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/
Association of Polish Jews in Israel (Center of Organizations) Names, Addresses and phone numbers of Jews from various shtetls in Poland who may have information of value in your research. 158 Dizengoff St. 63461 Tel Aviv, Israel Tel: 00-972-3-5225078 Fax: 00-972-3-5236684
There is a German and Polish gazetteerthat will assist you in looking up the present names and location of old German and Polish towns
www.kartenmeister.com
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 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
Open Street Maps
The crowd-sourced mapping projectOpenStreetMaphas
amassed a million contributors since its inception in 2005 and,
according to navigation app maker Skobbler, boasts greater
accuracy in
England, Russia
and
Germany
than rivals such as Google Maps. I tried the site and
found an accurate drawing of my father's ancestral town
Tal'ne, Ukraine.
Almost every country is available as is most towns
http://openstreetmap.org
A town in Lódzkie 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/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annopol_(disambiguation)
There appears to be more than one
Annopol in Poland. Click on the link that you are most interested in and it will take you directly to the site.
A town in
Bialystok
province,
Poland
Jewish presence: from 1630 Jewish Population in 1939: 4,000
Holocaust
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
Landsmanshaftn
There is an active Landsmanshaftn in the US. Contact is the secretary, Phyllis Bell at:
hilphyl@yahoo.com
or Roni LiebowitzRoni19@optonline.net
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
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 town site information, the history of medieval town, photographs and an electronic street maps of the town, and more
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm
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"
Authored 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 (Bialystok is Polish, Bielostock is in Russian)
In 1906-1907) it belonged to the Russian Empire. Today Bialystok belongs to Poland. The town, until the Holocaust, had a large Jewish population, depending on the source of the information - something like 40% of the total population. 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
"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.
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.
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
http://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" 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.
http://jewpol.home.ml.org Bielsk-Podlaski The Bielsk ShtetLinks page is located at
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bielsk_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
Department of Documentation History Skr. poczt. 180 ul. 3 Maja Str. No. 7 43-300 Bielsko-Biala Poland Tel. +48 33 8122438 Fax: +48 33 8126654 E-mail:
gwz@bb.onet.pl
Bieszczady Region
Today it is a popular tourist destination. Photographs of the area are available. To see the click on the various links, then on the resultant pages click on the link at the bottom.
http://fizyka.phys.put.poznan.pl/~spoon/karp.htm
The JewishGen Yizkor Book
Necrology Database indexes the names of
persons in the necrologies -- the lists of Holocaust martyrs --
published in the Yizkor Books appearing on the Yizkor Book Project site
at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html
This database is only an index of names; it directs researchers back to
the Yizkor Book itself, where more complete information may be
available.
This database currently contains over 186,000 entries from the
necrologies of 210 different Yizkor Books.
Bilgoraj
Province of Zamosc, Lublin Guberniyaand is in the south of the Lubelskie province.
The Jewish Records Indexing Poland indexed 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
Research 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.
Research 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
Located about 120 miles east ofWarsaw-near the Bug river and just north of the Ukrainian border.
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.
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Belarus/brest.htm
Books
"Encyclopedia of the Jewish
Diaspora" Volume 2 has been updated
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
Russian Era Indexing of Poland Project 1826-1865 in the LDS microfilms of the Jewish vital records of Brok
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.
Books
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. Video
http://www.emuzyka.pl/piosenki/Coma,Daleka-droga-do-domu,126913.html
Located 21 km west ofRadomsko. Records for the years 1816 to 1864. A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya- JRI-Poland Database website
www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
Research 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
There are some Jews living in this town today according to I
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 by Rodney Eisfelder
eisfelderr@ACSLINK.AONE.NET.AU Research Jewish Records Indexing has updated indexes from the LDS Microfilms.
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-op
Lancea@israsrv.net.il
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.
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/
Landsmanshaft 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 Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Avraham Beker
http://jwa.org/archive/jsp/orgInfo.jsp?orgID=74
Holocaust 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. Cemetery
http://www.iajgs.org/cemetery/poland/chodziez.html
Research
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
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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
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
"Czenstochov: Our Legacy" Authored by Harry Klein and published in Montreal in 1993. Available on Google Books.
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.
http://www.davidrose.us/DavidWebPage/Geneology/CzestRG.html
Census of 1792
(The above link includes Czenstochov/Chenstochov) and nearby shtetls: Janow/Janów Klobuck Klomnice Krzepice Lelow/Lelów Mstow/Mstów Praszka Przyrow/Przyrów Szczekociny Zarki
An indexing of *all* Jewish vital records in the Mormon microfilm collection from the years 1826 to 1835 posted to the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/
CRARG - Czestochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group The CRARG's database of records is well over 600.000. These
records include 1790s census pages from towns in CRARG's core area of
Poland; tombstone, synagogue, birth, marriage and death records for
the 1800s; emigration, immigration, craftsman and Holocaust records for
the 1900s. This group has taken photographs of every tombstone in the
Jewish cemeteries of many of the core towns, has translated all of the
information on every tombstone and has made that information searchable
by both given name and surname.
http://www.crarg.org/search-holocaust-records.php
Research Jewish Records Indexing has updated indexes from the LDS Microfilms.
Danzig
(Gdansk)
The Capital of East Prussia. After WWII Danzig was returned to Poland and re-named GDANSK. 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
A
suburb of
Krakow, Dębnikiis
Kraków's Administrative District No. VIII, split in 1990
fromPodgórze.[12]It
contains the former villages of Bodzów, Dębniki, Kapelanka,
Kobierzyn, Koło Tynieckie, Kostrze, Ludwinów, Podgórki
Tynieckie, Pychowice, Sidzina, Skotniki,Tyniecand
Zakrzówek, the neighborhoods of Kliny Zacisze and Mochnaniec, as
well as a number of newly built estates.Dębniki
is a primarily residential area, with diverse architecture,
ranging from 19th-century tenements in the area of Rynek Dębniki
(Dębniki Market) toplattenbaublocks
of flats in the Podwawelskie and Ruczaj estates and suburban
areas of detached houses in the outskirts. In Tyniec is a
famousBenedictineabbey,
founded in the 11th century.The district contains many open
spaces, Zakrzówek Nature Park being the most popular of them. A
new complex of university buildings, called the Third Campus of
theJagiellonian
University, is being developed within the district.
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. Prussia, or Preussen, was a very large German Kingdom which included parts of both western and eastern Europe in its heyday.
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
Research 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 Dobrzycain 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
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 NoneDrogobych #2 Birth Records None Marriage Records None Death Records 1852-1896, 1898-1899
Research 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.
Yizkor Book "Memories of My Shtetl" "Kehilat Tarnobrzeg-Dzikow" The Community of Tarnobrzeg-Dzikow which is located in Western Galicia.
Bet David (House of David) Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Poland, Vol. III
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Dzik%C3%B3w
Located about 23 miles due west of Punskon the German/Polish border
Frampol
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.
Indices to Jewish vital records of the town of Frampolfrom 1871-1900
have been indexed by the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland team inWarsaw. Frampolhad 1,465 Jewish residents in 1921, out of a total population of about 2,720. Ari Morris is the Town leader
Research 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: Births: 1871-1900. Marriages: 1871-1897, 1899-1900. Deaths: 1871-1900
Fraustadt
(Polish Wschowa)
A town in the Lubusz
Voivodeship in Poland with 14,607 inhabitants in
2004. It is the capital of Wschowa County.
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.
http://www.pharao.com/cam/Europe/Poland/?Blaszki/transportation.html
Ger
Ira
Block posted on 1/30/07 "I recently emailed requested photos from the
following shuls/cemeteries. If anyone wants copies of anything below
just send a request via email to
irablock@gmail.com
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
Research Jewish Records Indexing has updated indexes from the LDS Microfilms.
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.
Landmanschaften Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Yosef Rivo
http://jwa.org/archive/jsp/orgInfo.jsp?orgID=74
Research
Jewish vital records for 1898 - 1940 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. Nearby towns are: Gostynin, Osmolin, Gombin, Zychlin, Sanniki, Jaksice and Poddebice.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/gombin/gombin.html
History
Gombin Jewish Historical and Genealogical Society Web site indicates a mass grave of Jews from the nearby Czerkow Concentration Campand names of those buried in the Catholic cemetery. http://www.zchor.org/SHOMER10.HTM
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.zchor.org/indexgom.htm
"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. " From a posting by Betty Provizer Starkman
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
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. From a posting by Alexander Sharon
History
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
The site has a list of the types of records available, surname indexes for some of the records, estimated costs, etc.
Landsmanshaftn There is a Horodenker Association of Israel currently in existence. The contact is Zvi Weicman, 29 Keren Hayesod St. Ra'anana, Israel 43305
http://jwa.org/archive/jsp/orgInfo.jsp?orgID=74
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.
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/gorodenka/gorodenka.html
Czestochowa and Lodz have
Yizkor books. Gorzkowice does not. You can get details on
these books by searching the Yizkor database, which is
accessible from the Yizkor Book SIG's web page
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/
Jews settled in
Goworowo in the 18th century. Located 13 miles south of Ostrołęka
and 29 miles south west of Lomza. The 1900 Jewish
population was 1,844. It is a village in Ostrołęka County of
Masovian Voivodeship in east-central Poland and is the seat
of the administrative district called Gmina Goworowo. Itis approximately 19 km (12 mi) south of Ostrołęka and
85 km (53 mi) north east of Warsaw. The population is now
about 820. Goworowo was an entirely Jewish shtetl on the Orz
river with close to 500 families. 1921 Jewish population: 1085. The town
is on the Warsaw-Łomża Railroad between the Ostrow-Mazowiecki
and Ostrołęka, for many years Goworowo was part of
Bialystok Guberniya.
Cemetery
The cemetery is located about 60 m from Grodzisko-Pasiek road
junction. It was established in 19th century and the last burial took
place in 1940. The 1.7 ha cemetery, destroyed during World War II,
has 20 Matzevot visible in the cemetery. About 200 held by Goworowo Town
Council. [May 2009]http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/poland/goworowo.html
Located near Plock. Also a second Gradyis near Ostrow Mazowiecki, while another is near Suwalkiand another near Lublin.Gradyis pronounced "Grundy" or "Grondy"
Grajewo
Yizkor Book 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.
"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
Research
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
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
Gwozdziec, a
village between Spie and Kamien in southeastern Poland
(137 miles SSE of Warsaw). The town of
Gwozdziec is now in the present Ukraine.
Site includes a map.
http://www.jdlasica.com/PI01/gwozdziec.html
Research
All the records available at AGAD are on-line. This only includes births for the following years: Births 1858, 1863, 1870
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
Holendry
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.
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.
The JewishGen Yizkor Book
Necrology Database indexes the names of persons in the necrologies --
the lists of Holocaust martyrs -- published in the Yizkor Books
appearing on the Yizkor Book Project site at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html
This database is only an index of names; it directs researchers back to
the Yizkor Book itself, where more complete information may be
available.
