russian: Belostok), incorporated into
Russia between 1807 and 1921 and administrated by the U.S.S.R. between 1939 and 1941, reverting to
Poland in 1945 bialystok.htm
Database search for Bialystok www.rtrfoundation.org Once there, you will see the index of Jewish Records pertaining to
Bialystok and which archive the records are stored in. To obtain copies of the records, check out the
Belarus SIG and JRI-Poland databases. If they are not available there, you will either have to go to
Grodno and Bialystok or, hire a private researcher.
"The Immortal Spirit, The Bialystok Hebrew Gymnasium, Poland, 1919-1939" authored by Yaacov Samid, and translated from Hebrew to English by Stanley Hillel. The Hebrew Gymnasium in
Bialystok was the first school outside of Palestine where all subjects both religious and secular were taught entirely in Hebrew. It had many graduates that went on to become well known including Yitzhok Shamir, and during the war many of it's students and teachers formed the nucleus of the Jewish underground in
Bialystok which launched an uprising in August of 1943.
Bialystok Province - in the first few weeks of November, 1942, as part of German Operation Rhinehard, the liquidation of all the Jewish communities in the countryside of
Bialystok Provincewas ordered. In most of these towns, the Jewish population had been kept in small ghetto's for 15 or 16 months, and had faced many abuses and tortures.
The Jewish populations were removed and taken to temporary transit camps such as the former camp of the Polish Tenth Calvary in
Bialystok. From these temporary 'concentration' camps they were in a matter of days or weeks, sent by rail, to
Treblinka where almost all were gassed and burned on the same day of their arrival. Almost 100,000 Jews fromBialystok Province were wiped out in this manner during November of 1942. The
Bialystok Ghetto remained open until August of 1943, due in large part to the value of it's slave labor. Most of the participants in this horrific crime against humanity never received any justice - none! The previous information was obtained from a posting on JewishGen of by Tilford Bartman bartmant@earthlink.net www.zabludow.com
Located about 15 km. to the west of Brest Litovsk. On June 29, 1942 the Nazis herded up the Jews of this town. P. B. Dorman representing "The Polish Jews" http://jewpol.home.ml.org
knows of records of Jews deported to
Biala Podlaska and Jews transported from Biala Podlaska to Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Warsaw, Brzesc, Siedlce, Janow Podlaski Community in Bielsko-Biala Podlaski.
The site contains a listing of all legible headstones in the old Jewish cemetery of
Bielsk. There are also a number of photos of surviving headstones.
The site includes the
1930 business directory pages covering Bielsk, and a brief introduction to the history of
Bielsk.
The site contains other source material listing natives of
Bielsk including materials from the Bielsker Bruderlicher Untershtitzungs Verein. A number of photos of the town have also been added. The site also contains a section for photos of families from
Bielsk. Contact is Andrew Blumberg ablumberg@yahoo.com
Bieszczady Region
Today it is a popular tourist destination. Photographs of the area are available at http://fizyka.phys.put.poznan.pl/~spoon/karp.htm
To see the click on the various links, then on the resultant pages click on the link at the bottom.
The Jewish Records Indexing Poland
is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of
Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow. Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns. Records are from 1863 to 1900.
The town is near
Krosno and Zmigrod in Western Galicia according to a translation of the Polish "Slownik Geograficzny" published between 1880 and 1902.
At
the time of WW II, there were about 1,000 Jews in Bodzentyn. Only a
few escaped the ghetto's liquidation in 1942. This site offers an
impressive insight into this shtetl with photos and shows the caring of Jews
to restore the cemetery. Worth your time to spend time on this site
whether you have roots here or not. http://www.bodzentyn.net/
A small town (only 575 Jews in 1897) in Sandomierz Powiat (district) of
Radom Guberniya. Complete extracts of all Jewish marriages from 1826 to 1877 as extracted by Warren Blatt http://www.jewishgen.org//krsig
There are marriage partners from all over the
Kielce-Radom area including: Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy
Korczyn, Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost, and dozens of local villages.
Boguslawow
Located nearRozanka in Nowogrodek (Novogrodek) Province in
Pre-war Poland
Boguslawy
Located near
Bieniakonie in Nowogrodek (Novogrodek) Province in Pre-war Poland
The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records from 1877-1898 and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html
The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records from 1878 - 1899 and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html
Birth Records - 1878-1889, 1894-1899 Marriage Records - none Death Records - 1878-1899
There is a Jewish cemetery in existence for the past 200 years. More information about the cemetery can be obtained from William Fern Whfern@aol.com
Formerly in Poland and now in Ukraine - The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records from 1846-1898 and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html
Birth Records - 1873-1875, 1877-1894 Marriage Records - 1846-1876 Death Records - 1877-1898
Brestwas formerly known asBrest-Litovskand the first mention was in 1019 as Berestye. It became part of The Grand Duchy of
Lithuania in 1319, and later, part of Poland.
Russia reverted Brest to Poland in 1919. From 1944, Brest became a part of USSR (Byelorussian Socialist Republic) which a few years ago, became an independent country
Belarus.
"Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora" - volume 2 has been updated
There is a Yizkor Book for this city. This City has its own web site with much information http://www.brestonline.com/
Breslau
(see Wroclaw)
Located at one time in the Posen Province. Jewish Community e-mail address: wroclaw@jewish.org.pl They offer limited help and have documents about the burial names in the large
Kosel cemetery. The archive and the university library have address and phone books from 1880 until 1940.
Brody
During the time period between WWI to WWII this town was located inPoland now in Ukraine
Russian Era Indexing of Poland Project - 1826-1865 in the LDS microfilms of the Jewish vital records of
Brok are now added at http://www.jewishgen.org/reipp
Brzesko
(Briegel)
A medium sized town on the main road halfway between
Krakow and Tarnow. Many of its residents left following the big fire of 1904. The Mormons have the birth and marriage registrations records from 1864-1876. The office of civilian affairs there has the records from 1876 onwards.
A personal story of the deportation and liquidation of the
Brzesko Jewish community is discussed by a woman who was there. Most were killed in
Belzec. Mrs. Ester Spagatner Friedman published her memoirs which she wrote in Polish immediately after WW2. The book was published in
Poland and is titled "Daleka Droga Do Domu" (you can find through Google). It was also published in Hebrew. It contains many details about
Brzesko, Krakow, schools, Plaszow, Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Brzeziny
There is a Yizkor Book Brzeziny
Brzeznica
(Nowa)
Located 21 km west ofRadomsko. Records for the years 1816 to 1864 - JRI-Poland Database website www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz Yakum Israel built by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum. verbin.htm
Once inPoland and now in Ukraine. The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html
Birth Records - 1865-1876 Marriage Records - none Death Records - none
Once located in the Kielce Guberniya. There are
birth and death records for the years 1886-1900, excluding 1889 and
1891. The marriage records are for the years 1886, 1893-1900.
There are also information for neighboring towns that are also part of the
Pinczow project.
www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/psa/psapinczow.htm
Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Mordechai Rubinstein
Bytom
(formerly Beuthen)
There are some Jews living in this town today according to Israel Pickholtz isai8v10@actcom.co.ilKatowice region (Dabrowka Wlk.) The notes to some LDS films filed under
Bytom/Beuthen read "Roman Catholic parish registers of births, marriages, and deaths for Holy Trinity Parish in Beuthen,
Silesia, Germany. The records name Dombrowa, which is part of the city of
Beuthen, and Orzegow, a neighboring town."
Just to add to the confusion, the map shows
Dabrowka Ml. (with an accent over the 'o' and a slash through the l) as a suburb ofKatowice as well as the town Dabrowa Gornicza and a village
Dabrowa just east of Myslowice. There is no more than 20km between all 4 places.
The Beuthen suburb was part of Prussian "Upper Silesia", as opposed to Austrian Galicia or Russian Poland. From a posting on JewishGen by Rodney Eisfelder eisfelderr@ACSLINK.AONE.NET.AU There are 34 or more researchers listed for people researching the families from this town. Vital and related records at www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
Also, contact Lance Ackerfield of Kibbutz Yiftah, in Israel for information on joining the Shtetl Co-opLancea@israsrv.net.il
Translation of unpublished list prepared in 1942: "Jews deported from Beuthen(Bytom)Upper Silesia"
Bzury
One of the cruelest murders of Jewish women occurred here when some
Polish men from Szczuczyn raped some 20 Jewish women in a local forest before killing them and stealing their clothes. More info at http://radzilow.com/tygodnik.htm
Complete extracts of all
Jewish marriages in this city from 1868 - 1884transcribed into English, has over 700 records and includes surrounding towns of
Chmielnik, Kielce, Nowy Korczyn, Lopuszno, Przedborz, Radoszyce and Wloszczowa.
A very good article in the January 2004 issue ofGeographical magazine (in Hebrew) is entitled "The Wise Men of Chelm" which details a description of this small town, its legends, its history and present, with photographs. The article ends with a quote from Beshvis Zinger's story "Shlumiel Man of Chelm". http://www.masa.co.il/
Chelm Landsmanshaft in Israel - there was a Jewish Presence: From 1442. Jewish Population in 1939: Approx. 15,000. Fate of Jews during WWII: Starting with
German occupation, Jews forced on death marches, and deported in massive "Aktionen" to
Sobibor death camp. Only 15 survived. see: Communal History
Death Camp for "Total Extermination" lists the testimonies of the last prisoners and list of the Jewish Communities liquidated in
Chelmo
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~lzamosc/gchelmno.html
Until 1877 the town was called
Chodziesen. From 1877 it was Colmar or Kolmar. The current
Polish name of the town is Chodziezand it is situated approximately 65km north of
Poznan.
http://www.iajgs.org/cemetery/poland/chodziez.html
There was an offer to lookup individual marriages for this shtetl was made by David Price at dprice@sympatico.caon a "if free time available" basis.
