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If I have missed noting your shtetl below, please let me know and provide as much as information as you have available. It will be added to this page as soon as possible.
E-mail: Jwebindex@gmail.com  Poland Provinces Map site:
http://www.polishroots.com/images/pol1921.gif If the city you are looking for in Poland isn't listed below, I would suggest you go to the following site and just click on the first letter of the town you wish to find
http://www.pharao.com/cam/Europe/Poland/
?Blaszki/transportation.html There is a German and Polish gazetteer that will assist you in
looking up the present names and location of old German and
Polish towns at
www.kartenmeister.com World-Wide Gazetteer
www.fallingrain.com/world/index.html
You might also want to review the towns listed in my Galician page
and you can also search for Vital Records for Galician Towns by visiting
http://www.polishroots.org/galicia_towns.htm
www.polishroots.org/databases/galicia_towns.htm Map of Poland - in Polish
http://mapa.szukacz.pl/ http://www.pilot.pl 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, see
http://www.bmb.pl/
There is a lot of current information about Poland at this site. Names of Towns that Issued Passports - lists of all Town names (birthplace) extracted from the Polish Aliyah Passports Project
http://www2.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/jhi/aliyah-passport_town.htm Mark Halpern, AGAD Archive Coordinator stated in a Gesher Galicia SIG message of 5/24/01 "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 Archives project has unveiled a new and improved Project Status Report. This report will provide 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.com is the AGAD Archives Coordinator of the JRI-Poland Project. ShtetlSeeker - this site gives variant spellings of towns and villages, as well as map co-ordinates
http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/loctown.htm
Polish Cities, Towns,
and Shtetls 
All of the Pinkasim translations are indexed at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_poland/pinkas_poland.html German-Polish town names equivalency
http://www.kartenmeister.com/
The 1902 Map- Polish Provinces of the Russian Empire, http://feefhs.org/maps/indexmap.html Photos by Tomasz Wisniewski - author of the "Tour Guide Jewish Bialystok and Surroundings"
http://www.szukamypolski.com/
Aleksandrow Lodzki - For information contact Joe Ross joeross1220@comcast.net
Amschenov - this was the center of the Amschinover Chasidim. The current Rabbi lives in Israel.
Anin - located near Warsaw. On Poprzeczna Street, the Nazis shot 45 Jews in July of 1942.
Annopol (Annapol) - " the indices to Jewish vital records of Annopol not filmed by the LDS (Mormons) have now been indexed by Jewish Records Indexing - Poland.
The indices are for the birth, marriage and death records of Annopol from 1869 to 1895 stored in the Sandomierz branch of the Polish State Archives. These indices will be added to the JRI-Poland database when funding has been completed.
About the Town - Annopol is located in the Wisla (Vistula) river, 15 km east of Ozarow, 10 km north of Zawichost, 30 km north of Sanomierz and 65 km southwest of Lublin
About the 1869-1895 Records
There are more than 2100 entries in the Annopol records for this period. They include:
Births: 1132
Marriages: 496
Deaths: 521 For further information about the Annopol PSA project please contact Michael Goldrich, MD VoiceMD2@comcast.net "Rachov-Annopol; Pirkei edut ve-Zikaron" (Rachov-Annopol;
testimony and remembrance)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
Annoslaw is now Woj. L~o'dzkie. During the Russian partition period it was in Piotrkow Guberniya.
Antopol -
Jews were killed in the ghetto in the 'aktion' of late July, 1942.
Auschwitz -
this town was known as Oswiecim, but only after the year 1918.
Prior to the end of WWI, it was known as Austrian Auschwitz.