This database currently contains over 186,000 entries from the
necrologies of 210 different Yizkor Books.
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
Research
TheInowroclaw Branch of the Polish State Archive 88-100 Inowroclaw, ul. Narutowicza 58, Kierownik dr Lidia Wakuluk Phone (0-536) 57 64 44
Ivangorod (Deblin, Demblin, Irena)
This town has been incorporated into a 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.Ivangorod and its sister fortresses Slavy and Balonywere the Russian Poland era (1795-1918) military fortification.
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/deblin/Deblin.html#TOC
Ivano-Frankovo
Formerly in Polandand now in Ukraine
Research
Birth Records 1877-1897 Marriage Records None Death Records None
Cemetery
There were two
Jewish cemeteries
in
Stanislawow.
One of them, the newer cemetery dating from the 1920s or '30s,
still has hundreds of surviving tombstones, thanks to the
efforts of Rabbi Kolesnik in
Ivano Frankovsk,
and also the organization listed below. The other, ancient,
Jewish cemetery
has been completely destroyed and is currently the site of a
film cinema. There are no surviving tombstones in the latter
http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/stanislawow/cemetary-1.htm
Research
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.
Research
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
Synagogue
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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
Yizkor Book
A Yizkor Book
translation has been updated
Janow Sokolski
Near Radomsko and Czestochowa.
Cemetery
Digital photographs of all of the tombstones in the Jewish cemetery.
Ada Green
ada.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.
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
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.
Cemetery 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.
There are no Mormon microfilms of Jewish vital records for this town
Jaryczow Nowy - (Novyy Yarchev)
Research All the records available at AGAD are on-line
Births 1888-1890, 1892, 1893, 1896, 1897 Marriages 1879, 1892, 1897 Deaths 1879-1881, 1883, 1889-1892, 1899
Holocaust 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.
Books
Grim details laid out in
"Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne,
Poland",
Aa 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.
Holocaust 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."
Yizkor Book "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.
Research
A web page for this town may be available. For further information on the web page contact Helen Banks
neshaver@gn.apc.org
Jozefow Ordynacki
Research Jewish Records Indexing has updated indexes from the LDS Microfilms.
Jurborg
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
Kalisz
(Kalusz) (Starostwo)
Located about 150 miles fromWarsaw.
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.
Research
Birth, Marriage and Death indexes Now searchable on the JRI database
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
"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
Holocaust 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
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.
Museum There is an 18th century museum containing precious Judaica made of gold and silver.
Research 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.
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/psa/psastat.htm
An offer to lookup individual marriages for this shtetl was made by David Priceon a "if free time available" basis.
dprice@sympatico.ca
Research 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
There are about 1318 indices for the town in theJRI-Poland database. These include Marriages1869-84 and Deaths 1870-84from the LDS / Mormon microfilms. For subscription and membership information, contact Mark Froimowitz
90 Eastbourne Road
Newton, MA 02459.
The Jewish population, or Kehila, in this, the Czartoryski Territories in 1776, obtained from Appendix I of the book
"TheLords' Jews, Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth during the 18th Century"
Authored by M. J. Rosman amounted to 973.
Research 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
Located 17 miles northwest of Bialystok on the National road #669Bialystok-Grajewo.Pre WW II the town had a population of 1,235 Jews according to WOWW book reference
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)
Books
"From A Ruined Garden - The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry"
"A Jewish Boyhood in Poland" Authored by Norman Salitz talks about Kolbuszowa
Emigration Harvey Kaplan,a member of Gesher Galicia SIG
galicia@lyris.jewishgen.orgoffers to share his Excel file with anyone interested of over 300 names of Jews who left Kolbuszowa for Ellis Island 1899-1923.
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
Research
Birth and death records have been indexed, but not all the indices have been added to the database.
Births 1878 -1879, 1883-1884, 1888-1890 Deaths 1876, 1878-1994, 1889-1891
Komionka Mala - Kamionka Wielka
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.
Konary
There are several villages of this name in Poland. One of them is located approximately 5 miles SW of Plawno.
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.
Books
"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, Page 429, quotes paragraphs from this diary. ISBN 0 09 940981 x,
Cemetery Inside the Catholic Cemetery, near the entrance, stands a mass grave ofJews who were the victims of the Czerkow (Konin) Forced Labor Nazi Camp
Research 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/
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
Research Jewish Records Indexing has updated indexes from the LDS Microfilms.
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
Research Birth, Marriage and Death records for 1832-55,
1858-65, 1868-76, 1880 - 1889, 1891 - 1897 are on the
JRI-Poland database.There arealsorecords for 1832-55; 1858-65;
1868-76; 1880-80 and 1891-97
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
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
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
Koronowo (Krone an der Brahe)
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.
Holocaust 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 Book of Kozienice: "The Birth and the Destruction of a Jewish
Community"
Holocaust 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.
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.
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)
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 souvenir stalls and the Noworolski Cafe.
Cemetery Jewish Cemetery is located next to the Remu'h Synagogue was destroyed by the Germans and later restored.
Ira
Block posted on 1/30/07 "I recently emailed requested photos from the
following shuls/cemeteries. If anyone wants copies of anything below
just send a request via email to
irablock@gmail.com
There is a site that offers 65,000 index entries in their database. The Krakow Burial registeris online for the New Cemetery, 55 ul. Miodowa, for the years 1922-39 and 1945-1961
www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/
March 14, 2010 marked the 67th anniversary of the final liquidation of this ghetto. Photographs and information submitted to the Wiesenthal Center's
http://www.wiesenthal.com/children/
Research 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.
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
Rabbi of Krakow In 2005 is Avraham Flaks, the first since WW II.
Research Group TheKrakow Research Group has a web page. Find half of the1795 Census, Births from 1798 to 1809andMarriages from 1798 to 1808, along with a search engine, laterbirth/marriage/death records, early family treesand other Jewish Krakow document links.
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~dan/genealogy/Krakow/index.html
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
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
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
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.
Community According to Ruben Frankenstein
frankens@uni-freiburg.dethere are no Jewish remnants of the old Jewish community whatsoever.
Research
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
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
Yizkor Book 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.
A small town just northwest of Czestochowa, Poland.
Holocaust
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." From a posting by Daniel Kazez.
"Do Not Go Gentle - A Memoir of Jewish Resistance in Poland,
1941-1945" Authored by Charles Gelman - (See important information in the book) ISBN 0-208-02230-9
Research 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
Research 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
Research 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. 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.
Cemetery There is a Jewish cemetery which contains the grave of Rabbi Horowitz.
Ira Block posted on 1/30/07 "I recently emailed
requested photos from the following shuls/cemeteries. If anyone wants
copies of anything below just send a request via email to irablock@gmail.com
Synagogue A baroque synagogue which has a large collection of Judaica exists. During WW II in 1939, the synagogue was set on fire by the Germans, but thanks to the influence and pleas of Alfred Potocki, the fire was extinguished.
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) For information contact Joe Ross
joeross1220@comcast.net
Research 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
Lejansk
Cemetery
Ira
Block posted on 1/30/07 "I recently emailed requested photos from the
following shuls/cemeteries. If anyone wants copies of anything below
just send a request via email to
irablock@gmail.com
"A D-M Search for Lynczyz gives 6 hits. It includes one Leczyca in Leczyca district, Lodz province - view Page 0867 . This Leczyca which did not show at first in the DM search in ShtetlSeeker seems to be closer. A search can now be made in ShtetlSeeker for towns with the exact name Leczyca, country Poland, using the "Show the distance and direction from:" option, and referring to Lodz. It now gives 5 matches, including two which are less than 25 miles from Lodz:
Leczyca 52 04' 19 13' E M U Poland 24.3 miles NNW of Lodz
Leczyca 51 28' 19 20' E M U Poland 20.4 miles SSW of Lodz
The first one has a little logo with the link to a "JewishGen locality page", which tells us the place was also known as Leczyca, Lechicha, Lecycza, Lenchicha, Lenchitsha, Lentshits, Linchits, Lintchitz, Lunchich, Luntzitz . Now, when I compare Rivka's "Lynczyz" or "Linchess" to "Linchits, Lintchitz", I like it!
I imagine the "other" Leczyca, close by, 20.4 miles SSW of Lodz at 51 45' 19 28', may have also been known by quite similar names. Rivka will have to work to see if one of these places is her husband´s family origin, and which one...
The first one, according to the Locality Page, was in the Kalisz province of the Russian Empire before WW I, and in the Lodz Polish province in between wars. A search for LESLAU in JRI-Poland includes results for Kalisz Gubernya and, sadly among other sources, also for the Lodz ghetto victims list.
Yizkor Book There are 86 JGFF researchers for the first place, the one with a "JewishGen locality page", and according to the Yizkor Book Database, there is also a Memorial book of Leczyca:
Original Title: Sefer Linshits English Title: Memorial book of Leczyca Editor: J. Frenkel, Published: Tel Aviv 1953, Publisher: Former Residents of Leczyca in Israel Pages: 223, Languages: H" From a posting by Carlos Glikson
http://www.angelfire.com/or/yizkor/seayzkor.html
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.
Lezajsk Town Project 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
Records of Lezajsk marriages 1898-1901 Have been indexed by the JRI-Poland team. Indexed birth records 1902-1906 . 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)
Yizkor Book "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
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/
Located in the Polish
Province of Dolnoslaskie in Lower Silesia.
Jewish Cemetery,
Skwierzyna
The Jewish cemetery is situated
on what is known as Jewish Hill (Judenberg). It covers an area of
more than 2 hectares and contains several hundred graves and over
200 gravestones. The oldest visible tomb dates from 1747. Most of
the stones are made from sandstone and include many carved symbols
and inscriptions in both Hebrew and German.
http://polandpoland.com/schwerin_jewishcemetery.html
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. Lipowicaand 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. LipowicaRecords
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.
and as the General Administrative District Centre at:
http://www.pgsa.org/Inter/galizien.htm 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 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.
Yizkor Book "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 Lipowica and 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 recognize Lipowica 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.
Bolechow and Rozniatow 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
Research
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
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pollodz/
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.
Cemetery 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.museumoffamilyhistory.com/pfh-ss-s-z.htm
Ghetto On September 16, 1942, the "resettlement"
of the ghetto is completed. Approximately 55,000 Jews and 5,000
Gypsies were deported to the killing center of Chelmno.
http://cyberroad.com/poland/jews_ww2.html
TheLodz 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 Ghetto Database A record of the 240,000 inhabitants of theLodz Ghetto. There are approximately 242,000 separate entries on the database, which tracks the movement of individuals into, within, and out of the ghetto.
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Poland/LodzGhetto.html
"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.
"TheStory of Chaim Rumkowski and the Jews of Lodz" In this Swedish-produced film from 1984, Director Peter Cohen used archival footage and previously unseen photographs taken by people in the Lodz ghetto and by Jewish Council photographers to document the activities of the Jewish Council, the conditions of daily life for ghetto inhabitants, Rumkowski's relationship to the Nazis, the gradual disintegration of the ghetto, and the deportations to the death camps. Available from Cinema Guild for purchase or rental (I have no commercial interest in this film) (note, the price given is for library purchase. Contact them at their email for home video prices:
info@cinemaguild.com
http://tinyurl.com/y8j8b5
Holocaust 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.