There are marriage partners from all over the
Kielce-Radomarea including: Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy Korczyn,
Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec,
Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost,and dozens of local villages. http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Nachum Mali
Chodecz
(Kho dech)
Located in the Wloclawek area of the historical
Polish Kujawy region. Chodeczis located roughly a half way between
Lodz and Wloclawek. Poland did not exist as the independent country in 1864, and this particular part of country has been in
Russianhands. There also was in existence Prussian and Austrian Poland.
http://london.iwm.org.uk/server/show/ ConWebDoc.4798
Bobrka District, Lwów Province. This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz Yakum Israel created by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum. verbin.htm
Once in Poland and now in Ukraine. The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records
and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html
Birth Records - 1874-1898 Marriage Records - none Death Records - 1884-1898
There is quite a bit of material available within the web page, including the history, maps, photos of those who perished and an Index of Surnames as well as the 1923 Business Directory. Also, Marriage Records from 1826-1865
"Books of Residents"
(or Ksiega Ludnosci.) "This is a hugely valuable resource for anyone with family in the Czestochowa/Radomsko area. I would take a wild guess and say that anyone who lived in Czestochowa between the 1890s and the 1920s is listed in these books -- along with spouse, children, birth dates, birth places, and sometimes information like marriage dates and immigration. I have just spent the last few hours putting some samples on the web. I collected these in Czestochowa in May of 2002Posted by Daniel Kazez
Alphabetical Listing of 127
Jews, all professionals, shot in Czestochowa" (List actually
has 446 persons)
http://www.crarg.org/samples.pdf
(The above link includes Czenstochov/Chenstochov) and nearby shtetls: Janow/Janów Klobuck Klomnice Krzepice Lelow/Lelów Mstow/Mstów Praszka Przyrow/Przyrów Szczekociny Zarki A wonderful and informative site http://www.kazez.com/~dan/crarg/
An indexing of *all* Jewish vital records in the Mormon microfilm collection from the years 1826 to 1835 to be posted to the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/
An army recruit list at the
Czestochowa (Poland) Archives is a list for 1885-1906 and 1909-1913 for
Przyrow (near Czestochowa). In all, 504 persons are listed--along with year of birth, names of parents, place of birth, and place of temporary registration. PrzyrowArmy.html
A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya- Dombrau (in German), or
Dabrow/Dabrowie (in Polish), and seemingly part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
"Sefer Kehilath Yehudei Dabrowa Gornicza ve-hurbana" (Book of the Jewish community of Dabrowa Gornicza and its destruction) Pinkas HaKehillot, Poland, vol. 7 http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
The Capital of East Prussia.
After WWII Danzig
was returned to Poland
and re-named GDANSK. Danzig - the Capital of East Prussia. The
Hanseatic League, a guild of northern Polish cities, originally formed to
protect salt and spice trade routes, thrived from the 13th through the 17th
centuries. The association grew in power and eventually controlled all
major trade in fish, grain, amber, fur, ore and textiles. Gdansk was
perfectly situated to take advantage of shipping from the south, traveling
down the Vistula River to the Baltic.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/
jsource/vjw/Danzig.html
Now known asTamobzheg. Galician
towns (83 of the towns are currently in Ukraine and 3 Poland)
No known sites
Dobromil
Birth, Marriage and Death Records held in
Warsaw Archives in Urzad Stanufrom 1886-1925 ... zespol/sygnatura #937 (Births),L'viv has Army Records 1785-1788, 1819-1820, 1811-1887; Warsaw USChas Marriages from
1915-1940; Przemysl hasNotary Records for many years from 1870 to 1939 with some gaps. It appears that the Polish State Archives only has Jewish birth records for the years 1886-1940.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobromil
Formerly called
Kordeshagen, Pommem (Pomerania), Germany; now Dobrzyca (Koszalin),
Poland.It is located on the coast in northern Poland, near
Koszalin. Part of the former province Pommern, Prussia (Germany)pre-WWI, it is now in the re-designated province ofZachodniopomorskie.
Dobrzyca - another town by the same name is located southeast of
Jarocinand northeast of Krotoszyn, due west of
Pleszew. It was formerly known as Dobberschutz, Posen,
German, but now Dobrzyca (Pleszew) Poznan, Poland. It was part of the former province of
Posen, Prussia (Germany)during pre-WWI. Today, it is in the province ofWielkopolska.
These unique shtetls are located at:
Dobrzyca: 248.9 miles NW of
Warsaw
Dobrzyca: 188.5 miles WNW of
Warsaw
Prussia,
or Preussen, was a very large German Kingdom which included parts of both western and eastern Europe in its heyday.
The LDS Family History Library holds microfilms of the Jewish and Civil Records (in varying numbers for each separate place) for all three
Dobrzyca. Just run a place search for Dobrzyca
in their on-line catalog at http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/
FHLC/frameset_fhic.asp
Dobrzyn
(currently called Golub
Dobrzyn)
Located on the Drweca.
There is a survivor who has a web site. The site contains his story, documents and photos http://internex.net.au/~fdobia/
Drobin, Wyszograd, Radzilow, Karelitz and Nowogrodek - information about these towns are available at Seth J. Bookey's Family History website which includes Maps, Photo album, research advice and more http://members.tripod.com/~sethbook/mytree/towns.html
Drogobych #1 and #2
Once inPoland and now in Ukraine.The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html
Drogobych #1 Birth Records - 1877-1899 Marriage Records - 1871-1881, 1884-1891, 1893-1897, 1899 Death Records - none
Drogobych #2 Birth Records - none Marriage Records - none Death Records - 1852-1896, 1898-1899
There are marriage partners from all over the Kielce-Radom area including: Chmielnik, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy Korczyn, Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost,and dozens of local villages.
Located about 23 miles due west of
Punskon the German/Polish border
Frampol
Indices to Jewish vital records of the town of
Frampolfrom 1871-1900 are currently being indexed by the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland team in Warsaw. Frampolhad 1,465 Jewish residents in 1921, out of a total population of about 2,720.
Proximity to Other Jewish Communities:
Frampolis located at Latitude 50/41 and Longitude 22/40, less than 26 miles west of
Zamosc.Some of the pre-war Jewish communities located within 20 miles of
Frampolwere: Goraj, Bilgoraj, Janow Lubelski, Szczebrzeszyn and Zwierzyniec.
Summary of Records Indexed: The database contains thousands of records, so this is a great opportunity to expand on whatever information you might already have discovered. The available indices include those which have already been microfilmed by the Mormons / LDS, as well as those from the
Polish State Archives (PSA), which have not been microfilmed by LDS. As all the LDS records for Frampol are already completely indexed, as soon as the PSA indices are completed ), all available records for
Frampol will be ready to be included in JRI-Poland's database, pending funding of the project. Here's a summary of the available indices to
Frampol records, according to their status:
LDS (3 indexes have already been microfilmed): 1871-1890. Polish State Archives (not microfilmed): 1891-1900 Birth, Marriage and Deaths.Kirsten Gradel kmgradel@dadlnet.dkhas offered to help those with a
known or registered (in JGFF) family interest in Frampol by looking for "their" names of interest in the database. For 1880-90 it also contains names of parents, for 1880-84 ages of deceased, for D 1890 even maiden name of mothers.
Here's asummary of the available indices according to the type of record:
A small shtetl located near Strzyzow, Jaslo and Krosno, in southern
Poland. Photos, History and a link to the 1891 Galician Business Directory, among other links are available at http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/frysztak/frysztak.htm
Gdansk
World War II began here in this city. After WW II, Gdansk is probably
the most successful reconstruction in the country of Poland, what with its
high-gabled houses, its golden fountains and it face toward the sea.
Formerly in Polandand now in Ukraine. The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html
Birth Records - 1860-1893 Marriage Records - none Death Records - 1877-1898
This is a compilation and collation from several sources, with further identifying information about the individuals added by the compiler, my father Ernst Lustig (1921-1999). Please address any corrections, additions, suggestions, and queries to me Roger Lustig trovato@att.net
Once located inPrussia, but now is known as Giogowek, Poland.
Glowaczow
A town in the Kozienice
districtof (before
WW 1) Kielce-Radom GuberniyaJewish vital
records for the years 1883 - 1897are located at the Polish State Archives in Radom.
The Jewish vital records for 1898 - 1940 are available at the
Urzad Stanu Cywilnego (Civil Records Office) in
Glowaczow.
In the early 20th century Duma voter lists for theKozienice districtis mentioned in the Kielce-Radom SIG Journal, Vo. I, No. 1, page 19. http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
Located 60 miles west of Warsawand 15 miles south of
Plock. It is close to Kutno, Lask, Gostynin
and Zychlin. http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/gombin/gombin.html Gombin Jewish Historical and Genealogical Society web site indicating a mass grave of Jews from the nearby
Czerkow Concentration Campand names of those buried in the Catholic cemetery.
This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at
Kibbutz Yakum Israel created by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum. verbin.htm
Duma Czarist Voters List for
Gombin (Gabin); "Gombin: dos Lebn un umkum fun a Yiddish shtetl in
Polyn Gombin":(The Life and Destruction of a Jewish Town in Poland) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
An interesting
Gombin site to visit is Ada Holtzman's which offers much in the way of Polish Heritage, including this shtetl at http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017
"I have researched Catholic Church records for various shteleh and have discovered a few ancestors. It is very difficult research, however, unless you are able to read old
Russian handwriting. In most instances in my case, they were not signed in Hebrew. This added to the difficulties. " This information presented by Betty Provizer Starkman to JewishGen Discussion Group
The
town is about 50 miles NW from Bialystok and a few miles NW from Monki.
It is situated on the right bank of Biebrza River, main town of the
Biebrzanski National Park (bird's Sanctuary, Red Wetlands). Some of
the first battles of the WW I between the Imperial Armies of the Tsar and
Kaiser were fought right there - in the Mazurian swamps. There is a
Yizkor book published for Goniadz. From a posting by Alexander
Sharon
Members of the local Citizens' Guard arrested 40 "Communists" - all of them Jews. After three days of tortures, they murdered all the captives in a local Jewish graveyard and, after that, they plundered their property. The perpetrators intended to burn alive the Jews in a Jewish school at the town's center, but they resigned after some protests of the neighbors, who were afraid of fire. further information can be found at http://www.radzilow.com/tygodnik.htm
During the WW II, almost
all of the Jews perished in Nazi Concentration camps.