There is a Yizkor Book that has been translated on JewishGen
Augustow -
(Agustov, Augustov, Oygstova, Yagestov, Yagistov, Yagustow, Yagustova, Yogostool) town in Bialystok province,
Poland
Jewish presence: from 1630 Jewish Population in 1939: 4,000 Fate of Jews during WWII: in 1941 the Nazis occupied the town, and executed 1,000 men in the forests. A ghetto was established, from which Jews were deported. Camps and information about the modern town:
http://www.suwalki.tpnet.pl/umaug/ramkiang.htm Augustow
(Pojezierze Mazurskie)
www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~feefhs/maps/ruse Augustow Yizkor Book
- authored by Yoga Rittman, NY "Augustow
aka Pojezierze Mazurskie:
http://www.memo.com/jgsr/database/augustow.cgi
Aurelow - There is a Yizkor Book for this shtetl
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
Bachowice - located near Oswiecim (Auschwitz)
http://www.mapquest.com/cgi-bin/ia_find?link=
ia-map-result&event=find_select&level=5
Baranovicz - Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israelis Itzhak Zukerman
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/POLISH10.HTM
Baranowo
(Baranowie) - a historian is writing a book "History of Baranowo " and is looking for information about Jewish inhabitants of Baranowo near Przasnysz, province Warsaw.
From a posting by Adam adamb1@neostrada.pl
In 1918 year in Baranowie they lived: Abyzon Wasilij, Ajzyk Rostkier, Czarny Josek Dawid, Dyber Abram, Frydman Szul, Frejman Abram, Fryc Srul, Gerber Hersz, Rotenberg Szymek, Sztejnberg Brajna and Chawa, Talma Edward, Tejtelbaum Szlama, Tanb Swia - Baja, Tejtelbaum Moszek, Woldenberg Marjam, Woldenberg Ita, Woldenberg Szlama, Moszka Keniksberg, Josek Safjana, Estera Fryndenberg, Fajga Dyber, EljaszeF1 Zylberg, Leko SzajmaF1, Joseleni Szyry, Estera Renisberg.
In years 1937-1939 in Baranowie 14 families lived Jewish. This in
lance was exchanged head her members as well as number family. It was this following families: Teitelbaum Szlama - family folded oneself with 6 persons, Teitelbaum Tejb - 4 person, Teitebaum Mendel - 6 persons, Teitelbaum Moszek - 6 persons, Izrael Fejba - 3 person, Staber Berek - 3 person, Dyber Szymek - 8 persons, Rotenberg Szymek - 3 person, Blanketny Szlama - 5 persons, Rostkier Ajzyk - 8 persons, Woldenberg Ita - 3 person, Dawid Wygoda - 7 persons, Gniazdowicz Zelek - 5 persons, Taus
Srulek - 3 person."
From a posting by Adam Bialczak adamb1@neostrada.pl
Bedzin (Bendin) - located about 30 km south of Czeztochowas and near Katowice. "Pinkas Bendin" ( A Memorial to the Jewish Community of Bendin) The
Jews Of Bedzin
http://www.avihuronen.com/english/articles/
bedzin/eng-bedzin-notes.html
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/bedzin/BedPh000.html
http://www.avihuronen.com/english/articles/eng-judenrat.html
Yizkor Book List
http://www.isragen.org.il/YIZ/Rambam_books.htm
Belchatow - a small town in central Poland located at Latitude 51/22, Longitude 19/23. It is 23 km (14.3 mi) west of Piotrkow Trybunalski and 50 km (31 mi) south of Lodz. Grocholice, once a nearby town, is now part of Belchatow. The town is located 27 miles south of Lodz in the Piotrkow Guberniya, Lodz Province. For more information about this town, go to:
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belchatow/
The Belchatow Books of Residents are a house by house census with entries spanning more than 50 years up to the end of the 19th century. Unlike a census, updates were made on the same register pages over an extended period. Families are identified with a number sequence identifying each family member. There are columns listing key genealogical information such as house number, surnames, parents' names, dates of birth, occupations, previous domiciles, and remarks - which include information about moves, military service, arrests, etc. There are close to 4,000 listings and 1,521 distinct surnames. The Belchatow indexes are complete on the Jewish Records Indexing Poland website from 1809-1899 with only a few missing years. A complete listing of the surnames can be viewed at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/psa/belchatow_bor_surn.htm
There are 280 towns (in addition to Belchatow) listed as birth location. About one third of Belchatow residents during this time were born in other [mostly] nearby towns including (in order of frequency): Lodz, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Szczercow, Zdunska Wola, Lask, Kamiensk, Pabianice, Baluty, Noworadomsk, Parzniewice, Przedborz, Zelow, Ozorkow, Dzialoszyn, Grocholice, Widawa. For the complete list, see:
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/psa/belchatow_bor_towns.htm If you don't know what happened to your ancestors after the birth records, check Belchatow! From a posting by Roni Seibel Liebowitz Roni19@optonline.net
JRI-Poland Database website
www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
Jewish Records Indexing database
of 5,980 birth, marriages and deaths from 1809 to 1899 are available.