Indices to 10,876 city of Lodz Birth, marriage and death records from 1899 and 1900 On-line in the JRI-Poland database.
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
Indices to the city ofLodz For the year 1901 Indexed. Additional years awaiting posting are: 1902 (6,952 records); 1903 (6,405 records); 1904 (7,290 records) and 1905 (6,088 records)
Indices to 50,000 Jewish birth, marriage and death recordsare being added to the JRI-Poland database. These records are from the years 1878through 1898. There are more than 35 towns in this region.
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-Pl
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
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 Blatt
Lodz Province
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pollodz/
List of all towns For which there areJewish vital record registers located in theLodz Archives
Aleksandrow Lodzki
Bedkow
Belchatow
Biala Rawska
Bielawy
Boleslawiec
Bolimow
Brzeziny
Burzenin
Dzialoszyn
Glowno
Grocholice
Jezow
Kamiensk
Koniecpol
Konstantynow Lodzki
Lask
Lodz
Lowicz
Lutomiersk
Lututow
Nowa Brzeznica
Nowe Miasto n. Pilica
Ozorkow
Pabianice
Pajeczno
Piotrkow Trybunalski
Plawno
Poddebice
Praszka
Radomsko
Rawa Mazowiecka
Rozprza
Sieradz
Skiernewice
Sobota
Strykow
Sulejow
Sulmierzyce
Szadek
Szczercow
Tomaszow Mazowiecki
Tuszyn
Ujazd
Warta
Widawa
Wielun
Wieruszow
Wolborz
Zdunska Wola
Zgierz
Zgierz
Zloczew
Piatnica
(Poinitze)
Across the river, on the east bank of the Narew River, from Lodz and
it is one mile east of Lomza.
Research
1826-1877 These records were microfilmed by the LDS (Mormons) and were
indexed by volunteers under the Lodz "Shtetl CO-OP."
1878-1898
The first Lodz PSA project was for the years 1878 to 1898
and that data has been online for many years.
1899-1905
The "Seven-Year Initiative" to index 43,501 Lodz birth, marriage
and death records was launched in 2001 and all the 1899 to 1905 records
were computerized by the JRI-Poland team in Warsaw. This data was
entered in the original Cyrillic and automatically converted to
Polish spelling (Latin characters).
The indices from 1899 to 1901
have been added to the JRI-Poland
database and can be searched on-line.
Although completed, the indices from 1902 to 1905
cannot be added
to the on-line database yet.
For those of you not familiar with the background, in 1997 JRI-Poland
entered into an agreement with the Polish State Archives to index
Jewish vital records *not* microfilmed by the Mormons
(LDS). Each year the Lodz USC ("Urzad Stanu Cywilnego" - civil
registration office) transfers the eligible (100-year-old)
registers to the Lodz Branch of the Polish State Archives. The
records then became available to JRI-Poland for indexing.
The 1902-1905
data will enable you to further expand your
research of the time period when not only our grandparents and their
siblings were born and married, but also when many of our parents, aunts
and uncles were born in Lodz. We hope the 26,735 birth, marriage
and death records in these four years will result in breakthroughs in
your family research!
More about the 1899 - 1905
"Lodz Seven-Year Initiative:"
Because of the vast quantity of surviving Jewish vital records for Lodz
and the large number of records that become available for indexing each
year, the Seven-Year Initiative was created. The advantage of this
approach to you, the researcher, was that you were asked to participate
in only one project covering these seven years, rather than a new one
each year.
The Lodz Jewish vital records for these years are:
Year Entries
1899: 4,951
1900: 5,944
1901: 5,890
1902: 6,952
1903: 6,405
1904: 7,290
1905: 6,088
For more information about how to participate in this project and
receive the entire file now,
please contact me.
Roni Seibel Liebowitz, Lodz Archive Coordinator, Lodz ShtetLinks
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Lodz/index.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 by contacting George Puchall at gpuchall@aol.com
http://www.lomza.org
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
Cemetery Lomza Jewish Cemetery Foundation www.lomza.org
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
Yizkor Book "Loshits: le-zeykher an umgebrakhter Kehila" (Losice: In Memory of a Jewish Community Poland)
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. See photos and learn about this town at
http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/lubaczow/index.htm
"A Beginner's Tutorial"
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
http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/lubaczow/bgntut.htm
Newspapers 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.
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.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Lublin.html
"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.
There is a Jewish cemetery with graves of famous rabbis dating from the beginning of the 16th century. 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.
An offer to lookup individual marriages for this shtetl was made by David Price
dprice@sympatico.caon a "if free time available" basis
Lublin Ghetto 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.
http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/lublin%20ghetto.html
Research 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, already indexed are 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
List of Residents 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/
Surviving Jews in Lublin - 1945; 2393 persons Synagogue There is also a small synagogue where there is a display of ritual and historical documents of the former Jewish community.
Yeshiva Inside the former yeshiva, there remains an old lecture room as well as a commemorative room showing the history of the building.
Ira Block posted on 1/30/07 "I recently emailed
requested photos from the Yeshiva. If anyone wants copies just send a
request via email to
irablock@gmail.com
A town in the Brzozow district, Dynow sub district. This area is now in Poland.
Research 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
Synagogue
http://www.luboml.org/
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\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.
"This
is the first monograph ever to have been published on Lwow. It
was published in December 1945 as the fourth publication of the Central
Jewish Historical Commission (CJHC) of the Central Committee of
Jews in Poland (Centralny Komitet Zydow w Polsce, CCJP).
The CCJP was created in Lublin in October 1944, at the initiative of the
KPWN (AKA Lublin government, the Moscow governed communist
Polish government). In November 1944 the CCJP
brought Friedman from Lwow to preside over the CJHC, also still in
Lublin. On January1,
1945, the KPWN declared itself to be the Provisional Government of the
Republic of Poland (Rzad Tymczasowy Republiki Polskiej, RTR)
and on 18 January, the RTRP, to further assess
it legitimacy, moved to Warsaw. At the end of February 1945, the
CCJC moved to Warsaw and the CJHC to Lodz.
Branches of the CJHC were opened that year in other towns that were
gradually liberated from the Nazi occupation, and the CJHC began
publication, too. In 1945, it mainly published booklets of
instructions on how to gather materials and compile evidence for their
historical project and only two historical publications. The first was
an annotated anthology of survivors' testimonies published by the
Krakow branch in February-March 1945. The other one, the 4th
official publication and the last for 1945, was Friedman's monograph
Zaglada Zydow lwowskich (the Extermination of the Jews of Lwow).
This was a ground-breaking, revolutionary and out of the official
Soviet/Communist line of the time in many aspects, including its timing
of publication. In December 1945, the same month Friedman published his
monograph on the murder of the Jews of Lwow, the Pravda and the
Izvestia (officialorgans of the Soviet Communist Party)
published the official Report No 6 of the Soviet Extraordinary State
Commission for ascertaining and investigating crimes perpetrated by the
German Fascist invaders and their accomplices, and the damage inflicted
by them on citizens, collective farms, social organizations, State
enterprises and institutions of the U.S.S.R. Now, this Report No
6 was devoted to Lvov, and was part of the files prepared by the
above mentioned Soviet Extraordinary Investigative Commission for the
upcoming Nuremberg Trials as part of the Soviet Prosecution
files. According to the Soviet/Communist line, firstly Lwow was
considered as a Soviet and not a Polish Town from
September 1939 and all its citizens were considered to have been
Soviet citizens.
Subsequently and also
according to the same line, no particular attention was paid to any
particular national persecution by the Nazis. Soviet citizens
were persecuted as Soviet citizens as such. Material damage was
caused to Soviet material as such. Inter alia, numbers of
Polish Jewish refugees from Western and Central Poland who
fell into the Soviet Territories (that is, in fact Eastern Poland but
that the Soviet annexed after having invaded it then considered it to be
fully Soviet from 1939 and on) were largely inflated so as to
support the contemporary Soviet propaganda of the Soviets having saved
some 300,000 Polish refugees by evacuating them to the Soviet
hinterlands, etc.
Now, Friedman was collecting documents and testimonies throughout the
Nazi occupation while in hiding in Lwow and continued immediately
upon the liberation of the town, from July to November 1944, when he
moved to Lublin to preside the Polish CJHC. His booklet,
contrary to the Official Soviet Report, refers to Lwow as a
Polish town and the Jews - both local and refugees, as Polish
Jews and not Soviet ones. He all but openly accuses the special
units of the NKVD and SMERSH of making disappear Jewish documents by
stating that the almost "complete absence of authentic official
documents" and that the archives of the Judenrat of Lwow, for
example, "could not be found, not even in August."
(Documents of the Statistical Department of the Judenrat of Lwow, for
example, were indeed, just as he hinted at in 1945, found in the State
Archives of Ukraine after the fall of the USSR in the 1990s.)They were acquired by Yad Vashem.). He thus based his research, he
explains, on the documentation he gathered himself in Lwow during
the whole period; on Soviet "reports and material assembled
by the Soviet Extraordinary Investigative Commission" and on a
number of protocols, testimonies by the witnesses and diaries held by
the CJHC in Poland.
He reminds that among the Jewish refugees in Lwow were also
refugees from other counties of the Province of Lwow itself that
under the Ribbentrop-Molotov Agreement remained under Nazi Occupation in
1939 and did not necessarily arrive from Western or Central Poland.
According to his sources, he numbers the Jewish refugees in Lwow
at about 50-60,000. NKVD documents, containing lists of deported
Polish citizens from Galicia and other Polish occupied
provinces and analyzed after the fall of the USSR by several researchers
show that his estimate was astonishingly accurate: the second wave of
deportations, in June 1940, from these Provinces to the Soviet
hinterland was that of refugees it contained mainly if not exclusively
Jewish refugees and they numbered "64,533 persons [...] who stayed
[...] especially inLwow" (see: Piotr Eberhardt, Political
Migrations In Poland 1939-1948, Warsaw, 2006,
available from the web site of the Polish Academy of Science, Institute
of Geography and Spatial Organization, p.19).
http://www.igipz.pan.pl/zpz/Political_migrations.pdf
Speaking of Deportations, Friedman is the first to explicitly write - in
1945! - that these refugees were deported already in 1940 by the
Soviets which had nothing to do with allegedly evacuating them
in 1941. He also clearly opposes the legend of any alleged organized
Evacuation of Jews by the Soviets in 1941 when writing that a few
thousands, mainly communist youth and political figures "tried to
escape to the Soviet Union" but "only a handful reached Russia"
and "several thousand" young Jewish men were conscripted into the
retreating Red Army. This also is confirmed by more recent research
based on NKVD and other Soviet documents opened after the disintegration
of the USSR.