The shtetl was located in
Piaseczno county, Mazowieckie Volvodeship
http://flagspot.net/flags/pl-ma-gk.html
Birth Records - 1841-1896, 1898-1899 Marriage Records - 1856-1876, 1878-1895 Death Records - 1851-1881, 1887-1892
These records are one of the most complete set of vital records that are
available for those researching their ancestry in eastern Galicia.
In addition, other nearby smaller towns and villages were required to
register their vital events in Gorodenka. So if your ancestral
towns was very close to Gorodenka, you may find vital records amongst
those that are indexed. See also
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/gorodenka/gorodenka.html
There is a Horodenker Association of Israel currently in existence. The contact is Zvi Weicman, 29 Keren Hayesod St. Ra'anana, Israel 43305
Gorodok
- (Horodok/Grodek, Grodek Jagellonski)
35 km E of Bialystok. The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html
Birth Records - 1870-1876,1886-1892 Marriage Records - none Death Records - 1877-1890
Located near Plock. Also a second
Gradyis near Ostrow Mazowiecki, while another is near
Suwalkiand another near Lublin.Gradyis pronounced "Grundy" or "Grondy"
Grajewo
A Yizkor Book does exist but it has not been translated yet. Contact Ernie
Fine Erfine@aol.comfor further information
Located in Ternopol Oblastabout 7 miles south southeast from Skalat. In the 19th century, it was part of
Skalat District. Records are currently being indexed by AGAD
Grodno
Located at the most north eastern corner of Poland on the Niemen River bordering Lithuania. 136 km to the North is the Baltic sea and the
Polish port city of Gdansk. Before WW II, it was a city of 65,000 inhabitants of which 25,000 were Jews. This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz Yakum Israel built by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum. verbin.htm
"The Last Sunrise" - authored by Harold Gordon (Hirshel Grodzienski) and published by H & J Publishing in 1992. A true story about a ten year old boy who survived the Holocaust, five years in Nazi Concentration Camps and with a positive attitude toward the future. ISBN: 0963258915
Massive records kept by the
German Grodno Amtskommisar for Civil Administration of theBialystok Regionare in the archives of the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. There is a list of the
1901 Minsk Guberniya administrative divisions http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/Vitaly/Minsk%20Uyezd.htm
Once in Poland and now in Ukraine. The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html
Birth Records - 1815-1816, 1818-1876 Marriage Records - 1826, 1851-1852, 1856-1858, 1865-1876 Death Records - none
Birth Records - 1858, 1863, 1870 Marriage Records - none Death Records - none
Gwozdiec
-
(Gwozdziec Miasto/Gvozdets)
This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz Yakum Israel built by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum. verbin.htm
All the records available at AGAD are on-line. This only includes births for the following years: Births: 1858, 1863, 1870
Holendry
There are several villages with the same name:
33.1 miles SSE ofWarsaw; 47.2 miles SSE of Warsaw; 50.6 miles SSE of
Warsaw; 96.9 miles SW ofWarsaw; 147.6 miles ESE of
Warsaw; 107.2 miles S of Warsaw 114.7 miles S ofWarsaw.
A small village named
Holdenryused to be located near the larger parish village Dubryniowin the district Rohatynin
Stanislawow Province. Currently this village is known asDobrynev. There were 71 pre-war Jewish residents from a total of 1,858 villagers in the 1921 census.
TheHolendryin the Lublin region(147.6 miles ESE of Warsaw) had 21 Jews.
The site includes an e-mail discussion list, a researcher's page, a surnames page, plus links of interest concerningHrubieszowgenealogy. Contact: Aaron J. Biterman JewishCol@aol.com
TheInowroclaw Branch of the Polish State Archive 88-100 Inowroclaw, ul. Narutowicza 58, Kierownik dr Lidia Wakuluk Phone (0-536) 57 64 44
Ivangorod
This
town has been incorporated into town that is known nowadays asDeblin in Poland(Yiddish: Demblin - Irena) at 5134 2150, some 60 miles SE fromWarsawin the inflow of River Wieprz into Vistula (Wisla) River.
There are marriage partners' names from all over the Kielce-Radom area including: Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy Korczyn, Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost, and dozens of local villages.
Izbica Lubelski
Located 20-30 miles SE ofLublin. In transliterating Jewish vital records indexes, I came across an abnormal increase in the numbers of deaths in
Izbica during the year 1848.
Generally, there were about 30 - 50 max deaths per year for
Izbica [a town then of about 2,000 in size] during the 1840s - 1860s. In 1848, however, there are 216 recorded deaths, across all age groups!! Over 10% of the population!
Jablonow
This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz Yakum Israel created by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum. verbin.htm
Near
Radomsko and Czestochowa. Daniel Kazez took digital photographs of all of the tombstones in the Jewish cemetery. http://www.kazez.com/~dan/crarg/
This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz Yakum Israel created by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum. verbin.htm
Ada Greenada.Green@postoffice.worldnet.att.nethas cataloged the two cemetery plots for the Chaim Hersch Weiss First Janower Sick and Benevolent Association (Chaim Hersch Weiss Erste Yanover KUV). According to the "Guide to the YIVO Archives", this society was organized by immigrants from
Janow, Polandin 1909 and a group from Stanislawowjoined a year later.
Located in theKovno Uyezd. In JewishGen's ShtetlSeeker, there are Yanovo's/Janowa's in Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Russia.
There are also many towns namedJanowin Poland, including a Janow Podlaski and aJanow
Lubelskie. There is even anotherYonavo Jonava (Yanovo) - located in theKovno Uyezd. In JewishGen's ShtetlSeeker, there are
Yanovo's/Janowa's in Belarus, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Russia.
Ada Green offered a listing of Jonava Societies and Associations associated with the JGSNY Cemetery Project in a posting to the JewishGen Digest group
The Jewish population, or Kehila, in this, the
Czartoryski Territories in 1776, obtained from Appendix I of the book "The
Lords' Jews, Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
during the 18th Century" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 1,884.
Once in the Austrian sector before WW I. Records from 1853 to 1918 - This web site refers to
Records of the Austrian regime from 1901 to 1918 http://infoukes.com/culture/
1,200 of the 1,600 Jews of this shtetl, located in economically depressed northeastern
Poland, were locked in a barn and burned to death on July 10, 1941, not by Nazis, but by their neighbors -- fellow Poles.
Grim details laid out in "Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland", a book by Polish émigré Jan Tomasz Gross, a naturalized American of
Polish and Jewish heritage who is a professor of politics and European studies at New York University, and published by Princeton University Press, helped blow the cover off decades of communist propaganda, and forced
Poles into sober reassessment of their sell-image as victims -- and never collaborators -- in Nazi oppression.
Thebook, "Neighbors," was based, in part, on witness accounts from Jewish survivors and non-Jewish townspeople. There were 1,600
Jedwabne Jews who were murdered and were burned to death.
The Germans had entered the town on June 23, 1941.
Sixty years after the Jews in this village were slaughtered by their neighbors, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski offered an apology and asked forgiveness. A new wood and concrete monument to the victims was unveiled.
The wording reads in
Polish, Hebrew and Yiddish: "In memory of the Jews of Jedwabne and surrounding areas, men, women and children, fellow dwellers of this land, murdered and burned alive at this site on 10 July 1941. Jedwabne, July 10, 2001."
"Sefer Jedwabne: Historiya ve-zikaron Yedwabne":
History and Memorial Book: and Jedwabne "- this site is in
Polish by default with very few English articles are at www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/jedwabne/yedwabne.html
Located about 90 miles south southeast of
Warsawand 10 miles SW of Opole Lubelskie, South ofKazimierz Dolny (south of Pulawy) and about 30 miles west-south-west ofLublin. A web page for this town may be available. For further information on the web page contact Helen Banksneshaver@gn.apc.org
Jurborg
This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz Yakum Israel built by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum. verbin.htm
The Jewish population, or Kehila, in this, the
Czartoryski Territoriesin 1776, obtained from Appendix I of the book "The Lords' Jews, Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 18th Century" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 1,662.
Birth, Marriage and Death indexes are now searchable on the JRI database and include:
Marriage, Death - 1823,
1846, 52 Birth, Marriage, Death - 1824-1828 Marriage Death - 1867 Birth - 1868,
1846,48, 51, 52 Birth, Marriage, Death - 1875-1878 Death - 1886,
1852 Marriage, Death - 1887
Birth Records - 1859-1876, 1880-1884, 1890-1899 Marriage Records - 1866-1876, 1878-1898 Death Records - 1789-1898
Kamiensk
A web site is currently being developed. It was noted that there was only one survivor from this shtetl. The shtetl was located nearPiotrkow-Trybunalski
Kamionka Strumilowa
(Komionka)
Located in theLida
Uyezd, Vilna-Grodno Guberniya. There is a Yizkor Book, but it has not yet been translated.
"Nestled in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains of
Galicia in southeastern Polandlies the small town of
Kanczuga. Most travel guides neglect to mention this community in their regional descriptors, and it rarely appears on any maps. Yet, its place in the history of the Holocaust and its connection to a past I (Sam Intrator) never knew created a large and alluring reference point for me during a recent visit to Poland." http://www.zchor.org/KANCZUGA.HTM
This infamous site, which includes Katyn, Miednoje and Staro Bielskwas the site of a massacre originally thought to be by the Nazis, but as it was later proved out by documents provided to Gorbachev of the Soviet Union, was perpetrated by the KGB to rid them of
Polish POWs that were captured by the Soviets before, June, 21, 1941 - the date that the
Germans invaded Russia. These citizen/soldiers, which included Jews, were executed between March to April, 1940. http://karta.icm.edu.pl/indeks/ind-baz.html
The white building with the gray roof is
the Remuh Synagogue
Old Synagogue in Kazimierz (Krakow)
rebuilt in the 1950s and
houses the Judaica Branch of the Historical Museum
of Krakow.