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/belchatow.htm Belchatow Books of Residents have been indexed.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belchatow/
The Belchatow Books of Residents are a house by house census with entries spanning more than 50 years up to the end of the 19th century. Unlike a census, updates were made on the same register pages over an extended period. Families are identified with a number sequence identifying each family member. There are columns listing key genealogical information such as house number, surnames, parents' names, dates of birth, occupations, previous domiciles, and remarks - which include information about moves, military service, arrests, etc. There are close to 4,000 listings and 1,521 distinct surnames. There are close to 4,000 listings and 1,521 distinct surnames. The following surnames are listed over 80 times EACH in the file:
JAKUBOWICZ, SZMULEWICZ,BECZKOWSKI/BECZKOWSKA, MACHABANSKI/MACHABANSKA, WARSZAWSKI/WARSZAWSKA, GOLDBERG, LAJB, MARKOWICZ, FELD, BORNSZTEJN, LIBERMAN,
PRZYBYLSKI/PRZYBYLSKA, ROZENCWAJG, LEWKOWICZ, SZTATLENDER, NOWAK, WAJS, PIASKOWSKI/PIASKOWSKA, JOSKOWICZ, GELBART. A complete listing of the surnames can be viewed at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/psa/belchatow_bor_surn.htm
Belchatow ShtetLinks site
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Belchatow/ There is a Yizkor Book Translation page at the JewishGen site and a pamphlet written in Buenos Aires in 1959 by many of the same people who wrote the Yizkor Book. "Belchatow Yizkor-Bukh" (Belchatow Memorial Book - Two Chapters from "A Ruined Garden")
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Menachem Sharon Menachem Sharon
27 Bezalel St
Tel Aviv 64683
Israel
There is an active Landsmanshaftn in the US. Contact is the secretary, Phyllis Bell at: hilphyl@yahoo.com
or Roni Liebowitz Roni19@optonline.net
Belyy Kamen -
The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html
Belzec -
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.
Belzyce -
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 Lublin but not filmed by the Mormons. Earlier years which were filmed by the Mormons are already on-line
www.jri-poland.org.
Berezhany
(Brzeziny, Brzezany, Brezany, Byeryezhany) - this town is located in Eastern Galicia or Western Ukraine formerly in USSR 1944-1991, Poland 1920-1939 and Austria-Hungary 1172-1918 and is the district center in Ternopil region which 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 are at
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" by M. J. Rosman amounted to 1,270.
The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists
Births, Marriages, Deaths records
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html Birth Records - 1864-1898
Marriage Records - 1875-1897
Death Records - 1870-1876, 1882-1895 Memorial page to bygone world of Berezhany Jews
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/
Roman_Zakharii/brzezaner.htm Surname List
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/psa/brzezanysurn.htm Update from "History of the Jews in the Bukowina,"
("Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina,")
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Bukowinabook/bukowina.html Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/berezhany/berezhany.html Berezhany District - site contains list, descriptions of all villages, photos and history
http://www.personal.ceu.hu/students/97/Roman_Zakharii/galicia.htm
Beuthen -
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.
Births (1867-1935-1937); Deaths 1867-1940; Burials 1741-1939;
Marriages 1880-1995 records are at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriplweb.htm
Bialaczow - A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya
http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
Biala Podolska - Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from
Poland in Israel is Avraham Gvirtz
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/POLISH10.HTM
Bialy Kamien - surname list
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/psa/bialykamiensurn.htm
Bialobrzegi - A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya
http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
Bialystok - (Bialystok is Polish, Bielostock is in Russian) and in 1906-1907) it belonged to the Russian Empire. It is a medium sized city located in northeastern Poland. Today
Bialystok belongs to Poland.