Now, Friedman left Poland and the CJHC around July 1946 following
a very harsh internal debate that echoed the political situation in
Poland where the Local communist party was trying to take over and
their representatives both in the CCJP and the CJHC were trying to turn
the CJHC into an official organ in service of the government. He went to
work in the Central Historical Commission of Liberated Jews in the US
Zone in Germany, where he continued to collect testimonies until
1948, when he left for the US and joined the YIVO. With the new
testimonies gathered in Germany and with more German
documents, he published in the US an enlarged version of his
Destruction of the Jews of Lwow, sometimes in 1948-1949.
Sometimes in the early
1950's, after Yad Vashem was opened in 1953, he went to Israel
and collected more testimonies there, and in Gelber N., Ed.,
Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora, A memorial
library of Countries and Communities, Poland Series, Vol. IV, Lwow, Part
I, Jerusalem, Encyclopaedia of the Diaspora, 1956 there is a third,
even more enlarged version of this booklet, unfortunately,
Hebrew only. One of these 3 versions is included in Friedman Philip (Firedman
Ada June, Ed.,), Road to Extinction, Conference on Jewish Social
Studies, The University of Michigan, 1980 (but I do not know which of
the versions it is not whether it was re-edited or not). From a
posting by Rivka Schirman nee Moscisker
Synagogue 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, house of Sholom Aleichem, monument of the victims of the Jewish Ghetto, Yaniv cemetery and Yaniv concentration camp.
Research
List of Residents 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
Makolin
(Ma,kolin)
Coordinates 5230 2001 is about 2 miles distance away from Bodzanow. "Monkolin"in Polish is written as Ma,kolin. The 'secret' of 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
Located about 9 km from Kopychintsyand in the 1929 Poland Business Directory, this village had 914 people.
Research Jewish names appearing in this town include Sch. Bilgora; Benjamin Buk, L. Buchsbaum
Mazowiecka
Research
This site is includes theBirth, Marriage and Death recordsofNowy Dwor Maz., Radzymin, Serock, Sochocin and Zakroczym. These records are kept in the Nowy Dwor Mazowiecka Branchof the Polish State Archives and not all records are available for all towns and all years
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.
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
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
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.
Synagogue 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
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
Located in the Zaglebie area, is a city near Tarnobrzeg.
Holocaust
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)
Novyye Strelishcha ( the current name of this town, now located in Ukraine)
Research
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
Births: 1877-1879, 1890-1894 Deaths: Nil; Marriages: 1877-1893.
Research
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
Debbie Raff offers a Nowy Sacz Group. 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.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sacz/
Yizkor Books 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
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
Research
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
Cemetery There is an old Jewish cemetery
Research
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.
Olkusz
There was a Jewish settlement in Olkusz by the time of Casimir the Great (1333–70), who expropriated the gold and silver mines in Olkusz belonging to his Jewish banker Levko.
Research
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.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_15080.html
Research 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.
Research
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.
Yizkor Book "Apt; A Town Which Does Not Exist Anymore" 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
Landmanschaften Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Aharon Karmi
http://jwa.org/archive/jsp/orgInfo.jsp?orgID=74 Research
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
Yizkor Book
Opole-Lubelski
An offer to do a lookup for individual marriages has been made by
dprice@sympatico.caon a "if free time available" basis.
Research
Database, in German at
www.doew.at
Yizkor Book "Sefer Opole-Lubelski" (Memorial Book of Opole-Lubelski Poland)
www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor
Although the Jewish
community of Orla has a long and rich history and used to
be one of the important Jewish centres in Eastern Poland,
an Orla Yizkor Book (Memorial Book) has never been
written.
Until 1939 about 1500 Jews lived in the town. The vast majority
were killed in the Treblinka concentration camp. Some of
them were drafted in 1940 into the Soviet army or were deported
to Siberia and this saved their lives. After 1945 not one
Jew lived in Orla. Those who survived the Holocaust
emigrated mainly to Israel, the US, Australia and
South Africa. Unfortunately, emigrants from Orla,
scattered around the world, did not form any organization. Their
communities were probably too small (even including pre-war
emigration) and too dispersed. This is the most likely
explanation why an Orla Yizkor Book has never been
written.
Seventy years after the annihilation of the Jewish Orla
community, we decided to try to create an Orla Yizkor
Book. We are of course aware that only very few Orla
Jews are still alive. We were able to contact two of them and
received their memoirs. But we believe that it is still possible
to contact their descendants who might have some testimonies or
know a family history. Again, we are lucky to have already
received some of these documents. We hope to contact more
descendants in the future to hear and read their stories.
We would like the voices of Jews who lived in Orla to be
heard. This is the general aim of the project. Our concept is to
collect all possible memoirs written by Orla's Jews and
family stories told by their descendants. Also, Orla's
testimonies from Yad Vashem and the Jewish Historical
Institute in Warsaw will be
included. All those materials will form the first part of the
Yizkor Book.
The second chapter of the planned publication will be the story
about Jewish Orla told by Christians living in Orla.
During 2010 and 2011 we interviewed twenty people in Orla
who were born before 1930 and remember their Jewish neighbors.
We received very valuable and detailed testimonies about Jewish
life in Orla. The aim is to interview all people from the
oldest generation of Orla residents, about another twenty
people.
The Orla Yizkor Book will also include a chapter about the
history of the Jewish community of the town. This still requires
further research, especially into the period between the
beginning of the 1800s and 1939. To fill this gap we will
conduct research in the Polish and foreign archives.
The Orla Yizkor Book Project is open for contributions.
If you would like to contribute to it please contact the
coordinator and editor, Wojciech Kono @ #324; czuk (wojtekk7@wp.pl).
We would very much appreciate any memoirs or testimonies of
Orla's Jews, historical documents, old photos and images and
family stories. You can help to preserve the legacy of Orla's
Jewish community.
In November the biggest Polish weekly "Polityka"
published an article about how nowadays residents of Orla
remember their Jewish neighbors and how they restore the memory
about Jewish Orla. Our Yizkor Book project is also
mentioned there. From a posting by Eli Rabinowitz
eli@elirab.comLink to the
article (in Polish):
http://tinyurl.com/bpy8wy2
One of the principal Russian Polish Jewish centers, incorporated into Russia between 1807. It appears that the Polish State Archives only has Jewish birth records for the years 1886-1940.
Ostroleka (Ostrolenka)
Located 60 miles NE of Warsaw inMazowieckie(former Volvodeship)
Research
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
This infamous town was, before WW II, a predominantly Jewish town until it became 'the hell that it was as Auschwitz.'
Cemetery 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
Synagogues 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.
Located in southeast Poland, eighty km from Kielce. The town was in Opatow Powiat of Radom Guberniyaof the Kingdom of Poland in the Russian Empire before WWI. It is now a town inKielce-Radom Guberniya
http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
Cemetery About one hundred monuments remain in the 2.5 acre plot of the Jewish cemetery which dates back nearly four hundred years.
Research 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.
Research
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
Research 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
Pakosc
Research Jewish Records Indexing has updated indexes from the LDS Microfilms.
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\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'.
Research 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
Research There are marriage partners from all over theKielce-Radomarea including: Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy Korczyn, Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost, and dozens of local villages
Synagogue There is a still standing synagogue in this village.
Pinsk - Karlin
Dorshei Tov Anshei Pinsk Later changed to Ezras Achim Bnei Pinsk. From a posting by Jerry Seligsohn on JewishGen
jselig3460@aol.com
Cemetery Now only a fenced-off area. See Belarus Law above.
History
Pinsk - a well done history of The Jewish Community of Pinsk in English
http://www.pinskjew.com
Landsmanshaftn Name Lists Scroll down on the right until you come to "Pinsk Organizations", and click on it.
www.jewishgen.org/belarus
Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Nachum Bone
http://jwa.org/archive/jsp/orgInfo.jsp?orgID=74 "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 Synagogue
http://members.tripod.com/~mikerosenzweig/polsynagog.htm
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.
Cemetery - there is an 18th century cemetery with over 3000 tombstones and there is also a synagogue.
Research 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
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. Plock with Kalisz and Poznanare considered to be the most ancient communities in Poland. There is evidence of Jewish existence in Plockalready in 1237.
"Lexicon Of Biographies of Personalities, Public Persons, Rabbis,
Writers, Artists, Educators, Teachers, Leaders, Public Activists, Party
and Other Organizations Activists, Sport Leaders etc." 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
Holocaust A cruel deportation already in February 1941 destroyed this grand community, 10,000 souls were murdered by the Germans, most of them in Treblinka."
http://www.zchor.org/plock/sefer5.htm
"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."
"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." The book is accessed from the main P.R.I. (Plock Remembrance Initiative) web page, at:
http://www.zchor.org/INDPLOCK.HTM
Research 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
Research
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 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.
Holocaust 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 indexed 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.
Cemetery The New York Podhajcer Societyhas cemetery records for this shtetl. It was once in Galicia, and now it is known as Podgaytsy, Ukraine
Synagogue 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
Research 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
Research Jewish Records Indexing has updated indexes from the LDS Microfilms.
Pomoryany (Pomorzany, Pomarin)
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
Holocaust 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 WW II. No mention of a the Jews on neither of the monuments.
http://www.zchor.org/poniatowa/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
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.
www.Amazon.com
A small village that was
incorporate in 1916 into Warsaw. A register was
found according to an article published in the Revue du Cercle
de Genealogie Juive, the publication of the Jewish Genealogical
Society of France, Issue 109, Spring 2012
http://www.freag.net/en/t/4egnw/revue_du_cercle
Jews appeared in Przasnysz
in the 16th century and emerged as an organized community over
the 18th century. The late 1880s saw the Kehilla reach its peak,
with the number of its members at 4,500 (52% of the town’s
population)
http://www.sztetl.org.pl/de/city/przasnysz/
Yizkor Book "Sefer Zikaron Kehillot Proshnits" (Memorial Book to the Community of Proshnitz) The Table of Contents, pictures, documents and necrology are available
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
Research Extracts of all Jewish marriages from 1810 to 1846, transcribed from Polish Records have been translated from 1871 to 1875
www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
Synagogue 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.
http://www.zchor.org/verbin/verbin.htm
Holocaust On the morning of July 26, 1942, at the bridge over the river San in Przemysl, a detachment of SS and police wanted to round up Jews from the ghetto for deportation to the Belzec extermination camp. Two German army officers, the towncommander Major Liedtke and his deputy, First Lieutenant Battel, protected the Jews from being taken to their death by threatening to order their men to open fire unless the SS men retreated.
Only one day before the bridge encounter, Battel had used army trucks to take Jewish workers and their families - 80 to 100 people - out of the ghetto and house them under direct military supervision. Both Battel and Liedtke have been honored in 1982 and 1993 by Yad Vashem, Israel as "Righteous among the Nations"
Jewish vital records in the Przemysl Branch of the Polish State Archives include 6,104 Births, 1,244 Marriages and 17,864 Deaths
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/
There are no Mormon microfilms of Jewish vital records for this town.