This district was founded as a separate town
in 1335 by Casimir the Great and by 1495, Jews driven out of Krakow
settled here. There are two synagogues and several restaurants serving
Jewish style food. There are about 1,000 Jews remaining today in the
city.
There is an 18th century museum containing precious Judaica made of gold and silver.
6,046 indices to non-microfilmed Jewish vital records of Kazimierz Dolny (Kuzmir) may be in the JRI-Poland Database. The mid-19th century and the very beginning of the 20th century Jewish vital records of this town have been indexed including 3,238
Births; 586 Grooms; 586 Brides and 1,636
Deaths from 1843 - 1901. The Indexes to non-microfilmed 19th century Kazimierz Dolny Jewish records are housed in the
Lublin Archives.
Formerly in Polandand now in Ukraine. The JRI-Poland /Polish State Archives
lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html
Birth Records - 1830-1871, 1874-1898 Marriage Records - none Death Records - none
There are about 1318 indices for the town in the JRI-Poland database. These include Marriages 1869-84 and Deaths 1870-84 from the LDS / Mormon microfilms
For subscription and membership information, contact Mark Froimowitz, 90 Eastbourne Road, Newton, MA 02459.
An offer to lookup individual marriages for this shtetl was made by David Priceat dprice@sympatico.caon a "if free time available" basis.
TheKielce Branch of the Archives holds the records for
Bodzentyn, Checiny, Daleszyce, Gowarczow, Kielce, Klwow, Konskie, Korzecko, Lopuszno, Nowa Slupia, Opoczno, Przedborz, Przysucha, Radoszyce and Zarnow. For information see the JRI-Poland web site and click on "Polish State Archives" www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
Kielce - Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Asher Gutman
The Jewish population, or Kehila, in this, the
Czartoryski Territories in 1776, obtained from Appendix I of the book "The Lords' Jews, Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 18th Century" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 973.
There are marriage partners from all over the
Kielce-Radom area including: Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy Korczyn, Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost, and
dozens of local villages
Birth, Marriage and Death records for 1832-55, 1858-65, 1868-76, 1880 - 1889, 1891 - 1897 are on the JRI-Poland database. There are also records for 1832-55; 1858-65; 1868-76; 1880-80 and 1891-97. http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
This region was located in Galicia and
part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After WW I, it became part
of Poland. Today it is in the Podkarpacie Province (Volvodeship)
and follow the
Polish links. Also, follow this recently updated site to view the entire English section of "Pinkas Kolbishov" (Kolbuszowa Memorial Book) http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/
"From A Ruined Garden - The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry"
"A Jewish Boyhood in Poland" -
authored by Norman Salitz talks about
Kolbuszowa
Kolbuszowa Region
Some of the towns included in this region:
Blazowa, Debica, Kanczuga, Lancut, Lezajsk, Majdan, Mielec, Nisko,
Pilzno, Przeworsk, Ropczyce, Radomysl, Wielki, Rzeszow, Sokolow Mlp.,
Strzyzow, Tarnobrzeg, Tyczyn, Ulanow and Zolynia For
further information and maps of the area
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kolbuszowa/
Contact for the
Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Shlomo Horowitz
Komarno
Birth and death records have been indexed, but not all the indices have been added to the database. Israel Pickholtzzach4v6@actcom.co.ilis the Town Leader.
Kamionka Wielka and Kamionka Mala
are adjacent and are in the Kolomyja (Kolmea) region
and is the closest locality to the ex-Galicia border, but not as
close to Wien.
Kamionka Strumilowa
(Kamenka Bugskaya)
Located some 20 miles NNE from L'viv,Ukraine in Tranopol region
Rabbi Aaronson Ztz"1 of Sanniki, wrote a diary during his days in the
Konin concentration camp (aka Czerkow) where the men from
Gombin and other towns (Gostynin, Osmolin, Gombin, Zychlin, Sanniki, Jaksice, Plock, Poddebice and others) from the Warthegau
were brought in March, 1942.
This particular area in
Poland incorporating lands around Inowroclaw, Bydgoszcz (German: Bromberg) is known as
Kujawy (Ku ya veeh) and has been incorporated into Warthegau(Wartheland). In close proximity to this land, lies
Torun, the city of Nicolaus Copernicus which became during WW II part of
Reichsgau.
Alei Merorot ("Leaves of Bitterness") authored by the Rabbi's son, Y. Aaronson, B'nai Brak, 1996 was published in Hebrew and Theo Richmond, in his book "Konin a Quest" -published by Vintage Press 1996, ISBN 0 09 940981 x, Page 429, quotes paragraphs from this diary. Use my link to Amazon.com to order.
Included in the diary are lists of victims, List of the 60 survivors who were still alive on 7/8/1943, the eve of the famous revolt in the camp and much more. Read the details in the archives of JewishGen Digest of September 13, 1999, page 12. www.jewishgen.com/
Inside the Catholic Cemetery, near the entrance, stands a mass grave ofJews who were the victims of the
Czerkow (Konin) Forced Labor Nazi Camp
Konskie
A town in
Kielce-Radom Guberniya. More than 2420 Birth, Marriage and Death Records from 1826 to 1868 JRI-Poland Database website www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz Yakum Israel created by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum. verbin.htm
Gideon Carmi carmi_nm@netvision.net.il is looking for volunteers to assist him in the project of transliteration of both
Konskie and Opoczno
The Jewish population, or Kehila, in this, the
Czartoryski Territories in 1776, obtained from Appendix I of the book "The Lords' Jews, Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 18th Century" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 789.
www.jewishgen.org/.../Kielce-Radom%20Journal_Vol%207,%20No%203_Summer%202003.pdf
Kornik
This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz Yakum Israel created by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum. verbin.htm
Koronowo
Located on the Brda River on local road #23, 24 km north of
Bydgoszcz. The German name is Krone an der Brahe
Kosow
Kosow Lacki was a village in the Volvodeship of
Siedlce, north of Sokolow Podlaski, and about six miles from the
Treblinka death camp. The Germans occupied the town in late
September, 1939, and soon thereafter established a Judenrat and ghetto. In
the ghetto there were Jews from various locations, including Kalisz,
Wyszkow, Mlawa and Ostrow Mazowiecka. During the liquidation
of the ghetto in the fall of 1942, the inhabitants were deported to
Treblinka.
http://www.edwardvictor.com/Ghettos/Kosow_Lacki.htm
The Rabbi of
Kozienice, ha Rav Aharon-Yechiel z"l (1889-1942) and his Talmidim and +/- 10,000 Jews from this town and surrounding towns were put on trains at 8:02 pm destined for
Treblinka and never returned.
"The Book of Kozienice: "The birth and the destruction of a Jewish Community"
Located a few kilometers northeast of
Kalisz. Other nearby towns include: Opatowek, Stawiszyn, Ryuchwal, Tuliszkow, Turek, Dobra, Warta, Sieradz, Blaszki, Ostrow Wielkopolska, Mikstat, Kuzmin
and Pleszew http://www.suef.dial.pipex.com/main5.html
Indices for the years 1880-1900 are available: Births 1880-1900 Marriages 1885-1886 and 1889-1892
Kruke was the Yiddish name of Krakow which, until 1918, was once,
for centuries, the capital of
Western Galicia as part of the Austrian- Hungarian Empire.
Today, this is a city of 747,000, located on the Vistula River and about 100 miles north of Poland's southern border with
Slovakia, which dates to the 19th century and was the home of Poland's kings until about 1600. Jewish life once flourished in the town. In the 14th century, this was a prosperous mercantile town, and Jew began to settle here. Dynamic communities of traders and shopkeepers were integral to the character of the town and today once can trace a lot to the former Lustig house.
Before WW II, about 50,000 Jews lived in
Krakow; only 1,000 remained after the war. Now, a little more than 100 Jews live here, worshiping in the last two active synagogues in the Kazimierz neighborhood, just south of the Old Town. One of these is the
Remuh Synagogue on Szeroka Street, built in 1553, when
Krakow's Jewish community was the largest in Europe.
The
Remuh Synagogue; the Temple Synagogue; and the
Isaac Synagogue.
Everybody inKrakowlived inDzielnica.The word means a "city quarter" or district. Dzielnica Stare Miastois old town. Other districts of
Krakowinclude Dzielnica Kazimierz (aka. Jewish) Dzielnica Podgorze (where the ghetto was), Dzielnica Krowodrza, Dzielnica Wesola, Dzielnica Ludwinow, etc. (See Podgorze below)
During WW II, the Old Synagogue in
Kazimierz, was desecrated and looted by the Nazis, used as a storage facility, and ultimately destroyed. The building was rebuilt in the 1950s and currently is the home of the Judaica Branch of the
Historical Museum of Krakow.
The
Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive's Virtual Cinema has footage of Jewish
Life In Cracow
http://www.spielbergfilmarchive.org.il/kv/index.html
Podgorze District - there is a memorial in the Plac Bohaterow Getta (Heroes
of the Ghetto) commemorating the Jews who were gathered here, with only
the belongings they could carry, before deportation to death camps.
The Plac memorial consists of 70 metal chairs, symbols of the
abandoned furniture of the some 18,000 Jews who were taken away from the
Ghetto
The Ghetto in Cracow
existed until March 13, 1943 when the 68,000 Jews were annihilated - few survived.
1935 Krakow Directory - has an extensive listing of house occupants - both Jewish and non-Jewish - for most of the city. Its importance lies in the fact that this was one of the last directories issued prior to the Holocaust, and that the names of all family members are usually listed. It can be assumed that the vast majority of Jewish individuals listed in this directory perished during the Holocaust.
Over 2,300 Jewish surnames and about 4,000 first names have beenextracted from the directory and can be seen by following the "What's New?" link on
ShtetLinks Krakow at http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/krakow/default.asp.