The Bialystok Center is located at 228 E. Broadway, New York, NY 10002. Phone 212 475 7755. The Center offers copies of the Yizkor Book for sale. An inventory of on-line records for Bialystok is available at
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/bialy.htm
The town, until the Holocaust, had a large Jewish population, depending on the source of the information - something like 40% of the total population. A great deal of information is available at
http://www.zchor.org/bialystok/bialystok.htm
bialystok.htm
Jozefina Szaper Modzelewska whose husband was a teacher at the Bialystok Hebrew Gymnasium wrote her story of her survival during WW II
http://www.zabludow.com/ModzelewskaOrdeal.html
A description of a visit to Bialystok after WWII by a survivor is available at:
http://www.zabludow.com/yiskor7DavidZabludovsky.html Bialystok Cemetery information -
an index is being developed of between 6,000 to 7,000 tombstones that still exist in the cemetery. The Wschodnia Street Cemetery is also called the Bagnowka Cemetery and is the only Jewish cemetery in Bialystok that still has visible gravestones. It is next to a Catholic cemetery.
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~archpop
enter
"Bialystok Cemetery Project"
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/bialygen/JewCathWall.htm http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/bialygen/BialCem.htm http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/bialygen/CemArticle.htm BIALYGen
(Bialystok Region Jewish Genealogy Group
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/bialygen/BialCem.htm
Napoleon occupied Bialystok for one year between 1795 (when it became part of
Prussia in the 3rd partition of Poland) and 1808 when it became part of
Grodno Guberniya, Russian Empire Photo of Synagogue
http://members.tripod.com/~mikerosenzweig/polsynagog.htm http://members.core.com/~mikerose/polsynagog.htm
There is a list of Bialystok voters at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/surnames/bialysto.htm
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. Unfortunately, the Germans made it a "model" for burning Jews inside of a synagogue.
bialystok.htm Database search for Bialystok
www.rtrfoundation.org
Once there, you will see the most up-to-date index of Jewish Records pertaining to Bialystok and which archive the records are stored in. To obtain copies of the records, check out the Belarus SIG and JRI-Poland databases. If they are not available there, you will either have to go to Grodno and Bialystok or, hire a private researcher.
"The Immortal Spirit, The Bialystok Hebrew Gymnasium, Poland, 1919-1939" authored by Yaacov Samid, and translated from Hebrew to English by Stanley Hillel. The Hebrew Gymnasium in Bialystok was the first school outside of Palestine where all subjects both religious and secular were taught entirely in Hebrew. It had many graduates that went on to become well known including Yitzhak 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.
Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Michael Fliker
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/POLISH10.HTM Bialystok Province - in the first few weeks of November, 1942, as part of German Operation Rhinehard, the liquidation of all the Jewish communities in the countryside of Bialystok Province was 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 from Bialystok 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 November 02, 2002 by Tilford Bartman bartmant@earthlink.net
www.zabludow.com
Bielsk Podlaski - Grodno, Poland
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bielsk_Podlaski/ There is a Bielsk Landsmanshaft or burial organization in Israel.
Bielsko-Biala -
located about 15 km. to the west of Brest Litovsk. On June 29, 1942 the Nazis herded up the Jews of this town. P. B. Dorman representing "The Polish Jews"
http://jewpol.home.ml.org
knows of records of Jews deported to Biala Podlaska and Jews transported from Biala Podlaska to Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Warsaw, Brzesc, Siedlce, Janow Podlaski Community in Bielsko-Biala Podlaski.
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
Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Michael Mechaof
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/POLISH10.HTM
Bielsk-Podlaski - once was part of Russian Poland Grodno
Guberniya - 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
Bieszczady Region -
today it is a popular tourist destination. Photographs of the area are available at
http://fizyka.phys.put.poznan.pl/~spoon/karp.htm
To see the click on the various links, then on the resultant pages click on the link at the bottom.