The word pshitik refers to the township of Przytyk in the district of Radom, Poland.
Pogrom On 9 March 1936, there was a pogrom in the township but it met Jewish resistance. There were casualties on both sides but the Polish court found the Jews guilty of starting the so-called trouble. The one sided system of Polish justice was highly supported by the Polish government and became its declared policy towards the Jewish minority. The atmosphere created by the trial spread throughout Poland and was referred to as the “przytyk atmosphere.” From a posting by Ron Doctor
http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Przytyk_Pogrom
Located in Lublin Guberniyaand was a center for culture and Jewish social movements at the beginning of the 20th century.
Yizkor Book "Yizkor-Bukh Pulawy"(Memorial Book Pulawy) also known as Novaya Aleksandriya, Pilev, Pilov, and Pulav before. The book is 496 pages and written in Yiddish, with a Necrology and lots of photos, testimonies of survivors and the story of the town for about 50 years before 1939
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
Pultusk is located 37 miles
(60 km) north of Warsaw and is in the Mazovia area.
Cemetery Twenty tombstones are in the Museum Pultusk; one tombstone is in the estate at Soneczna 40 st.; five tombstones are in Archiwum in Pultusk. According to the moderator of the Pultusk group, there are no headstones left at the site of the cemetery.
The word pshitik refers to the township of Przytyk in the district of Radom, Poland. On 9 March 1936, there was a pogrom in the township but it met Jewish resistance. There were casualties on both sides but the Polish court found the Jews guilty of starting the so-called trouble. The one sided system of Polish justice was highly supported by the Polish government and became its declared policy towards the Jewish minority. The atmosphere created by the trial spread throughout Poland and was referred to as the “przytyk atmosphere.”
A wonderful and informative site that includes: Radomsko (Noworadomsk/Novoradomsk/Radomsk) and nearby: Gidle Kruszyna Nowa Brzeznica Plawno Rozprza
Research The Radom Ghetto in Poland was
liquidated on August 16-18; 18,000 Jews were deported to Treblinka;
1,500 who resisted deportation were shot on the spot; 4,000 Jews were
put into a special slave labor ghetto.
Complete extracts of all Jewish births in this city from 1810 - 1825. Encompasses some neighboring villages.
radom.htm
Located betweenLodz and CzestochowainPiotrkow Province and very close to Plawno. This is not the same town as Radom.Alternative old names for this town include:Naya Radomsk; Novo Radomsk; Novo Radomsko; Radomsk. Nowy, Novy or Novyj is the Slavic word for "new" and often the word is written separately from the neighbor word.
http://www.crarg.org
"Rozklad Na Parafian Wyznania Mojzeszowego na utrzymanie Buznicy w Miescie Radomsku na lata 1829/31 ulozony" Means "Distribution of support for maintenance of the synagogue in the City of Radomsko by parishioners of the Jewish Faith for the years 1829/1831" The columns indicate names, professions and amounts. Dan Kazez has a copy of this document
Yizkor Book "Sefer Yizkor le-Kehillot Radomsk ve-ha-Seviva"(Memorial Book of the Community of Radomsk and Vicinity)Gloria Berkenstat Freund is currently translating the Yiddish sections and portions have begun to appear on the JewishGen Yizkor Book site.
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
Research Jewish Records Indexing has updated indexes from the LDS Microfilms.
Radowaz
Located near Tarnobrzeg
Radymno (Radimno, Redem)
It was once a part of Western Galicia, but now Poland in the Jaroslaw Administrative District. It is 11.7 miles north ofPrzemysl and 8.2 miles SE of Jaroslaw.Radymno (Radimno, Redem) - was once a part of Western Galicia, but now Poland
Research Jewish vital records in the Przemysl Branch of the Polish State Archives include73 Births, 0 Marriages and 39 Deaths
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/
There are no Mormon microfilms of Jewish vital records for this town
Radzilow
Located in the former Lomza Guberniyaon the northeastern border of Poland. There is an excellent web site that describes and gives an insight into Shtetl Life. The webmaster is Jose Gutstein
JMG-Miami@msn.com
http://www.radzilow.com/ Holocaust A mass murder of Jews took place on July 7, 1941 by German sponsored members of the local Citizens' Guard. More information is available at
http://radzilow.com/tygodnik.htm
'Rzeczpospolita' A major Polish newspaper. Jose Gutstein
JMG-Miami@email.msn.comhas translated an article written by Andrzej Kaczynski, dealing with the events of the Holocaust inJedwabne and Radzilow, in Lomza Guberniya.
Holocaust Members of the Nazi Secret Police instigated the Polish escorts to execute the Jews by allowing one of them to shoot at the Jews
Rakow
A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya.
Research 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, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost,and dozens of local villages
A town in the Lublin District, 56 km ESE of the City of Lublin at 51 05 /23 17.
Research Records from 1860-1899not filmed by the LDS (Mormons) have been indexed by the JRI-Poland team in Warsawas part of the Lublin Polish State Archives (PSA) Project. Contact is Robinn Magid
RobinnM@aol.com
*Summary of Rejowiec records being indexed* There are more than 3000 records being indexed as part of this project. The types and years of records are as follows: Births: 1458 Grooms: 383 Brides: 383 Deaths: 844 Total: 3068
Repid
Located in southeastern Poland and south of Sanok
Rohatyn (Rogatin, Rohityn)
"Rohatyn was a town in the Stanislawow district of Poland (today Ukraine). At the turn of the century, the Jewish population was about 3,500 (half of the total population). At the start of the war, the Jewish population was about 3,000.
Holocaust The Germans occupied the town on July 2, 1941, and a Judenrat was established by the end of the month. A ghetto was created in the Fall. On March 20, 1942, over 2,000 Jews were shot to death in open pits near the railroad station. Deportations to the Belzec death camp began in September. The ghetto was liquidated in June, 1943.
http://www.edwardvictor.com/Ghettos/2006/Rohatyn.htm
Yizkor Book "Rozniatow was a typical Jewish town in Galicia, with
its joys and sorrows, a dear place, where the entire spectrum of the
rainbow was represented, and life was interesting and multifaceted; a
life of warm Jewish content, of desire to broaden horizons, thirst for
Torah and its wisdom, a hope for a better future. Everything that took
place in the multifaceted Jewish life of Galicia could be seen through
the lens of Rozniatow." From a posting by Thomas Weiss.
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Rozniatow/Rozhnyatov.html
The Gorod (city) of Rypinwas located within the Uyezd (County) of Rypin, within theGuberniya (State of Plotzk). It was about 40 miles from Plotzk and according to Evreiskaya Entsiklopedia, based on 1897 data,Rypinhad a population of 5,961 of which 1,732 were Jews.
Rypin, the Uyezd (county) had a population of 69,930 of which 4,367 were Jews. In 1872-73, the population figures were likely less.
Lies south of Brzeskoand there is a road between those 2 Shtetlach. The total population of Rytro in 1937 was 1,444 people with 45 Jews. There is a website( in Polish).
www.rytro.onet.pl
Research Information may be obtained from Peter Jassem
jassep@tdbank.caThe births databaseof this shtetl is online - Scroll down to the boxes and enter a surname. For Guberniya, selectGalicia; for province; selectRzeszow; for town, enterRzeszow.
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/
A town inKielce-Radom Guberniya. The JRI-Poland project has indices to the Jewish vital records not filmed by the Mormons have been indexed. Photos of the town can be seen at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~polswiet/sandone.html
Research 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, Polaniec, Radkow, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost, and dozens of local villages
Research Records from 1873 to 1939- This web site refers toRecords of the Austrian regime from 1901 to 1918
http://infoukes.com/culture/
From the Nazi occupiedSanok County(Der Kreis Hauptmann-Sanok) from the years1939 to1944recordsare in the Polish State Archives in Przemysl.
Yizkor Book "Sefer Zikaron le-Kehillot Sanok ve-ha-Seviva" There are 348 entriesThe JewishGen Yizkor Book
Necrology Database indexes the names of
persons in the necrologies -- the lists of Holocaust martyrs --
published in the Yizkor Books appearing on the Yizkor Book Project site
at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html
This database is only an index of names; it directs researchers back to
the Yizkor Book itself, where more complete information may be
available.
Located 65 km (40 miles) northwest of Warszawaand 10 km (6 miles) northeast ofPlonsk.
Research 1871 and 1879-1898 Birth, Marriage and Death records from the Polish State Archives in Nowy Dwor Maz.,are included in the JRI-Poland site at
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
Before WW I, Sejny was in Suwalki Guberniya of the "Kingdom of Poland" of the Russian Empire. It is now in northeastern Poland, near the border with Lithuania.
Research "Landsmen", the quarterly publication of the Suwalk-Lomza Interest Group for Jewish Genealogists, has published much information about the Jewish community in Sejny, including extensive extracts of Jewish Births, Marriages and deaths
http://www.jewishgen.org/SuwalkLomza/
Research The Serock Patronymic File for the years 1811-1825, which is based on the information in LDS Film number 1496724, is available as a download. Most of the records are for people living in Serock; there are just a few from other places including, Ciechanow, Komorow, Nasiolski, and Warszawa.
http://www.jri-poland.org
and scroll down to Sources. Look for the link Patronymic Records and click it. When you get to the Patrynomic Years page, scroll down to Serock and in the second column, click on the word "here" for the Excel file.
From a posting by Howard Orenstein Patronymic Years Coordinator and Serock Town Leader, Grodzisk Mazowiecki Archives Project
horenstein@mcdaniel.edu
Synagogue 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 BethHa'tefutsorth Museum.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
Located 10 miles West of Strzelce Opolskieand 15 miles NW ofSlawiecice. W ofKrakow Slawiecice, located in Southern Poland is 15 miles WNW of Gliwiceand 10 miles East of Kedzierzyn-Kozle. West of Krakow.
Research According to a message to Gesher Galicia SIG on 5/23/01, Leslie Gyi stated that "a data sample inSiedlceandSokolow Podlaskiwas 80% incorrect due to missing records, and records incorrectly translated from Russian". Leslie suggests you order one death record for the person you have the most info on, and see if you can figure out where the birth record is located.
Yizkor Book "Yizkor Book Le-Kehilat Shadlitz" (for the Siedlce Jewish community), in Yiddish and some Hebrew, published in Argentina 1955, 800+ pages including pictures, written by (among others) Yitshak Caspi. The book has no index for names. Some parts (but not all) of this book were translated into Hebrew. And, again, no index for names in this newer version. The new book was published by Irgun Yots'ey Shadlitz (Organization of former Siedlce residents). Information about this book from the National Israeli Library at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/eng/
Siemiatycze (Semyatitsh, Semyatitcha)
The shtetl is located north of Shedlitzand about 50 miles fromBialystok in Bialystok province. It had a pre-war population of 4,106 with two thirds being Jewish. It was noted for the manufacturing of cement, bricks, tiles, trunks, stockings and artificial wool. In addition, there was flour milling, saw milling, tanning and woodworking.