Jewish Cemetery is located
next to the Remu'h Synagogue was destroyed by the Germans
and later restored.
There is a site that offers 65,000 index entries in their database. The Krakow Burial register is online for the New Cemetery, 55 ul. Miodowa, for the years 1922-39 and 1945-1961
www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/
Here you will find half of the 1795 Census, Births from 1798 to 1809 and Marriages from 1798 to 1808, along with a search engine, later birth/marriage/death records, early family trees and other
Jewish Krakow document links.
Tuesday, March 14, 2000 marked the 57th anniversary of the final liquidation of this ghetto. Photographs and information submitted to the Wiesenthal Center's http://www.wiesenthal.com/children/
Krakow Province -
The census of the Jewish population in the province of
Krakow (which was made in Janow and Czestochowa) shows there were 623 Jews in both cities; half of them lived in
Janow. The year was 1765
The market square is known as
"The Ryuek Glowny and is the great piazza of Europe -
Siena and Brussels notwithstanding. The
Sukiennice, the medieval Cloth Hall, stands in the
center of the Rynek, and was begun in the 13th century.
Today it houses a gallery, an arcade of craft and souvenier
stalls and the Noworolski Cafe.
Rabbi of Krakow in 2005 is Avraham Flaks, the first since WW II.
This town had a large and learned Jewish community since 1423 and had a famous publishing house of Judaica. The town is located 65 km north northeast of
Wroclaw.It was part of Poland until the dissolution of
Poland at the end of the 18th century.
For the next 140 years, until 1918, it was in
Posen Province, Prussia(Grenzmark Posen-Westpreussen). In 1939 if fell to the Nazi new order - Reichsgau Wartheland. With the rebirth of the
Polish Republic in 1918, the town found itself in Poland, and within five years, 95% of the Jewish community transferred to
Germany, mostly to Breslauand Berlin.
According to Ruben Frankensteinfrankens@uni-freiburg.dethere are no Jewish remnants of the old Jewish community whatsoever. The FHC has two microfilms of the survivingKrotoszynvital records Birth Marriage Death records for the years 1825 to 1841 Film #:743,091 and BMD 1842-1847 Film # 743,092 Maps detailing the partitions of
Poland are at http://members.aol.com/genpoland/changes.htm
There appears to be additional records available, according to Miriam Weiner's " Jewish Roots in Poland" book including Census, Land, Notary and Local Government Records.
The Jewish Historical Institute (JHI) in
Warsawhas Death Records from 1846-1943. It is not known if these are complete. Further information can be found here. (go to the link marked Jewish Historical Institute). www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
but be aware that this site is written in
Polish. However, Tomasz Liniecki at
liniecki@poczta.onet.comoffers to do some
translation for free
Krynica-Zdroj
In
1880, 5163 people of Jewish origin (46% of the population)
lived in this area and were involved in tailoring,
engraving, trade in wood and agriculture products. By the
end of XIX century Gymnasium of Lord Hirsch Foundation was
founded. In 1910 there were 7990 people of the Jewish origin
(32% of population) and in 1921 - 9009 people (34%).
http://en.hotelprezydent.com/Autochthon-Population-of-Sadecka-Land
There is a Yizkor Book (not translated) Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from
Poland in Israel is Haim Sheinberg. There is a Yizkor Book,
entitled "Krynki in Khurbn" that was edited by Alex Sofer and
published in 1948 in Montevideo, Uruguay by the "Krynki Residents Aid
Committee" from Montevideo, Uruguay and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
It appears not to be the same book listed on the JewishGen Yizkor Book
database. There are three sections: people remembered by families from
Montevideo; people remembered by families from Buenos Aires; and a
list of signature or contributors. The list is of both Krynker
victims and Uruguay and Argentine residents.
Krynki Forum - a
site to discuss this shtetl and others.
A small town just northwest of
Czestochowa, Poland.This Holocaust list includes 252 persons, printed in Hebrew characters on two large sheets of paper, with no information except this title: "Martyrs Scroll of Landsmen of Krzepice, Poland and its Surroundings who Perished in the Holocaust."
"On behalf of the Czestochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group, I would like to share a list of
Krzepice (Poland) Holocaust victims sent to us by long-time Krzepice resident Harry Rozyn. Transliteration work was done by members of our group: Motty Fishman, Yoram Grizim, and Merav Schejtman." This information obtained from a posting on JewishGen on 4/25/03 by Daniel Kazez. The complete material is at: http://www.kazez.com/~dan/Czesto-Rad/Krzepice-Holo.html
(See important information in the book"Do Not Go Gentle - A Memoir of Jewish Resistance in Poland, 1941-1945" authored by Charles Gelman
ISBN 0-208-02230-9 - Use my Amazon.com link to your left in side bar
All available
Kurow vital records are available at the JRI-Poland Database. The Kurow Jewish births, marriages and deaths between 1810-1847 were filmed by the Mormons, typed by volunteers, and now appear in the JRI-Poland database... And the subsequent years, 1862-1902 (some registers apparently didn't survive, and 1855-1857 are being repaired by the Archives) were recently indexed by the JRI-Poland team! The PSA records include Births between 1862-1902 and Deaths between 1871-1902. http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
There are marriages from all over the Kielce-Radom area including: Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy
Korczyn, Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost, and dozens of local villages
There are marriage partners from all over the
Kielce-Radom area including:
Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lipsko, Nowy Korczyn, Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost, and dozens of local villages
Lancut
Located in central western Galicia and the shtetl leader is Peter Jassem at jassep@tdbank.ca
A baroque synagogue which has a large collection of Judaica exists. From 1816 to 1944, Lancut was in possession of the Potocki family. They took proper care of the Lubormirski Place complex which was surrounded with a stunning park with a little romantic castle, picturesque bridges and rose gardens. During WW II in 1939, the synagogue was set on fire by the Germans, but hanks to the influence and pleas of Alfred Potocki, the fire was extinguished. There is a Jewish cemetery which contains the grave of Rabbi Horowitz.
There is also a town in East Prussiaknown as
Gorowo Ilaweckie in Olsztyn province.This town, is in northeast
Poland and is thirty miles south of Kalingrad,near the USSR border. It was noted for its grain and cattle market. 3,120 residents lived there in 1939, but only 939 remained. For a short time, it was also known as
Gorowo Pruskie
Lask
At the present time,
Lask is in Wojewowodztwo Sieradzkie.In 1902 it was in
Lodz Guberniya. Lasktoday is a part of Lodz Voyevodship (Province) A web site is currently being developed. For information contact Joe Ross joeross1220@comcast.net
Records for this town are a part of the collection of Jewish Vital records located in the
Suwalki Archives and not filmed by the Mormons. Researchers interested in obtaining the JRI-PL Excel spreadsheet containing all of the Lazdijai records of this project covering the years 1856-1896 should contact Lillian Faffer at lfaffer@juno.com
Before WWI, Lesko was in the
Galicia province and later in the Soviet Ukraine in Drohobyts'ka oblast, Ukraine. It was in the part of
Galicia that is now Poland and is located south of Przemysl and Sanok.
There is an old Jewish cemetery. "Lizhensk; Sefer Zikaron le-Kedoshei Lizhensk she-Nispu be shoat ha-Natsim" (Memorial Book of the Martyrs of Lezajsk who perished in the
Shoah. http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
Records of Lezajsk marriages 1898-1901 have been indexed by the JRI-Poland team. They are also expecting to index the birth records 1902-1906 in the future. Surnames found in the new index: ADLER(5), BELLER(4), BOHRER (6), ENGELBERG (7), FELDMAN (4), KATZ (6), LINDENBAUM (4), OEHLBAUM (4), ROSENBLUETH (4), SPATZ (4), SPERGEL (4) SPIRA (4), SPRUNG (6), STELZER (5), WACHTELKOENIG (5), WALDMAN (4), WASSERMAN (4).
Towns mentioned in the new index: (Number of entries follows the name)
Rudick (19), Sieniawa (18), Sokolow (11), Ulanow (37), Zolynia (12), Kurylwka (9), Grodzisko (32)
If you would like to know the number of times other surnames appears in the new indices or more about the
Lezajsk Town project, please contact Evan Stolbach, Town Leader, Lezajsk estolb7395@aol.com
Lida Uyezd Lida Uyezd (District) History and Maps of this former Polish town that has been under
Russian, Poland and Lithuania flags. Today, it is a part of Belarus. http://www.Jewishgen.org/
52=B050' / 19=B012' 137.8 kilometers WNW of Warsaw,located on the road between Wloclawek and Torun.A history, including photos is at www.zchor.org/lipno/lipno.htm
Southeast of Dolina - currently it is known as
Lypovytsya at 4846 2403 in the western part of Ukraine.
"Referred by WOWW, Pinkas HaKehillot, Poland, vol. II - Eastern Galicia, ed. 1980, p.436 lists Lipowice in Przemysl region. This village was actually known as Lipowicaand together with near by Zakluczynwas incorporated within town Dukla after WWI. For some unknown reasons ShtetlSeeker and
MapQuest claim that Lipowica in Poland still there, when it is not.
Pinkas HaKehillot does not recognizeLipowica in Dolina region,
but town was there, still there, and 1929 Directory quotes D. LUSTIG, the tobaconeer. Actually, 1929 lists five local business from which four were Jewish - beside LUSTIG, there are names MAJER, BLEI and LONDNER.
Lipowica and near by village Suchodol (2.5 miles apart) are located deep in the mountains in the valley of Checheva River surrounded by 3000' + peaks of the Eastern Beskid. Actually village name is taken from the 4,000' high peak Lipowica (also known in Hungarian as Syhlos). Village Suchodollists two businesses and both were owned by Jews: DIAMAND and NAGEL.
You should add to your search list Suchodolas it is obviously a sister village of Lipowica since WOWW claims 39 Jewish population in this village.
I couldn't identify even traces of the Jewish population in 1880 in Lipowica or Suchodolin "Geographic Dictionary of Kingdom of Poland" which is not surprised at all.