Bilgoraj -
Province of Zamosc, Lublin Guberniya and is in the south of the Lubelskie
province. Maps and more at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pollubel/powbilg.html
Biskupice -
had a Jewish presence
Blahowna
- located at 50.36 north and 15.27 east
Blaszki -
http://www.pharao.com/cam/Europe/Poland
/?Blaszki/transportation.html
Bobrka - (Bobrka) Bobrce, Boiberke ) the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is indexing records for 90 districts and sub-district towns in the former Galician provinces of Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisiawow. Nearby towns and villages may also have registered their vital records in these district and sub-district towns. Records are from 1863 to 1900. The town is currently in Ukraine and additional information available in the Ukraine Shtetl page.
The town is near Krosno and Zmigrod in Western
Galicia according to a translation of the Polish "Slownik Geograficzny" published between 1880 and 1902.
There are three Bobrka in Poland: Bobrka in the Krosno area which had a prewar Jewish population of 8 families and is 82 km west-southwest of Przemysl; Bobrka in the Lesco area with a pre war Jewish population of 27 families and located 50 km south-southwest of Przemysl and Bobrek (Bobrek Karf) with a Jewish population of 28 and located 94 km southwest of Krakow.
The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html Birth Records - 1863, 1865, 1872-1876, 1878-1900
Marriage Records - 1866-1867, 1871-1873, 1875
Death Records - none ShtetLinks page
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bobrka/default.htm Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/bobrka/bobrka.html
Bochnia -
"Germans and Polish police had killed there 9 Jews on October 20, 1944. Their corpses were left there. The local village administrator arranged the burial on an unmarked site. The bodies were buried about 2.5 m (8 ft) deep. The site was shown to the two visitors. The list of names cited by the Polish friend includes: Mr. and Mrs. STATTER (may be spelled differently) and Jozef BELDENGRIN".
"Dr. Rachel Kollender, is the chairperson of the Association of Bochnia Jews in Israel. The Bochnia branch of the Polish State Archives is capable of providing vital data information on many of our ancestors in this area. I regret not to have been able to find information on any such activities of people from Bochnia and vicinity. Reading about a multitude of activities of survivors/descendents of other cities, many of these with smaller Jewish populations, I call on anybody with historical ties with Bochnia and vicinity, wherever they may be living, to join, cooperate, participate."
From a posting by Willy Zalmon (Zollmann) wizal@actcom.co.il
Bodzentyn -
A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya and is in the Kielce Powiat. It is 24.7 kilometers ENE of Kielce and 144.5 kilometers S of Warsaw. There are more than 3,000 records indexed: Births: 1885-1904; Marriages: 1885-1904 and Deaths: 1885-1904
http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
A list of all surnames is at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/surnames/bodzentyn.htm
Bogoria - a small town (only 575 Jews in 1897) in Sandomierz Powiat (district) of Radom Guberniya. Complete extracts of all Jewish marriages from 1826 to 1877 as extracted by Warren Blatt
http://www.jewishgen.org//krsig
There are marriage partners from all over the Kielce-Radom area including: Chmielnik, Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy Korczyn, Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost, and dozens of local villages.
Boguslawow -
located near Rozanka in Nowogrodek (Novogrodek) Province in Pre-war
Poland
Boguslawy -
located near Bieniakonie in Nowogrodek (Novogrodek) Province in Pre-war Poland
Bolchow
(Bolechow) - included in the JRI-PL database - now located in Ukraine.
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/agad/agadtowns.html
Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Shlomo Adler
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/POLISH10.HTM
Bolekhov
(Bolechow) - The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records from 1877-1898 and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html Birth Records - 1877-1898
Marriage Records - none
Dearth Records - 1877-1898 ShtetLinks page
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bolekhov/ Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/bolekhov/bolekhov.html
Boleslaw -
A town in
Kielce-Radom Guberniya
http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
Borislav
(Boryslaw) - The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records from 1878 - 1899 and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html Birth Records - 1878-1889, 1894-1899
Marriage Records - none
Death Records - 1878-1899
There is a Jewish cemetery in existence for the past 200 years. More information about the cemetery can be obtained from William Fern
Whfern@aol.com http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Drohobycz/Drogobych.html http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Drohobycz/dro171.html Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Borislav/Borislav.html
See also my
Ukraine Shtetls
and my Galicia
pages
Borishchev
(Borshchev, Borszczow) formerly in Poland and now in Ukraine - The JRI-Poland /Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records from 1846-1898 and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html Birth Records - 1873-1875, 1877-1894
Marriage Records - 1846-1876
Death Records - 1877-1898 ShtetLinks Page
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/
Borschev/borschev.html Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/borszczow/borszczow.html
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/pinkas_poland/pol2_00102.html
Photo courtesy of Brest Online Brest -
(In Polish: Brzesc-nad Bulgemi) is located about 120 miles east of Warsaw
- near the Bug river and just north of the Ukrainian
border.