Books
"Jewish Bialystok and Surroundings in Eastern Poland" Authored by Tomasz Wisniewski, devotes two full pages to a description and history of the town and he also includes one page with photographs of the town's Great Synagogue, a Talmudic House and the gate of the cemetery.
Yizkor Book "The Scroll of My Life"(Kehilat Smiatycze) Written in Yiddish and translated by Leonard Prager, Editor of Mendele. The Yizkor Book was published in Tel Aviv in 1965 by the Association of Former residents in Israel and the Diaspora
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
From an E-mail I received from David Cohen
dpcohen@bellsouth.net on 3-3-04 "Siemiatyczewas the family seat for many many generations of my family. Regarding your entry about the yizkor buch --- "Scroll of my Life" is a beautiful and quite personal memoir written by a former resident. The true YIZKORBUCH (memorial book)-- "Kehilath Siemiatycze" is a separate and distinct work -- an illustrated compilation of histories and biographical vignettes with a partial memorial list. There were publication committees in Israel and in the United States.
Two versions Yiddish and Hebrew are in one volume are NOT IDENTICAL. One small portion describing the years of German occupation is translated to English.
"Shadows of Treblinka" Another memoir, written by Saul and Miriam Kuperhand -- an excellent description of their survival. I have Semyatitsher relatives still with us, who also survived the war in the forests.
Sieniawa
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"
Authored by M. J. Rosman amounted to 1,115.
Sienno
A town inKielce-Radom Guberniya.Sienno, which can be found at latitude 51deg 5'00 and longitude 21deg 28'00, is currently located in the Province of Kielce in south-eastern Poland.
Maps
To see a map of where Sienno is located along with its neighboring towns, and click on "Click for Map".
Research Jewish vital records of Sienno from 1878-1901 (not filmed by the LDS - Mormons) have been indexed by the JRI-Poland team in Warsaw as part of the Radom Polish State Archives (PSA) Project. * Summary of Sienno Records Indexed *
There are more than 1,800 records that have been indexed as part of this project. The types and years of records are as follows: Births: 1878-1901 (1,083 entries) Marriages: 1878-1901 ( 247 entries) Deaths: 1878-1901 ( 500 entries) Total: 1,830
Sieradz
The nearest big cities were Kalisz and Lodz -both a little over 30 miles away
Research There are no known Jewish records from 1826 and after. Nearby towns with records include Zdunska Wola and Warta.
Sierpc (Shepps" or "Sheptz)
Located in Plock Guberniya northwest of Warsaw. The Yiddish pronunciation of the town name is "Shepps" or "Sheptz". Research Jewish Vital Records from 1826 to 1885. Available from the FHC (Mormon) microfilms. LDS film no. 1,191,027 contains records for 1873-1879
In the Plock branch of the Polish State Archives are the recordsfrom1885 to 1898 and in the Sierpc Civil Records Officeare therecords from 1899 to 1934 with some years missing
A village that had a population of 5,094 in 1931 and is located in the SE Ternopol oblaston the Zbruch River. It is 7 miles NE ofBorshchiv- north of Krakowand was known for tanning, distilling, flour milling, tobacco and hogs. It was an old Polish settlement frequently attacked by Tatars, Walachians and Swedes and was passed to Austria in 1772; reverted to Poland in 1919 and eventually became under the flag of the USSR in 1945. Until 1940, it wasknown asSkiala nad Zbruczem.
Located halfway betweenWarsaw and Lodz. (southwest of Warsaw and north of Lodz).It was a rail junction and manufactured bricks, tiles and it processed cereals. Other industry included brewing, flour milling and saw milling.
Landsmanshaftn You may also want to check Aubrey Jacobus's web siteregarding theSkerniewicer Benevolent Association of New York at
www.mjacobus.freeserve.co.uk
Yizkor book Consists of about 722 pages which includes portraits and photos: "Sefer Skierniewice", edited by J. Perlow, in Tel-Aviv, in Yiddish.
Skola (Skole)
Located in the SE area of Drogobych in East Beskida.On a tributary of the Stry river, it was a summer resort and had a population of 7,543 in 1921. 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 1,063.
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/town/skole.htm
Yizkor Book "Le-zeykher Kedoshei Skolah ve-ha-Seviva"(In Memoriam to the Jewish Community of Skole) Published by the Jewish Committee of Skole in Israel, in 1986 in Hebrew and with illustrations.
Skwierzyna
(German name: Schwerin an der Warthe) a small town (population 10,000) between
Miedzyrzecz
and
Gorzow Wlkp., is located in
Lubuskie, in the west of
Poland.
A town in Lublin Province - north of the larger town Wlodawa and on the Belarusian border. 113.8 miles ESE of Warsaw. It is known historically as a Jewish shtetl, and identified in several known Jewish gazetteers including WOWW. This town was also located within Lublin Province during Russian Empire rule over Poland. The town had about 900 Jewish population before WWII. Articles on this shtetl were published in the "Folks-Sztyme" in 1975 and 1976
There are two probably less known alternatives for Slawatycze in territories once being part of the interwar Poland. One Slawatycze is a small village near MiedzyrzecPodlaski in Bielsk Podlaski vicinity of the Bialystok region and another Slawatyczeis is near Trostyanets (Polish Troscianiec) in Volhynia region of Ukraine.
http://www.kirkuty.xip.pl/slawatyczeang.htm
Research There are marriage partners from all over theKielce-Radomarea including: Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy Korczyn, Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost, and dozens of local villages
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
Sobkow
A town inKielce-Radom Guberniya
Research Jewish Records Indexing has updated indexes from the LDS Microfilms.
In Polish it identifies a falcon, a bird used in hunting. Hence the popularity of a larger towns named Soko'l or Sokolo'w and a bit smaller town (villages) named Sokole, Sokolec, Sokolniki, Sokolowo, Sokolyand Sokolowkaand so on.
Researching Sokoluvka (ex Sokolo'wka) 'near Brody' is most probably a shtetl located at 5002 2451 some 13 miles WSW from Brody and 24 miles N EN from L'viv(ex Lwów).
Prior to WWII, Sokolowka was located in Poland's Zloczow district of Tarnopol Province. 460 Jewish souls were residents of this small town of 2600 people. From a posting by Alexander Sharon on JewishGen on
Sokolka
Located 47 km N ofBialystok. The town had a Jewish presence since the 17th century and had as many as 3,000 Jews before the Holocaust. A nearby village named Palestynawhere Jewish farmers lived. Yizkor Book "Sefer Sokolka"(Memorial Book of Sokolka)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
Sokolovka
13.7 miles WSW of Brody.
Research
This town was a Jewish Administrative sub-district town, which meant that Jewish vital events were registered here in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Jewish Records Indexing (JRI-Poland) has indexed the available records at the AGAD Archives for this town. Only 1897 and 1900 births are available. Just set Province to Ukraine to capture only AGAD record indices
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/jriplweb.htm
Research According to a message to Gesher Galicia SIG on 5/23/01, Leslie Gyi stated that "a data sample inSiedlce and Sokolow Podlaskiwas 80% incorrect due to missing records, and records incorrectly translated from Russian". Leslie suggests you order one death record for the person you have the most info on, and see if you can figure out where the birthrecord is located
Solec
A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya
Sompolno
Holocaust At this site is a source for information about this town plus It is the last photograph of many of Sompolno Jews, taken before deportation to forced labor camp. 60 years later, the survivor identifies more than 100 persons, most of them perished and their names are now recorded
http://www.zchor.org/sompolno/sompolno.htm
A city in Zaglebie Dabrowskie in southern
Poland and is near Katowice. It is one of the central
districts of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union with an estimated
combined population of over two million people and is on the Brynica
river - a tributary of the Vistula. It is in the Silesian
Voivodeship since 1999 and it was previously a part of Katowice
Volvodeship. There are five other smaller towns in Poland
that are also called Sosnowiec and are located in the Kielce,
Lodz and Opole regions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosnowiec
A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya. 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 776.
http://www.staszow.co.uk/
"Kin's Lost Gravestone Unearthed in Polish Town" This is the author Jack Goldfarb's story of the discovery of his grandfather's tombstone dug up from a courtyard during construction in Staszow, November, 1998
http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
Research 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, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost, and dozens of local villages.
Located in the center of the Drogobych oblast, about 4 miles south of the city of Drogobych. It is a small town with a population of over 500 in 1948 and it is a potassium and sodium salt extracting center
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~shtetm~-1055217
A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya and is located northeast of Krakow and southwest of Stashev. Before WW 1, it was a Powiat (district) center in southeastern Kielce Guberniya (Province) of the Kingdom of Poland of the Russian Empire.
Landsmanshaft In Toronto, there is a "Stopnitzer Young Men's Society" - a Landsmanshaft organization. For the address, see the Kielce-Radom SIG Journal, Volume I, Number 4 (Autumn 1997) available at the Kielce-Radom SIG site. The same issue contains list of voters' surnames from the early 20th century.
http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
Research There were 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, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost,and dozens of local villages.
One of 86 Administrative towns in the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland AGAD Archives Project. Landmanschaften Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Uriel Zur-Shitzer
http://jwa.org/archive/jsp/orgInfo.jsp?orgID=74
Research Births: 1870-1872, 1875-1899 Marriages: 1877-1883, 1885-1899 Deaths: 1869-1899
Strzeliska Nowe
Located in the Bobrka district, Lwów Province. It is north northeast of Khodoriv in the northeast part of the Drogobych oblast. This shtetl had a population of over 500.
Research There are Births from 1877 to 1879 and 1890 to 1894; (no death records at this time) Marriages from 1877 to 1893 are stored in the AGAD Archives Branch of the Polish State Archives and are indexed by Jewish Records Indexing - Poland. For details of the AGAD Archives indexing project, refer to the JRI-Poland web site and click on AGAD Archives on the home page
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/
Located about 5 miles east of Zolkiewka or 125.3 miles SE of Warsaw. The name may have been other words at one time: Suche Lipie (from Suche = dry; and Lipie from Lipa - linden tree). Since it is composed of two words, both words change their endings as needed in Polish grammar, so in a phrase like "from Suche Lipie" it would change to "Suchego Lipie"
Suchowola (Suchovola)
Polish inhabitants took part in the anti-Jewish actions that had been started by the Germans. In this town, they drowned Jews in a pond and burned alive a group of the Jewish victims in one of the Jewish houses.
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
Formerly known as Sadowa Wisznia, is located in the Mosciska (Mostiska) district. The name of the town literally means 'Court Cherry Tree'. Prior to WW II, the town had 4,289 inhabitants according to the 1921 census) including 1,829 Jews
Located in the District of Piotrkow Trybunalski. The Yizkor Book offers information on the Jewish Community until 1918; Between The Two World Wars; The Holocaust and Sources of information.
"State of Schovalk" means Suwalki (Poland) region or as it was known in Russian Poland, Guberniya (Province) Many shtetls of this area are situated alongside the East Prussian border.