In the both topographic maps, pre WWI and the fairly current one of the region, there are Mogen David icons which identify Jewish cemeteries or their remains.
Lets take a 14 miles long trip North through the valley on the road parallel to the Checheva River from Lipowica (mile "0") to Dolina, region's administration Centre and the district court seat.
Mile '0' - Lipowica- Jewish cemetery west from the village on the river's right bank
Mile '2.5' - sister village Suchodol- Jewish cemetery on the village outskirt upstream the river (not shown on the modern map)
Mile '4.7' - village Luhy, not identified in WOWW and Pinkas HaKehillot, but 1929 Directory lists three businesses in the village, two of them are own by Jews: B. DIAMAND, wood (same name as businessman in Suchodol) and J. H. JOLLES, water flour mill owner, Jewish cemetery.
Mile '8.2' - village Spas, Jewish pre WWII population 50 souls, amongst them P. LUSTIG, tavern and liquor store owner. Pre WWI map identifies three Jewish sites, none are shown today. Another town name to be added to your search list.
At Spas there is a road fork - right road to town Rozniatow, ~5 miles distance (Jewish population 1,349) and the left road goes to Dolina (Jewish population 2,014 souls).
2. Lipowica Records
Where are the Jewish records - for all the above mentioned in our trip villages and shtetls: Lipowica, Suchodol, Luhy, Spas, Rozniatow and Dolina?
Logically, vital records should be located in Dolina. Dolinawas the District's Administrative Centre and seat of the Judicial districts from 1867 and it has been confirm as the Centre town in the all further Galicia divisions of 1876, 1890, 1904 and 1906.
Furthermore, during the interwar (1918-1939) Poland administration period, Dolina has retain its status as the Administrative District Centre, as all above mention towns were part of Dolina Powiat (district).
And there is a question: where are the Dolina vital records? In Miriam Weiner two books (Poland and Ukraine/Moldova), Dolina is listed only once as the depository of Dolina land records are located in Lwów, not a word about location of the vital records.
Bolechow and Rozniatow were two major Jewish towns inDolina Administrative District, and both were the seats of the Judicial Districts. Bolechow records are located in AGAD Archives under "Bolechow", but not the Rozniatow's.
Any suggestion as to the "missing" records for Dolina in AGAD Archives would be appreciated." From a posting by Alexander Sharon
There are marriage partners from all over the
Kielce-Radom area including: Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Nowy Korczyn, Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost,and dozens of local villages
Includes:
Belchatow; Radomsko; Tomaszow; Mazowiecki and Tuszyn; Grocholice; Kamiensk; Piotrkow Trybunalski; Przedborz; Rozprza; Sulejow; Sulmierzyce; Szczercow, Ujazd
and Zarnow
Lodz
The town of
Lodz in Poland is not pronounced anything like 'lodge'. It is
pronounced
'woodge'. The
Russian letter 'P' is pronounced 'R'. The city was one of the largest Jewish centers at the outbreak of WW II with a Jewish population of 202,497 in 1931 - nearly 33% of the population of
Lodz. Of the Jewish population after WW II, only 870 survived. Most of the Jews were murdered in the camps of
Plasz - near Cracow, Belzec, Sobibor, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau (Oswiecim). Several large textile mills were owned by Jews including the Israel K. Poznanski plant, one of the largest in Europe.
Chevra Kadisha Records
of 19th century Lodz, including more
than 5,000 deaths and burials listened in Stary Cmentarz Zydowski w Lodzi
(the Old Cemetery of Lodz), published by the Jewish Community of Lodz
in 1938.
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/lodzchev/lodzchevrakad.htm
Indices to 10,876 city of Lodz, birth, marriage and death records from 1899 and 1900 are on-line in the JRI-Poland database. http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
Indices to city of Lodz for the year 1901 have been indexed are pending to be posted. Additional years awaiting posting are: 1902 (6,952 records); 1903 (6,405 records); 1904 (7,290 records) and 1905 (6,088 records)
Prior to World War II, one-third of the 665,000 inhabitants of the Polish city of
Lodz were Jewish. On September 8, 1939, the city was captured by the Germans and renamed "Litzmannstadt". In 1940, a ghetto was created and sealed off. Transports arrived from many other towns in
Polandand throughout Europe.
Population registry books were kept by the Judenrat (Jewish council) of the
Lodz ghetto, from the time of establishment of the Ghetto in February 1940 until just prior to its liquidation in August 1944. The records were maintained by apartment address, and were updated on a continuing basis. In addition to the names of the residents in an apartment, these records sometimes include the former addresses, dates of birth, occupation, and date of deportation or death of the individual.
There are approximately 242,000 separate entries on the database, which tracks the movement of individuals into, within, and out of the ghetto.
Yad Vashem, with the assistance of the Organization of Former Residents of Lodz in Israel, was able to purchase a copy of the registers from the Polish State Archives. The result was published by the Organization of Former Residents of Lodz in Israel in a five volume set: "Lodz-Names: List of the Ghetto Inhabitants, 1940-1944", and was later digitized by volunteers at Yad Vashem. From a posting by Warren Blatton JewishGen 7-3-04
Lodz - Indices to 50,000 Jewish birth, marriage and death records are being added to the JRI-Poland database. These records are from the years 1878 through 1898. There are more than 35 towns in this region. http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-Pl
Lodz Ghetto List:
The Judenrat of the Lodz ghetto kept detailed records of the 200,000 residents of the ghetto. These records were published as "Lodz Names", a 5 volume book, in 1989, as a joint effort of Yad Vashem and the Organization of Former Residents of
Lodz in Israel (OFRLI).
This book is available at the
Yad Vashem library, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (Yizkor book section), and the libraries of Stanford University, Notre Dame University and the University of Toronto. The list is also held by OFRLI in Tel Aviv and may possibly be with other organizations.
The Lodz ghetto was the deportation destination for Jews from all of East Europe. The list of all Jews incarcerated in ... and deported to the Lodz ghetto ... is in the
Lodz Archives. http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Lodz/newdisc.htm
Lodz ShtetLinks home page offers wonderful information about this town and travel to Poland. Symcha Keller is the current head of the
Jewish Community in Lodzand his address is on this web page, along with the Lodz Ghetto List, published as "Lodz Names: List of the Ghetto Inhabitants, 1940-44". http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Lodz/Lodz.htm
Prior to 1795, Jews were forbidden to live inLomza, however, with the coming of the Prussian administration,Lomzaand the surrounding area became part of New East Prussia and Jews then settled the area. One of the best sources for information on
Kolno and surrounding towns is the Suwalki-Lomza Interest Group http://www.jewishgen.org/suwalklomza/
Information about the restoration of the Jewish cemetery and a partial listing of the names of the deceased are available
The Lomza Archives branch possesses vital statistic records of the
Lomza Jewish community from 1827-1900. The costs as of April 1, 2001 were quoted as follows:
Initial payment for checking what materials are available in order to arrange a reply to your inquiry - $30; cost of a one hour of research - $15; Xerox copy of 1-2 page document - $10. In case of a negative result the initial payment is not reimbursed, and in the case of a positive result, the initial payment is deducted form the total amount. If you agree to the beginning of a research, you make an initial payment for $30 to the bank account as listed here:
Archiwum Panstwowe w Bialymstoku Powszechny Bank Kredytowy
S.A. w Warszawie 1 Oddzial w Bialymstoku
11101154-411150000686
and send copy of a document confirming the payment to the address of the Archive and they will start the research upon its receipt
"Loshits: le-zeykher an umgebrakhter Kehila" (Losice: In Memory of a Jewish Community Poland)
In the Losice Yizkor Book On page 256, one finds a photo of a gravestone marker with the names of seven Losice Jews who were killed by the Nazis in Losice. The caption states that this marker is at the Jewish cemetery in
Siedlce. http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
A legal document granting
Losice the privileges of a town signed by King Alexander Jegiellonczyk on May 10,1505 in
Radom. It is written in Latin. www.losice.pl/archiwum.html
A small village located around 50 km NNE of
Przemysl in the southeastern corner of Polandin the
Podkarpacie Districtpreviously known as the Przemysl District.
In 1931, there were 6,291 citizens of which 1,794 were Jews.
The newspapers read by the Jewish community were
"Kurier Codzienny" and "Nowy
Dziennik"and "Chwila". In the Yiddish language: "Haint", (Moment) and some illustrated magazines. Those papers were published in
Warsawand Krakowbefore WW II.
"A Beginner's Tutorial" http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/lubaczow/bgntut.htm Here you will find under different sections with English explanations and Hebrew texts; Introduction; The Stone; Two Small Letters in Hebrew; Decorations; The Hebrew Calendar - A Mini Dictionary; The Hebrew Language; The End. The text is based on the gravestones photographed at the Jewish Cemetery in
Lubaczow by Howard Bodenstein in 1999 and shown on the web site. There are still around 1,600 gravestones.
Boasted the world's largest Talmudic school,
Jeshybot (Yesyhbot). The building survived WW II and now is the Medical Academy (The Collegium Maius Three hundred thousand Jews from the province were murdered. There is a Jewish cemetery with graves of famous rabbis dating from the beginning of the 16th century. There is also a small synagogue where there is a display of ritual and historical documents of the former Jewish community. Inside the former yeshiva, there remains an old lecture room as well as a commemorative room showing the history of the building.
In the cemetery, tombstones dating back to the early 1500s still remain. The new cemetery is still used by the small Jewish community of
Lublin. The Majdanek death camp is about 2 miles from the town. More than 100,000 Jews were killed there.
An offer to lookup individual marriages for this shtetl was made by David Price dprice@sympatico.caon a "if free time available" basis.
"A Guide to Jewish Lublin and Surroundings" - authored by Andrzej Trzcinski and published in 1991. a small book focused on Jewish history and culture in Lublin. Contains three different self-guided walking tours around Lublin, as well as four car excursions. Describes both Jewish and non-Jewish sites. Includes maps and illustrations.