Invasion: Battles and War Crimes
Fallen Soldiers
http://felsztyn.tripod.com/germaninvasion/ The Brest Ghetto Passport Archive
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/brest.htm
Brest was formerly known as Brest-Litovsk and 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. Litovsk Passport database story
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?strwebhead=
Internet+archive+lists+Nazi+victims&intcategoryid=5
(Note: you may have to do a cut and paste) Photo of Brest (Brzese) Synagogue
http://members.tripod.com/~mikerosenzweig/polsynagog.htm http://members.core.com/~mikerose/polsynagog.htm "Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora" - volume 2 has been updated There is a Yizkor Book for this city. This City has its own web site with much information
http://www.brestonline.com/
Breslau
(see Wroclaw) - located at one time in the Posen Province.
Jewish Community e-mail address: wroclaw@jewish.org.pl They offer limited help and have documents about the burial names in the large Kosel cemetery. The archive and the university library have address and phone books from 1880 until 1940.
Brody -
during the time period between WWI to WWII this town was located in Poland now in
Ukraine Photo of Brody Synagogue
http://members.tripod.com/~mikerosenzweig/
polsynagog.htm http://members.core.com/~mikerose/polsynagog.htm
Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Lilian Finka
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/POLISH10.HTM
Brok -
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.
A personal story of the deportation and liquidation of the Brzesko Jewish community is discussed by a woman who was there. Most were killed in Belzec. Mrs. Ester Spagatner Friedman published her memoirs which she wrote in Polish immediately after WW2. The book was published in Poland and is titled "Daleka Droga Do Domu" (you can find through Google). It was also published in Hebrew. It contains many details about Brzesko, Krakow, schools, Plaszow, Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Brzeziny - there is a Yizkor Book
Brzeziny
Brzeznica
(Nowa) - Located 21 km west of Radomsko. Records for the years 1816 to 1864 - JRI-Poland Database website
www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya.
http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
Brzhotik
(Brzostek) - located east of Krakow and southeast of Tarnow
Brzosdowce -
This town had a wooden synagogue that was
destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz
Yakum Israel built by Moshe Verbin
and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum.
verbin.htm
Buchach
(Buczacz) - located near Brzezany.
The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html Birth Records - 1849, 55, 59, 60, 63, 65, 66, 69, 71, 72, 1875-89-90 ShtetLinks page
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/
Buchach/buchach.html
Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/buchach/buchach.html
Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Ester Cohen
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/POLISH10.HTM
Budanov
(Budzanow)- The JRI-Poland/Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html Birth Records - 1867-1875, 1877-1896
Marriage Records - none
Death Records - 1877-1889 ShtetLinks Page
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/
Budanov/budanov.html The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html
Bukachevtsy - once in Poland and now in Ukraine. The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html Birth Records - 1865-1876
Marriage Records - none
Death Records - none ShtetLinks Page
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bukaczowce/bukmain.htm Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/pinkas_poland/pol2_00089.html
Bukowsko (Bakavsk, Bikavsk, Bikovsk, Bukovska, Bukivs'ko) located 196.6 miles South Southeast of Warsaw. Debbie Raff seraph@dc.rr.com has a web site "Bukowsko - A shtetl in Poland" which includes maps, etc.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bukowsko
and also offers a newsgroup at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bukowsko_triangle/ Debbie Greenlee located some Jewish entries within the Church Census (Spis) Records of the parish church of Bukowsko. She was able to extract some information and also has photos of all pages from one of the volumes. Jewish residents of Bukowsko
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Bukowsko/Spis.htm
Burshtyn (Bursztyn) (Bursztyn)
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html Birth Records - 1848-1873, 1877-1898
Marriage Records - 1849-1875, 1878-1899
Death Records - 1848-1882, 1884-1896
Burzenin - For information contact Joe Ross joeross1220@comcast.net
Busko-Zdroj - Brzesko Nowe -
A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya
Bychawa - "all known Jewish records housed in the Lublin branch of the Polish State Archives include 100 years of birth, marriage and death records for Jews in the town have been indexed. These include Kahal (Jewish Community) records and civil registrations for births from 1797-1897, marriages from 1797-1894, and deaths from 1797-1897.