Research The completion the indexing of the LDS microfilms for all of the 14 towns in the Suwalki Guberniya which meant the completion of approximately 60 microfilms was accomplished in 2005. These covered the years 1826 to the mid 1880's. If you are interested in these files, please send an E-mail to
suwalki@jri-poland.org
In February 2005, JRI-Poland announced the Suwalki LDS project to index all the LDS microfilmed records from the Suwalki branch of the Polish State Archive. I am happy to say that all of the data is now live on the JRI-Poland database. The Suwalki area LDS project encompassed the indexing of 14 towns which included over 40 microfilms and almost 45,000 additional records added to the JRI-Poland database.
The following towns are now fully indexed. In parenthesis I have listed for those towns now in Lithuania the Lithuania variation of the town name. Bakalarzewo Berzniki Filipow Krasnapole Lozdzeije (Lazdijai) Olita (Alytus) Przerosl Punsk Sejny Sereje (Seirijai) Suwalki Szaki (Sakiai) Wiejsieje (Veisiejai) Wizajny From a posting by Hadassah Lipsius JRI-Poland Associate Director
lipsius@verizon.net
Located northwest of Chortkov. In 1921, 2,056 residents lived in this town
Swiecany
Located 8 miles from Lisko
Swirz
(Svirzh)
The earliest mention
about Jewish Community is 1563. 1934 Jewish population
was 220. Swirz (currently Svirzh, Ukraine) was a
Jewish community in Przemyslany district (Brzezany
judicial district) of 312 souls (from the total 2,346
population, acc. to 1880 census) and 184 souls (from the
total 2.349 residents) in 1921 Swirz records for the
period of 1877 to 1942 can be found in the Warsaw AGAD
and Srodmiescie Registry archives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_talk:Ukraine/Featured_picture
Located in the Province/Guberniya of Lublin, 67 km SSE of Lublin at coordinates 50 42'/ 22 58'. It had a Jewish population of 2518 in 1897, 2644 in 1921. Szczebrzeszyn is located in the middle of a ring of other record-keeping towns: Zamosc, Krasnobrod, Bilgoraj, Jozefow Bilgoraj, Frampol, Turobin, Izbica / Tarnogora.
If you have family interests in any of these towns or surrounding areas it is worth your while to look at Szczebrzeszyn also.
Research All indices to the Jewish vital records of Szczebrzeszyn not filmed by the Mormons are indexed by the JRI-Poland team in Warsaw as part of the ongoing Zamosc PSA project.
The PSA database covers the years 1871-75 and 1890-01 and contains 3295 BMD entries: Births: 1623 Grooms: 316 Brides: 306 Deaths: 930
Cemeteries There are two Jewish cemeteries; both in terrible condition. Efforts are underway to collect the cemetery's tombstones that were used, until recently as building materials, and a memorial will be built at the site.
Research 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. This is one of the towns being indexed.
Holocaust One of probably the bloodiest pogroms was carried out by the Poles themselves on the night of June 27th, 1941. There were 300 victims according to similar German and Jewish records. More info is available at
http://www.radzilow.com/tygodnik.htm
This town is situated between Zambrow and Ostrow Mazowiecka
Szydlow
A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya.
Research 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
Research 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, Zawichost, and dozens of local villages
Tarnawa Wyznia
At one time it was in the Austrian district of Turka and right on the border of post war Poland and Ukraine.
A number of sites regarding this shtetl can be found by using "Excite" and a search on Tarnobrzeg
http://search.excite.com
History
Tarnobrzeg had a brewery. I have a postcard of it. There is a very small book, in Polish at the FHL in Salt Lake about the Breweries in Poland, only part two. I do not remember the name of the book from a posting by Gayle Schlissel Rileykey2pst@pacbell.net
Research The Tarnowski records had censuses for 1772(only a few last names) and 1791(with last names). Some Censuses can be found among the Magnate landowner records. As an example, Tarnobrzeg, the Tarnowski records had censuses for 1772(only a few last names) and 1791(with last names).
Yizkor Book "Memories of my Shtetl, Dzikow (Tarnobrzeg)" and "Kehillot Tarnobrzeg-Dzikow" at
Bet David (House of David) - Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Poland, Vol. III
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Dzik%C3%B3w
Tarnopol PSA AGAD
Births
1866-1897,1902-05
Marriages
1878-1897,1902-05
Deaths
1870-76,78-92,94-1905 (All
11,500 death indices are now online)
Tarnopol Wojewodztwa / Ukraine
(Records
in Fond 300 in AGAD Archive)
Located at 4933 2535
Last updated May2007
Tarnorudka
(Tarnoruda in Polish)
Located in the Tarnopol province. In 1921, it had 571 people with 148 of them being Jewish. It is located southeast from Tarnopol Podvolochisk(Polish: Podwololyczyska) and is on the border of the Zbruch River between Satanov and Podvolochisk and 10 miles south of Podvolochisk.
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 771.
It is a historical border town dividing Poland from Soviet Union in the interwar period. During this same period, the town was under the town of Skalat administration. Further information can be found in the Archives of the GesherGalicia SIG. Alexander Sharon wrote up this subject town on January 5, 2001
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriplweb.htm
Tarnow
Holocaust 'Following last deportation during September 1943 to Plaszow, and the final Jewish deportations during the spring of 1944, Tarnow became 'Jew Free' town (Judenrei). Other towns had already reached this status earlier".
They cover Death Records from 1856 thru 1870 (about 13,500) JewishGen JRI-PL Database contains the complete records from LDS film numbers 0948421 and 0948422. There are six years (1858-1863) of Birth Records remaining to be entered from film number 0948420.
Yizkor Book Howard Fink
knowHow@110.netis the Tarnow Shtetl Co-Op Coordinator. The name index in volume 1 of "Tarnow; kiyuma ve-hurbana shel ir Yehudit" (The Life and Decline of a Jewish City) has been transliterated and can be found by following this link
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/
Located across the Bug River from Brest Litovsk, in eastern Poland and about 100 miles East of Warsaw. Some of the larger towns in the same area include: Brest, Biala Poklaska, Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Radzyn Podlaski, Malaryta, Zabolotje, Losice, Drohiczyn, Siemiatycze, Makjanec and Kobryn
Ternopil (Tarnopol, Ternopol )
From 1772 to 1919, it was in Austria's Galizien Crownland (Galicia). During this time it's name was spelled Tarnopol. Prior to that it was in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. From the end of WW I to 1939 it was in Poland and was spelled Tarnopol. Then it was in the Soviet Ukraine and now Ukraine. During the Soviet era it was spelled Ternopol, now it is spelled Ternopil. (see Tarnopol, Ternopol, Tarnopol) - photos, history and a monument at
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm
Research Birth records from 1866 to 1897 and marriage records from 1878 to 1897 are available along with 88 other nearby towns
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/agad/
Cemetery The Jewish Cemetery of Tomaszow (with photos, a map of the cemetery and a number of interesting links) of Tomaszow Maz (Mazowieck) is available at Holocaust There is a translated list of the Holocaust martyrs of Tomaszow Mazowiecki at
http://www.zchor.org/tomaszow/necrology.htm
Research Jewish Records Indexing Birth, Marriage and Death records are available on-line, for the years 1826 to 1886. Tuszyn - Jewish Records Indexing Birth, Marriage and Death records are available on-line, for the years 1826 to 1886
Cemetery Ira Block posted on 1/30/07 "I recently
emailed requested photos from the following shuls/cemeteries. If anyone
wants copies of anything below just send a request via email to
irablock@gmail.com
Synagogue There is an early Baroque masonry synagogue built in 1642 and restored between 1974 and 1978. The synagogue was not destroyed during WW II, although the Nazis did ruin the interior and the women's section according to the Encyclopedia Judaica, No. 15. It is now a museum.
http://ddickerson.igc.org/tykocin.html
Yizkor Book A Memorial Book, Sefer Tykocin, was published in Tel-Aviv in 1949.
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
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
Vilna was in Poland between the two World Wars. And much of what is now southwestern Lithuania was in the "Kingdom of Poland" (Congress Poland) of the Russian Empire between 1815 and 1918.
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/eefaq.html
Located in the district of Novogrudok, Byelorussia, between the two world wars. It was founded in the 14th century on the banks of the River Olshinka. In 1922, the town was included in the Polish territory in a Peace Treaty between Poland and Russia.
Holocaust "On Sunday, Elul 17th, 5702, (8/30/1942), the Vishnive ghetto was annihilated. The church bells began ringing early in the morning, announcing to the gentiles of the surrounding villages about the slaughter. By the thousands, they poured into town, filled its streets and gathered near the synagogue.
A web site, based on the memories about this shtetl, was the basis entitled "The Shtetl and I" Another interesting site, including photos, burial information, map and comments by former residents
http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/vileyka/vileyka.html
Vladimir (Wlodzimierz Wolynski)
It used to be in Poland until 1939. Now it is a part of Ukraine
Wachock
A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya - refer to the Kielce-Radom SIG Journal, II:2 (Spring 1998) for photos and transcript of the 43 remaining Jewish tombstones.
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
There were nearly 300,000 Jews living in Warszawaat the beginning of WWII. It represented the largest Jewish populated city in all of Europe, and only second to New York. It is the capital of the country and the largest
Polish city.
Warsaw, in the minds of the Nazis, was in the General Government.
It was the largest ghetto situated like a captive city - state in the
middle of the occupied Polish capital with a density of seven
people per room, kitchens included. Cut off from the world
outside, it struggled from a beginning of almost total idleness to
become economically viable, to export manufactured goods in return for a
minimum of food and fuel. Despite these facts, unemployment never sank
below 50 percent.
Inside the ghetto, the poorest Jews sold their
beds and pots and pans to slightly more fortunate Jews, while beggars
collapsed on the sidewalks. In 1941, more than 10 percent of the
ghetto population died, emaciated by hunger and wracked by disease. A
little known engineer, Adam Czerniakow, presided as Chairman of the
Jewish Council at this time.
When Poland was attacked
by Nazi Germany in September 1939, he was the deputy chairman of the
Jewish community Council in Warsaw and when the chairman fled, he
became the principal figure in the community and he was then 59 years
old. He kept a diary in which he recorded the weather, meetings,
occurrences and rumors. It is a diary of notes, not edited or
molded, but all the more genuine. The Germans made him the Mayor
of the Warsaw ghetto and he became aware of what was happening in
and around the ghetto more so than before.
On July 21, 1942, an SS "Resettlement
Staff" arrived in Warsaw. Two Latvian police
battalions in German service were brought in to form a cordon
around the ghetto. By morning of the next day, the ghetto was
surrounded and Czerniakow received orders to provide 6,000 persons by 4
p.m. and an equal number every day thereafter. Several categories
of people, including Council members and their families, as well as
craftsman were to be exempt.
Czerniakow raised the question of
the orphaned children, but could not obtain an answer. On July
23rd, he managed to save the vocational school students and made one
last attempt for the orphans, but he was not able to save the children
and he did not want to outlive them. In the evening, as trains
pulled out with deportees from the freight yard adjacent to the ghetto,
Czerniakow swallowed a poison pill that he had kept in in desk drawer
since 1939.