In the
Lublin branch of the Polish State Archives, there is a comprehensive list of the residents of the
Majdan Tatarski Ghetto. A copy exists at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
There is a
list of residents of a tenement building in Lublin located at ul. Krawiecka 41 who lived there as of June 12, 1939 http://www.jewishgen.org/
There are on-going projects for
82 towns in the Lublin area which have records stored in the Lublin branch of the Polish State Archives. So far, we have already indexed the following towns -
Lublin, Lubartow, Kazimierz Dolny, Slawatycze, Michow Lubartowska, Dubienka, Wlodawa, Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Biala Podlaska, Kamionka, Wieniawa, Piaski, Irena, Belzyce.
For further information, contact Robinn Magid RobinnM@aol.com"If your family was in the
City of Lublinin the 20th century, particularly if you think your family was in Lublin the 1940's, please contact me privately and let me know your family names. I may have information of genealogical value to your research and you may be interested to learn about my work with Lublin books and records." From a posting by Robinn Magid
Lubno
A town in the Brzozow district, Dynow sub district. This area is now in
Poland. So far, no Jewish records have been found for this district according to a posting to JewishGen by Suzan Wynne on 4-3-02
Luboml - (Libivne)
This village disappeared from the face of the earth on October 1941 when the Nazis destroyed it.
Northwestern view of the Great Synagogue, with shtiblekh (small prayer houses) at right, ca. 1930.
Collection of Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Sztuki http://www.luboml.org/
Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Yaacov Kesselbrenner
Lutomiersk
This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz Yakum Israel recreated by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum. verbin.htm
Once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and then Poland - between the wars -- it became part of the Soviet Union in 1939. When WW II began, Ukraine's Jewish population numbered some 1.5 million, with 200,000 in Lvov. There remains the ruins of the main Synagogue and Golden Rose Synagogue, the Pas house, Hasidic school and Synagogue, former hospital founded by Dr. Rappaport, Yad Harusym building, hose of Sholom Aleichem, monument of the victims of the Jewish Ghetto, Yaniv cemetery and Yaniv concentration camp.
In theLublinbranch of the
Polish State Archives,there is a comprehensive list of the residents of theMajdan Tatarski Ghetto. A copy exists at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/lublin%20ghetto.html
Coordinates 5230 2001 is about 2 miles distance away from Bodzanow. "Monkolin" in Polish is written as Ma,kolin. The 'secret' f the confusion is hidden in the letter 'a' with the attached to it 'tail' ('ogonek' in Polish). This diacritic mark pronounces 'a,' as 'on' or sometimes 'om'.
http://www.polishjews.org/places/005.htm
Makow Mazowieckie
Located north of
Warsaw. Prior to WW I, it was known asMakowand was in the
Lomza Guberniya.
Located about 9 km from
Kopychintsyand in the 1929 Poland Business Directory, this village had 914 people. Jewish names appearing in this town include
Sch. Bilgora; Benjamin Buk, L. Buchsbaum
This site is constantly being updated and includes the Birth, Marriage and Death records of Nowy Dwor Maz., Radzymin, Serock, Sochocin and Zakroczym. These records are kept in the Nowy Dwor Mazowiecka Branch of the Polish State Archives and not all records are available for all towns and all years
Located not far from Brest. The Jewish population, or Kehila, in this, the Czartoryski Territories in 1776, obtained from Appendix I of the book "The Lords' Jews, Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 18th Century" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 1,075.
Rafal Pinczuk lives in this town and has offered any information, photos or
help you might need about the town and the surrounding area. Email: rafalpinczuk@poczta.onet.pl
This was not really a shtetl, but rather
a hamlet near shtetl Miasktkowo, located halfway on the road #61
Ostroleka-Lomza.
Miastkowo Poduchowne
Both appear on Poland list of the
localities piror to WW II, but are not shown on the modern maps. Most
probably they were both hamlets and have been integrated by Miastkow
as it has happened to numerous small localities.
Data from one of
Mlawa's three LDS films has been added to the JRI-Poland site.
You will now find indices from
Mlawa for the following records and years: Births: 1829, 30,32,34-36,38-40,42-47,66-70,72-74,76-79,81-83,85,87-88,90,91,93,96 Marriages: 1822, 23,25,35,36,38-40,42-47,66-70,72-74,76-79, 85,87-88,90,91,93,96 Deaths: 1829, 30,32,34-36,38-40,42-47,66-70,72-74,76-79,81-83,85,87-88,90,91,93,96
Mlawa Memorial at Kiriat Shaul cemetery inTel Aviv. The memorial web page of Mlawa with a lot of material: http://www.zchor.org/INDMLAWA.HTM
Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from
Poland in Israel is Moshe Peles
The Jewish population, or Kehila, in this, the
Czartoryski Territories in 1776, obtained from Appendix I of the book
"The Lords' Jews, Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth during the 18th Century" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 286.
This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz Yakum Israel recreated by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display
Nasielsk
This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz Yakum Israel recreated by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum. verbin.htm
Located in the Zaglebie
area, is a city near Tarnobrzeg. Jews were murdered here by the Nazis
Novoselycja
(Gorishne Zaluchchja)
When under Galicia rule, it was in
Sniatyn County (Polish spellings were Nowosielica, Dzurow, and Zalucze nad Czeremoszem = Zalucze on the Czeremosz River).
Novoselycja is just southwest of Dzuriv (about 15 miles southwest of Sniatyn, or about half way to Kosiv), and
Dzuriv in turn is 7 or 8 miles west ofZalucze. Before WW II, their population, according to Kubijivich were
Novoselycja 1880 (30 Jews), Dzuriv 2,810 (60 Jews), and Zalucze3,680 (90 Jews)
Births: 1877-1879, 1890-1894; Deaths: Nil; Marriages: 1877-1893.
Novyye Strelishcha ( the current name of this town, now located in Ukraine) records from the 1890s and the 20th century (up to the early part of WW II) are stored at the AGAD Archives Branch of the Polish State Archives -
Warsaw Urzad Stanu Cywilnego (Civil Records Office) Research requests should be directed to that office
There are marriage partners from all over the
Kielce-Radom area including:
Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost, and dozens of local villages
Nowy Mlyna
(Nowego Mlyna, Nowe Mlyny)
This town had a population of only 27
before WW II, but was destroyed by the Nazis. Nowy Mlyn was not a
town, but as its name says, just a mill. It was in the Kielce
region.
It is located near Wolanow
and is listed in the 1929 Poland Business Directory
http://www.polishjews.org/places/006.htm
There are two Yizkor Books for this town founded in 1204 and located in
Western Galicia now southern Poland. The Chassidic dynasty of the Halberstams were from this community, which was small, but very important to Jews in pre-war Galicia and then
Poland. A JewishGen member discusses this shtetl http://jewisgen.org
The purpose of the group is to have a means where those researching
Nowy Saczor adjacent towns can have a forum for discussion, to ask questions, swap family stories, etc.
This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz Yakum Israel recreated by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum. verbin.htm
There are marriage partners from all over the
Kielce-Radomarea including: Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy Korczyn, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost, and dozens of local villages
Oleszyce
Jewish vital records in the Przemysl Branch of the Polish State Archives
include 2,040 Births, 101 Marriages and 1,508 Deaths http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/
There are no Mormon microfilms of Jewish vital records for this town. There is an old Jewish cemetery
Olkusz
There are marriage partners from all over the
Kielce-Radom area including: Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy Korczyn, Olesnica, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost, and dozens of local villages. http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
Olszany (Vil'shany in Polish)
The Polish National Archives in
Przemyslhas the older records of Olszany. The Registry Office,
Urzad Stanu Cywilnego, of Olszany, is located in Krasiczyn, has the newer records.
There are marriage partners from all over theKielce-Radom area including: Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy Korczyn, Olesnica, Olkusz, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost,and dozens of local villages.
There is a Yizkor Book - "Apt; A Town Which Does Not Exist Anymore" and the English portion (16 pages) can be read on the Opatow Yizkor Book Project page which gives a detailed account of this famous Chassidic town's history and destruction. http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/opatow/opatow.html
BMD Records (Birth, Marriage
and Death)over 3,440translatedBMD recordscovering 1826-1847 and more than 2420 BMDtranslated records from Konskiecovering1826-1845 (some to 1887, but are written in Polish or Russian) are available online, in the Jewish Record Indexing (JRI) - Poland Website: http://www.jewishgen.org
One of the principal Russian Polish Jewish
centers (in Russian: Belostok), incorporated into Russia between
1807 and ..... It appears that the Polish State Archives only has
Jewish birth records for the years 1886-1940.
There are marriage partners from all over theKielce-Radom area including: Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy Korczyn, Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost,and dozens of local villages
Oswiecim
(Oswiecem, Auschwitz)
This infamous town was, before WW II, a predominantly Jewish town until it became 'the hell that it was as Auschwitz.'
Currently. There is a synagogue located in a building once used by a small group of worshippers, the Chevra Lomdei Mishnayot (the Society for the Study of the Mishna). The structure had to be extensively renovated, but at least - unlike many more impressive synagogues in
Oswiecim - it survived the war because the Germans used it as an ammunition storehouse.
There remains a Jewish cemetery in
Oswiecim (Auschwitz/Ushptzin). Although the cemetery itself was virtually destroyed during the War, many (about 800) of the stones survived and have been re-erected (although not presumably in their original locations).
In 2000, the last Jew living in Auschwitz, Shimshon Klueger,
died. He had lived as a recluse in a hovel and he was,
at one time a member of the Belzer Hasidic sect.
In 1997 the Jewish Community in the nearby town of
Bielsko-Biala took over responsibility for the cemetery, and decided to compile an inventory of the stones. This task was delegated to Jacek Proszyk, a Warsaw University student who had previously carried out similar work in the cemeteries of
Bielsko-Biala (Bielitz, Biala) itself, Zywiec (Saybusch), Milowka, Skoczow (Skotschau), Cieszyn (Teschen) and Ustron. Anyone wishing to find out more about the cemetery in
Oswiecim, or other cemeteries mentioned can contact Jacek Proszyk e-mail ariel@pik-net.pl
Located in southeast Poland, eighty km from
Kielce. About one hundred monuments remain in the 2.5 acre plot of the
Jewish cemetery which dates back nearly four hundred years.