If you are interested in more information about this comprehensive project, please contact me privately at: RobinnM@aol.com. If you are wondering if your family surnames appear in these records, please include a request for me to look them up, and I will gladly help you."
Bydgoszcz (Bromberg)
www.bydgoszcz.pl/index3.html
www.bydgoszcz.pl/index3.html
homepage in Polish is
www.bydgoszcz.pl
The State Archive in Bydgoszcz
85-009 Bydgoszcz, ul. Dworcowa 65,
Dyrektor Dr Janusz Kutta
Phone: (0-52) 22 35 11;
Sekretariat (0-52) 22 96 76 w. 33 http://ciuw.warman.net.pl/
This town was previously known as Bromberg.
Also try
http://www.pharao.com/cam/Europe/Poland/
?Blaszki/transportation.html
Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Mordechai Rubinstein
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/POLISH10.HTM
Bytom
(formerly Beuthen) - there are some Jews living in this town today according to Israel Pickholtz isai8v10@actcom.co.il Katowice 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 of Katowice as well as the town Dabrowa Gornicza and a village Dabrowa just east of Myslowice. There is no more than 20km between all 4 places. The Beuthen suburb was part of Prussian "Upper Silesia", as opposed to Austrian Galicia or Russian Poland. From a posting on JewishGen 4-25-03 by Rodney Eisfelder eisfelderr@ACSLINK.AONE.NET.AU
There are 34 or more researchers listed for people researching the families from this town. Vital and related records at
www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
Also, contact Lance Ackerfield of Kibbutz Yiftah, in Israel for information on joining the Shtetl Co-op
Translation of unpublished list prepared in 1942: "Jews deported from Beuthen (Bytom) Upper Silesia"
Bzury -
one of the cruelest murders of Jewish women occurred here when some Polish men from Szczuczyn raped some 20 Jewish women in a local forest before killing them and stealing their clothes. More info at
http://radzilow.com/tygodnik.htm
Ciechanöw
(Chechanow) - Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Yosef Klapus
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/POLISH10.HTM
Checiny - Brzesko Nowe - A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya
http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig Complete extracts of all Jewish marriages in this city from 1868 - 1884 transcribed into English, has over 700 records and includes surrounding towns of Chmielnik, Kielce, Nowy Korczyn, Lopuszno, Przedborz, Radoszyce and Wloszczowa. There was a Jewish presence located in this shtetl. Read Ruth Ellen Gruber's "The Shtetl Route"
http://www.centropa.org/
http://www.centropa.org/traveltips.asp
The Kielce-Radom SIG Journal
http://www.jewishgen.org//krsig
Chelm - a small town in eastern Poland. A very good article in the January 2004 issue of Geographical magazine (in Hebrew) is entitled "The Wise Men of Chelm" which details a description of this small town, its legends, its history and present, with photographs. The article ends with a quote from Beshvis Zinger's story "Shlumiel Man of Chelm".
http://www.masa.co.il/ Chelm Landsmanshaft in Israel - there was a Jewish Presence: From 1442. Jewish Population in 1939: Approx. 15,000. Fate of Jews during WWII: Starting with German occupation, Jews forced on death marches, and deported in massive "Aktionen" to Sorbibor death camp. Only 15 survived. see:
Communal History http://www.jewish-chelm.org Yizkor-Bukh Chelm (Commemoration book Chelm)
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translations.html
Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Avraham Beker
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/POLISH10.HTM
Chelmo - Death Camp for "Total Extermination" lists the testimonies of the last prisoners and list of the Jewish Communities liquidated in Chelmo
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/chelmno.htm
Chodziez - until 1877 the town was called Chodziesen. From 1877 it was Colmar or Kolmar. The current Polish name of the town is Chodziez and it is situated approximately 65km north of Poznan.
