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The purpose of this Geni project is to identify and collect residents and former residents or people who are connected with the Jewish town of Slesin, Poland. Additions are welcome. Ślesin is a town in Konin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 3,324 inhabitants. In partitioned Poland it belonged to the Russian-controlled Congress Kingdom from 1815; it returned to Poland when the co...
This project attempts to identify and collect Jewish individuals from or connected to the town of Sompolno, or Sompolna, Poland. Located in Wielkopolska Province at 52°24′40″N 18°30′10″E. External Links: JewishGen locality page: [ ] JRI Poland: [ ] Virtual Shtetl: [ ] Archives Document Scans (the majority of BMD records from 1826 on are digitized: [ ]. There are also some Jewish docu...
The first mention of Stopnica (known then as Stobnica) comes from the 12th century, but a gord, or Slavic settlement, had existed here earlier. According to Jan Długosz’s chronicle Annales seu cronici incliti regni Poloniae, in 1103, the parish priest of Stopnica, the Right Reverend Baldwin, became the Bishop of Kraków. In 1362, Stopnica was granted civic rights by King Casimir III the Great. O...
Scope of Project ===Seventy-five years before the emancipation of the slaves and one hundred fifty years before women began voting in the United States, the Shakers were practicing social, gender, economic, and spiritual equality for all members. Yet, possibly because the Shakers were celibate and did not marry or bear children, their individual histories have been generally overlooked in the g...
Jewish Families from Strusiv, Ukraine (Formerly Galicia, Austro-Hungary) Strusiv is a very small town located in Ternopolskaya at 49º20 25º37, near Ternopil and 12 km from Terebovlya and 120 km from Chernovtsy. The cemetery is located at SW village, near entry from Buchach. Present town population is 1,000-5,000 with no Jews. The earliest known Jewish Community was 18th century. 1939 Jewish pop...
This is a shell for Jewish Families of Szczebrzeszyn please join, add profiles and add to the description. Szczebrzeszyn Yizkor Book Samuel Gruber's Blog- Szczebrzeszyn Jewish Virtual Libray- Szczebrzeszyn Virtual Shtetl-Szczebrzeszyn JRI-Poland- Szczebrzeszyn Jewish Cemetery Project- Szczebrzeszyn Jewish Cemetery Search - Gidonim Project
GORLICE also called Gorlitza (Yiddish), Gorlits, Gorlitse*Today Gorlice, Malopolskie, Poland - formerly Gorlice, Galicia, Austria*62 miles ESE of Kraków, 20 miles E of Nowy Sącz.*Jewish Population in 1900: about 3,000 TIPS FOR JOINERS TO THIS GROUP # press "actions" button in upper-right corner# select "add profiles"# pick everyone in your tree from Gorlice (Geni may take an hour or more to att...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland.Grodzisk Mazowiecki is a town located 30 km. southwest of Warsaw. The town had a Jewish community and it had been the center of the Hasidic Grodzhisk dynasty, (Grodzisk Mazowiecki being pronounced as "Grodzhisk" in Yiddish.) Grodzisk was the birthplace of Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889-1943), also known as...
Photographs and text by Julian H. Preisler Dobrin in Yiddish Former Jewish community in Lipno Province, Poland. [GPS: 52.6385%C2%B0 N / 19.3215° E, 52°38'18" N / 19°19'17" E]Dobrzyń nad Wisłą (Dobrin in Yiddish) is located on the Wisłą (Vistula) River in the Włocławek Province of Poland. It is a small town located halfway between the cities of Włocławek and Płock in central Poland. The town, f...
Jewish Families from Chortkiv (Czortkow) This is a project for Jewish Families from the Galician town of Czortkow in what is now the Ternopil Oblast of Ukraine at 49°01'00 Longitude: 25°48'00. External Links: Czortkow Records on JRI-Poland.org Kehilalinks-Czortkow Czortkow on Wikipedia
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from Cisna, Poland. [ Gesher Galicia-Cisna ] Background Cisna [%CB%88t%CD%A1%C9%95isna] (Ukrainian: Тісна, Tisna) is the main village of the Gmina Cisna in the Lesko County, in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (province) of south-eastern Poland. It lies in the Solinka valley in between the Bieszczady mountains. History The village ha...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Chrzanów, Poland. Chrzanów in Wikipedia JewishGen Memory Book for Chrzanów ===Background and History=== Chrzanów [%CB%88x%CA%82anuf] ( listen) (German: 1941-1945 Krenau)[1] is a town in southern Poland with 39,704 inhabitants as of 2006. It is situated in the historical Lesser Poland Voivodeship (since 1999) and is the ca...