The town was in Opatow Powiat of Radom Guberniyaof the Kingdom of Poland in the Russian Empire before WWI. http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
There are marriage partners from all over the
Kielce-Radomarea including: Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy Korczyn, Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost, and dozens of local villages
Ozorkow
Located 20 miles (32 km) NW of
Lodz and had a large Jewish population before the Shoah. Some of the towns located close by are:
Lodz, Aleksandrow, Lodzki, Piatek, Zgierz, Leczyca, Kutno, Strykow. There are indices available including
Marriages: 1844-55, 1888-1889; Deaths: 1887 - 90, 1897 - 1902 Surnames found in the
Ozorkow indices are available www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/psa/ozorkow_surn.htm
There are marriage partners from all over theKielce-Radom area including: Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy Korczyn, Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost,and dozens of local villages
This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz Yakum Israel built by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum. verbin.htm
Peremysl (Peremyshl' in
Ukraine, Prymsl)
A city that is now in Poland and located very near the border with
Ukraine.
click on "Polish State Archives" then on "Status Reports: PSA Projects Underway" then scroll down to Leczyca Branch and click on the town name
'Piatek'.
The indexing of the 2002 births, marriages and deaths recorded 1842 through 1867 is now completed. ThePiatek database now indexes 4,355 births, marriages and deaths, for the years 1842 through 1899. Other nearby towns includeZychlin, Kutno, Bielawy, and Brzezin
Dorshei Tov Anshei Pinsk - later changed to Ezras Achim Bnei Pinsk.
From a posting by Jerry Seligsohn on JewishGen jselig3460@aol.com
Pinsk Cemetery is now only a fenced-off area. See
Belarus Law above.
Pinsk Landsmanshaftn name lists www.jewishgen.org/belarus Scroll down on the right until you come to "Pinsk Organizations", and click on it. "This is the third Pinsk Landsmanshaft listed on the Belaruswebsite. The first was a benevolent society, the second a group of fur workers, and the latest a
Workman's Circle. This should give those interested in the Pinsk area a wider perspective of Pinskers in America. I have not limited this message to the Belarus website because Pinsk is as much associated with Poland as with its present eastern roots. We often see correspondents seeking their roots in Pinsk. I wonder if they consult the Pinsk Landsmanshaft name lists found on the Belarus website. Particularly useful on this latest name list is the date that the member joined the Circle. Some names joined before 1905 which might place their date of birth in the 1870's. I would suggest that all who joined prior to 1925 could be cross checked on the Ellis Island database. You already have Pinsk as the city of origin." From a posting by Jerome Seligsohn Photo of Pinsk Synagogue http://members.tripod.com/~mikerosenzweig/polsynagog.htm
Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Nachum Bone
Located 42 kilometers (26 miles south-southeast) of Lodz. It is perched upon the Odra River and the veritable maze of islands and bridges that make up the city have gained it the title of the "Venice of Poland". It was an important Jewish cultural, religious and Hebrew publishing center in pre-war Poland. There were three weekly Yiddish newspapers and numerous Jewish organizations and institutions. When it was still part of
Germany, the Jewish community boasted around 20,000 persons; it had the second largest synagogue in the country.
Jewish vital records indexing, that are housed in the Piotrkow branch of the Polish State Archives, are being reviewed. Contact Marla Daschko waltman@fox.nstn.ca
Cemetery - there is an 18th century cemetery with over 3000 tombstones
and there is also a synagogue.
The Jewish community can be traced back to the 13th century according to the Encyclopedia Judaica.
The Gorod (city) of
Plotzk was located in the Uyezd (county) ofPlotzkin the
Guberniya (State) of Plotzkand was about 40 miles from Rypin
"I have posted the entire English part of the Plock Yizkor Book, "
PLOTZK (PLOCK) A History of an Ancient Jewish Community in Poland", editor Eliahu Eisenberg, Plotzker Association in Israel, Tel Aviv 1967."
"Plock with
Kalisz and Poznanare considered to be the most ancient communities in
Poland. There is evidence of Jewish existence in Plockalready in 1237... A cruel deportation already in February 1941 destroyed this grand community, 10,000 souls were murdered by the Germans, most of them in Treblinka."
"The English part is not a complete translation of the Yizkor book of Plock but rather a synopsis, summary, and should be treated as such. There are 684 pages in Hebrew and Yiddish but only 96 pages in English. I have translated and added the titles and page numbers of articles which do not appear in the English summary. I added the code "H" if article is in Hebrew, or "Y" if in Yiddish." I have added also the sub-chapters to the various articles, which are not included in the original Table Of Contents. On many occasions I have added from the Hebrew and Yiddish parts of the book also names of people mentioned in the articles, when that was possible, mainly in the Holocaust chapters."
"I have also added the names of people who appear in the photographs to the captions in English which did not include these names. My hope is to scan and add the 270 photographs to the memorial web site."
Lexicon Of Biographies of Personalities, Public Persons, Rabbis, Writers, Artists, Educators, Teachers, Leaders, Public Activists, Party and Other Organizations Activists, Sport Leaders etc. http://www.zchor.org/plockbio.htm
and to Yad Vashem archives as well. It is my hope that this book will serve as commemoration to the Jewish ancient grand and holy community of
Plock, exterminated by the Germans during the Holocaust. From a posting by Ada Holtzman on JewishGen www.zchor.org
Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israelis Yochewet Brown
Plawno/Gidle
Located near Radomsko and Czestochowa. Daniel Kazez took digital photographs of
some of the tombstones in the Jewish cemetery. http://www.kazez.com/~dan/crarg/
Virtually all vital records have survived. Registers for the years 1895 to 1940 are available at the Civil Records Office (Urzad Stanu Cywilnego) of the town and extracts (not copies) may be obtained by writing to that office. http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/polandv.html
Researchers interested in
Plonsk, and other towns in the vicinity ofSochocin, should try searching for family names in the
Sochocin indices at http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
Plonna
(Polonna)
Located about 20 km. SW of Sanok. Vital records may be available in either or both the
Polish National Archives in Przemysl and/or in the Registry Office for
Plonna in Bukowsko. The Registry Office, called Urzad Stanu Cywilnego, would have the more recent records. A map of the area at http://lemko.org/maps100/Pages/Pg76.html
Podgorze
A district of Crakow(Krakow) and located on the other side of the Vistula river, opposite to the Jewish district of
Kazimierz. Before 1918, it was a separate city known also as Josefstadtby the Austrians. During WWW II, the ghetto was located in Podgorze, the concentration camp in
Plaszow - only a mile away
Podhajce (Podgavtsy)
The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of
Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow. Nearby towns and villages may also
have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns.
Contact for the Jewish
Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Dov Brayer
Pohrabyszcze
This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz Yakum Israel built by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum
There are marriage partners from all over theKielce-Radom area including: Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy Korczyn, Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost, and dozens of local villages
Located SE ofL'vivand W of Tarnopol. It is 11 miles South of
Zolochevin theL'viv oblast. In 1931, there were 4,304 people located on the Zolotaya Lipa River
Poniatowa
The hideous Forced Labor Camp, where part of the remnants of the Warsaw Ghettowas deported to. The incredible and forgotten fact about this camp is that also there, under impossible conditions, the prisoners organized an underground and resisted the Nazis in the final liquidation of the camp. 60 years later and in the outskirts of the peaceful town In
Poniatowa stands 6 memorials to commemorate what happened there in W.W.II. No mention of a the Jews on neither of the monuments. poniatowa.htm
On November 4, 1943, the Germans began destroying Poniatowa Forced Labor Camp: some 15000 Jews were shot to death in a one-day massacre as part of operation "ERNTEFEST". Prisoners who resisted were burnt alive inside their barracks. Only a few survivors escaped the camp before it was totally liquidated.
Poniatowa was the Forced Labor Camp with the last prisoners of Ghetto Warsaw and Ghetto Opole. Commemorate Poniatowa: http://www.zchor.org/poniatowa/poniatowa.htm
Poznan was known as Posen and part of the
German province of Silesia though this is not quite true. Katowitz, Oppein and Breslau belonged to Silesia, Poznan -- not. It was (and still is) one of the greatest city of
Wielkopolska region. Poznan was a part of Poland again in November 1918.
During the 19th century, the
Prussian province of Posen was called Wielkopolska until 1793. It meant "Greater Poland". This area was the historical center of origin of the Polish Nation in the 10th century and has always been one of the richest and most developed provinces of
Poland. From the Second Partition (1793) until the end of WWI (1919), this part of the world was
a Prussian province, except for the decade in the early 1800s when Napoleon was in control. More information is available at http://www.polishroots.com/genpoland/pos.htm
In 1836, a list was published of
"The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen
1834-35". Edward David Luft authored a book in 1987 that included the list, more than 5,000 persons, with additional commentary and maps. More information is available at http://www.avotaynu.com/books/posen.htm
The Jewish population of
Posen was almost depleted by emigration even before the area became part of Poland after WW I. This explains the lack of a Yizkor book.
Steven Fischbach has compiled an InfoFiles for Jewish genealogists with ancestors in
Posen; it is in the JewishGen InfoFiles and contains background references.
Heppner & Herzberg wrote a 2-volume book on the
"History of Jews in Posen", but it is long out of print and printed in German. Volume 2 has a history for each of the 131 communities of
Posen that had Jewish community. Volume 1 is easy to obtain by Interlibrary loan, but Volume 2 may be found at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in the US.
"Jews in the Province of Posen" - authored by Michael Zarchin is also out of print, but may be available in used book shops or on the Internet. Try my link to www.Amazon.com
Map
Map -
The white building with the gray roof is
Jewish Cemetery is located
next to the Remu'h Synagogue was destroyed by the Germans
and later restored.
Photo by Henryk Ross of Lodz Ghetto