Chmielnik - 18 miles southeast of Pilov (Pulawy) - Brzesko Nowe -
A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya
http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig "The Sara's Children" - authored by Suzan Hagstrom. In 1946 a pogrom occurred and this is one of the events described There was a Jewish presence located in this shtetl. Read Ruth Ellen Gruber's "The Shtetl Route"
http://www.centropa.org/
http://www.centropa.org/traveltips.asp
There was an offer to lookup individual marriages for this shtetl by David Price at dprice@sympatico.ca on a "if free time is available" basis.
There are marriage partners from all over the Kielce-Radom area including: Dzialoszyce, Iwaniska, Klimontow, Kurozweki, Lagow, Lipsko, Nowy Korczyn, Olesnica, Olkusz, Opatow, Ostrowikec, Ozarow, Pacanow, Pinczow, Polaniec, Radkow, Sandomierz, Slupia Nowa, Staszow, Stopnica, Szydlow, Tarlow, Zawichost, and dozens of local villages.
http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Nachum Mali
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/POLISH10.HTM
Chodecz (Kho dech) located in the Wloclawek area of the historical Polish Kujawy region. Chodecz is 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 Russian hands. There also was in existence Prussian and Austrian Poland.
Chodkow (Chodkow Nowy), 5km from Koprzywnica and 16 km from Sandomierz (Poland).
Chodrow (Chodorow, Khodorov)- Bobrka District, Lwów Province. This town had a wooden synagogue that was destroyed by the Nazis. A wooden model is on display at Kibbutz Yakum Israel created by Moshe Verbin and another part of the display is at Beth Ha'tefutsorth Museum.
verbin.htm
Chodziesen - located in the Poznan (Posen) region has been renamed to Prussian Kolmar in 1886. Following the end of WW II and redrawing country maps, the town has been re-named to Polish Chodzez (pronounced Kho dzheh zh)
Chomentow - Brzesko Nowe - A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya
http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
Chortkov (Czortkow) - once in Poland and now in Ukraine. The JRI-Poland / Polish State Archives lists Births, Marriages, Deaths records and the estimated cost of Indexing and the current status at
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/agad/agadtowns.html Birth Records - 1874-1898
Marriage Records - none
Death Records - 1884-1898 ShtetLinks Page
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostav/Chortkov/chortkov.html Yizkor Book
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/chortkov/Chortkov.html
Chorzele - JRI-Poland Database website
www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl Contact for the
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/POLISH10.HTM
Chrzanow - "Sefer Chrzanow; Lebn un umkum fun a Yiddish shtetl" (Chrzanow; the life and destruction of a Jewish shtetl) Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Shoshanna Hirshberg
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/POLISH10.HTM
Ciechanow - located 7 km north northwest of Warsaw. Vital research data is held in the Mlawa Archive. The Ciechanow web page can be found at
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Ciechanow/ 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 There is a Yizkor Book (not translated)
http://www.JewishGen.org/JewishGen-erosity/YizkorTrans.ihtml
Ciepielow - A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya
http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
Cisie - located at 50.33 north 15.28 east
Cmielow - A town in Kielce-Radom Guberniya
http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig
Crakow (Cracow) - see also Krakow
http://www.pharao.com/cam/Europe/Poland/
?Blaszki/transportation.html
Czchow - SE of Krakow
Czechow - Yizkor Book Pinkas HaKehillot Polin, vol. III - located NE of Krakow
Czeladz - included in JewishGen's ShtetLinks site
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/ Yizkor Book
Pinkas HaKehillot, Poland, vol. 5
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html
Czestchoma - There is a Jewish cemetery recently cleaned by Israeli high school students together with Polish high school students.
http://www.gidonim.com/English/
Click on map to enlarge Czestochowa - Contact for the Jewish Landmanschaften from Poland in Israel is Arie Adelist
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/4017/POLISH10.HTM
Czestochowa.html Czestochowa1.html "Books of Residents" or Ksiega Ludnosci.) "This is a hugel | 