From July to September, about
300,000 Warsaw Jews were gassed in Treblinka, their
corpses and clothing piled high in mounds. Some of the remaining
Jews, who had been deferred because their youth and training enabled
them to work, prepared for the resistance that in April and May of the
following year was to be known as the Warsaw Ghetto battle. This
information was obtained from an article written by Professor Raul
Hilberg, the John G. McCullough Professor Emeritus of Political Science
at the University of Vermont and published in the U. S. Holocaust
Memorial Council Newsletter.
Ira Block posted on 1/30/07 "I recently emailed
requested photos from the following shuls/cemeteries. If anyone wants
copies of Warsaw Ghetto Wall, just send a request via email to irablock@gmail.com
"The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe"
"A Guide to Jewish Warsaw. Warsaw: Jewish Information and Tourist Bureau" Authored by Jan Jagielski and Robert Pasieczny and published in 1990 the book provides six different self-guided walking tours of Jewish Warsaw and background information about Polish and Jewish history and includes many maps and illustrations.
"Hippocrene Insider's guide to Poland's Jewish Heritage" Authored by Joram Kagan and published in New York by Hippocrene in 1992. Reviews the history and culture of Polish Jewry. Provides a town-by-town list of synagogues, cemeteries and other places of Jewish heritage. Includes a chronology of Jewish history in Poland and photographs, maps and addresses of Jewish organizations
Cemetery Brodno Jewish Cemetery The oldest Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, established by Szmul Zbytkower in 1799. It was destroyed by the Germans. In 1985, renovation had begun.
Ira
Block posted on 1/30/07 "I recently emailed requested photos from the
following shuls/cemeteries. If anyone wants copies of anything below
just send a request via email to
irablock@gmail.com
On October 30, 1903, "Conflict
between 500 Jews and the gendarmerie at the Town
Hall at Warsaw, on the occasion of the selection of recruits. Forty
persons
wounded, several mortally." From the American Jewish Yearbook.
1. Miejsca - Locations 2. Ludzie - People (picture of the historian Dr. Emmanuel Ringelblum) 3. Zrodla - Sources 4. Plan Getta- Ghetto Map
Ad. 1 Locations Alphabetically are listed streets within the Ghetto and by clicking on the street name additional data is open. Please note that only few streets are shown on this page. By clicking on the word "wiecej" (more) additional hidden streets names will be visible. By clicking for example on Mila Street there is a column that shows street name (Mila) and the houses No.s on this street. Again there are more data on for houses No.s hidden, please follow with page No.s. Lets open one address, for example Mila 18 (Leon Uris book title). Next to No. 18 click on window "Pokaz' (show).
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/poland/warsawghetto/WarsawGhetto03.html
Upper windows say "Pokaz miejsce na mapie" (show place on the map). By clicking on this window two maps will appear. Small map of the ghetto on the rights show location of the street in relation to the ghetto and the larger map on the left shows detailed ghetto map of the street and house No. 18. This is a vectorial map and is movable, simultaneously small dot on the general map will also move.
Next window on this page "Przejdz do wydarzen" provides descriptive text on what has happened on this particular Mila 18 street
Ad 2. Ludzie People Alphabetical list on many people is listed there. Again many names are hidden. Please click on word 'wiecej' to open additional lists. By clicking for example on the name Fajfer Sara the following information will appear:
Id 21101998082554000001 First Name Sara Surname Fajfer Sex F Status rich Biography Friend from Pola Rotszyld groul Source: Pola Rotszyld: "Relation 033/438; Archives of Yad Vashem"
Ad. 3 Zrodla - sources
Ad. 4 Ghetto map
Perhaps Warszawa Research Group should contact site authors and initialize discussion on translation this incredibly rich material into English. From a posting by Alexander Sharon
http://warszawa.getto.pl/pl/site/
TheWarsaw Ghetto Uprising Began on April 19, 1943. In Hebrew it is called Me'red Ghetto Varsha. During the following weeks, a small number of Jews heroically fought off the Nazis with home made explosives and smuggled weapons. The nearly half-million Jews who had found themselves in the ghetto went to their death without revolting. By the time the uprising took place, most of the ghetto territory, and more than 95% of its Jews were gone.
There wasn't an uprising of the ghetto, but rather of a minuscule remnant of the ghetto. One of the places of Remembrance is the site of the bunker on Mila Street where the chief staff of the Jewish Combat Organization committed suicide in order not to fall into the hands of the Germans. A nearby street is named after M. Anielewicz and there is a commemorative stone slab engraved in Polish, Yiddish and Hebrew. The President of the Jewish Community (Judenrat), and his wife who died after WW II are located in the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery.
http://cyberroad.com/poland/jews_ww2.html
SwientojerskaStreet formed one of the edges of the ghetto -- only the buildings along its northern side belonged to the ghetto. Abutting the street on the north side, i.e. in the ghetto area, was a brush factory compound. The ghetto fighters attacked and killed Germans who had penetrated the compound. Learning a lesson, the Germans shelled the ghetto from the outside by cannons positioned on this street. Information obtained from a letter written by Moshe Git in the American Jewish World of May 9, 2003
The Germans deported 300,000 Jews to Treblinka during the summer of 1942; their journey began from a ramp, known as Umschlag-platz on Stawki Street.
Umschlagplatz (German: collection point or reloading point) in the
Warsaw Ghetto was where Jews gathered for deportation to the
Treblinka extermination camp.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umschlagplatz
Research A wonderful site to visit, but it is in Polish only. It has maps, books and information from best I can tell
http://www.misie.waw.pl/warszawa/
Jewish converts from Warsaw are available for research from the Mormon microfilms files. There are two microfilm reels - 689336 and 689337. They list births, marriages and deaths of the Reformed Church in Warsaw.
JRI-Poland Database Has more than 17,000 Jewish Birth, Marriage and Death records from 1869 to 1898.
www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
Synagogue
The Nozyk Synagogue is located at number 6 Twarda Street in an area of Warsaw that was originally inside the Little Ghetto in 1940, but was later outside the Ghetto after it was made smaller, following deportations. After WW II it became the center of Jewish life.
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/poland/WarsawGhetto/WarsawGhetto06.html
Research Contact Carol Rombro Rider
CRomRider@aol.comwho has a copy of the page from the 1939 Polish Business Directory with this town listed
Wasilkow
(Vashilkova)
Research A copy of the 1939 Polish Business Directory is owned by Carol Rombro Rider
CRomRider@aol.com
Wasiliszki Area Communities
Besides the city of Lida (designatedMiasto Powiat or county town) is and was the largest population center in the district. Other large towns (Miasteczko) were: Eisiskes, Iwie, Lipniszki, Ostryna, Radun, Szczuczyn, Voronovo, Wasiliszki and Zaludok.
http://members.nbci.com/newhoir/lida-site/was-area.htm
Formerly known asVandsburgwhich was in the former district (Kreis) ofFlatowinWest Prussia(Westpreussen) but now in Poland.
Research The Polish State Archives at Bydgoszczhas birth, marriage and death registers of the Vandsburg Jewish community covering the years 1825-1847 and the Family History Center has microfilmed these registers
Wielkie Oczy(means "The Large Eyes" in Polish) and is located some 20 miles NE from Przemysl, very close to the current Poland-Ukrainian border at 5001. 2309.
Prior to WWII this shtetl with a large Jewish population of 550 souls (out of 1,668 total number of the residents) was under the administration of Jaworow(currently Yavorov, Ukraine)district inLwów(L'viv) Province.There are currently 23 entries forWielkie Oczyin JGFF database
The Jews of
Winniki buried their dead in the Lviv cemetery. The
main source of income of the local Jews was trade (shops and
stalls that served farmers and factory workers), plus
peddling (buying agricultural produce and selling it in Lviv).
In 1928 a charitable lending society was established, and it
gave four loans of 400 zlotys in 1929. A branch of Betar, and a
Menorah Association were organized in it in 1930. For this
reason the majority of those who bought Shekels voted for the
Revisionists.
Research
Vital Records are available at AGAD Marriages: 1881, 1883, 1886, 1892-95, 1897, 1899
Deaths: 1885, 1887-89, 1891-92, 1895-96
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
Witkowice (near Radomysl nad Sanem). This particular
Witkowice is located in the same district (Tarnobrzeg) and
the same Province (Lwow) There is another Witkowice
located in the Ropczyce district of Krakow Province. Of
the five JRI-P records deposited in Lwow, Rzeszow and
Tarnobrzeg, two identify Witkowice near Ropczyce.
Tarnobrzeg is located on the right bank of Wisla River which also
separated Krakow and Lwow Provinces. The ShtetLinks page
belongs to Witkowice near Ropczyce, and is part of the
Kolbuszowa research group effort.
1)
Witkowice: 50 44 N, 21 52 E (15 miles from Tarnobrzeg)
2) Witkowice: 50 05 N, 21 38 E (37 miles from Tarnobrzeg)
Synagogue 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.
http://zchor.org/verbin\verbin.htm
This southwestern Polish city was known as Breslauand was a part of Germany before World War II. Today it is Poland's third largest Jewish community and the cultural, economic and scientific center of Lower Silesia. At one time it was home to 20,000 to 30,000 Jews and the center of the Reform movement. It was one of the oldest Jewish communities in Poland. An excellent article authored by Toby Axelrod appears in the March 2008 issue of Hadassah magazine.
http://jewish-heritage-travel.blogspot.com/2010/01/poland-wroclaw-synagogue-restoration-of.html
The oldest houses in the year 1839, were built of wood, and are strange, crazy-looking structures. There is one fine old square used as a marketplace, where the houses have the gable end toward the street, some forming a sharp angle, others of a fanciful shape. In the centre is a bronze statue of Neptune, standing on dolphins, with a fine jet d'eau bursting froth from his trident. At one place, there is a fine statue of Blucher, with one hand grasping the sword, and the other lifted up, as he addresses his army in these words inscribed below, "Mitt Gott fur Konig und Vaterland," "With God's help for King and Fatherland." From a posting by Joseph Rubenstein
Today it is estimated to have between 600 to 1,000 declared Jews. It was located in the former Posen Province.Jerzy Kichler is the Wroclaw based president of the Union of Jewish Congregations in Poland.
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.
Synagogue The neoclassical White Stork Synagogue was built in 1827-29, and was designed by the same architect who designed Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. It is the second largest synagogue in the country. The famous Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary was located directly across the street from the Synagogue. Today, thanks to a more than $1million grant from the German foundation, the synagogue has a new roof and its ground floor has been improved though its two balconies and exterior still need reconstruction.
http://www.pharao.com/cam/Europe/Poland/?Blaszki/transportation.html
Artist Dora Mondschein Shampanier was born here in 1922. More information about Dora, and a bronze of the town's synagogue is available at
http://www.my-synagogue.com/about1.html
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