Jewish Families from Chorostkow (Khorostkiv, Ukraine) The purpose of this project is to identify and connect all of the Jewish families of the small town of Chorostkow. Chorostkow, now called Khorostkiv is located between Husiatyn and Kopyczynce, on the banks of the River Taina in the Ternopil Oblast of the Ukraine in what was once Galician Podolia. The village was granted the rights of a sma...
Jewish Families of Chojna, Poland (Formerly Koenigsberg in der Neumark, Prussia) This project is intended to catalogue the Jewish families living now or in the past in Chojna in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland that was formerly Königsberg in der Neumark "King's Mountain in the New March" in Prussia. It is a small town in northwestern Poland in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship approxima...
Jewish Families from Bydgoszcz (Formerly, Bromberg) This is project is for Jewish Families from or connected to the town of Bydgoszcz, Poland (formerly Bromberg in Posen, Prussia). Jews first started to settle in the vicinity of Bydgoszcz in the Middle Ages. The royal charter of 1555 forbade Jews from living in the town itself. The incoming Jews settled in the neighbouring Fordon, which boaste...
Jewish Families from Borek in Posen, near Rokycany This project attempts to identify and collect Jewish individuals from or connected to this town in the Posen area. Not to be confused with other towns of the same name in the Czech Republic or elsewhere. The formerly independent village of Borek is located ca.2 km east of Rokycany's town center. It is a small town in the Posen district, for...
Jewish Families from Bielsko-Biała (Bielitz) Bielsko-Biała was established in 1951 with the amalgamation of two towns on the opposite side of the Biala River, Silesian Bielsko and Lesser Poland’s Biala. Jews settled in Bielsko as early as the second half of the 17th century but the community only began to grow significantly in the second half of the 19th century when trade and residence restri...
Jewish Families from the Town of Poddebice near Kalisz, Poland Poddębice is a town in Poland, in Łódź Voivodeship, about 40 km northwest of Łódź. It is the capital of Poddębice County. Population is 7,630 (2016). Poddebice was in the Guberina or Leczyca of Kalisz in Poland. There is a Pinkas Hakehillot Polen Yizkor book for this town here: www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/pinkas_poland/pol1_00184a....
Jewish Families from or connected to Trzemeszno Tremessen Poland (Prussia) This Project is for Trzemeszno that lies near Gniezno (Gnesen), some distance East of Poznan, in the former area of Prussia, in Poland, in the Posen area. Nearby are the towns of Mogilno, Witkowo, Pakość (Pakosch) and villages:Gębice, Rogowo. This project is NOT for a town with a similar name: Trzemeszno Lubuskie (hist...
Jewish Families from or connected to Schwerin on the Warthe (Kreis Schwerin an der Warthe) Posen, Poland Schwerin an der Warthe | Skwierzyna, Lubusz Voivodeship, Posen now Poland. A town on the frontier of Poland and Germany. Not to be confused with the Town of Schwerin in Mecklenburg in Germany. Mentioned in Luft, The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835, Revi...
Jewish Families from or connected to Pleszew Pleschen, Poland Pleszew [%CB%88pl%C9%9B%CA%82%C9%9Bf] is a town in Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship, about 90 km southeast of Poznań. It is the capital of Pleszew County (powiat pleszewski). Population is 17,892 (2004). In the time of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and1835 this town was in Pleschen County along with the towns of Neustadt a/...
Jewish Families from or connected to Piaseczno, Mazovian, Poland This project is created to collect and identify Jewish families and individuals from the town of Piaseczno in the Mazovian area of Poland. Piaseczno is a town in central Poland with 47,660 inhabitants. It is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship, approximately 16 kilometres south of Warsaw. It is a popular residential area and a ...
Jewish Families from or connected to Leczyca, Poland This Jewish Town Project attempts to collect and identify Jewish people from the town of Leczyca or Łęczyca in Poland. It is one of many towns in the area that had a large population of Jewish individuals up to the World War II era . Source Wikipedia. "Jews had been an important part of the population of Łęczyca since the late 1400s. At the...
Jewish Families from or connected to Gnesen Gniezno Prussia Wagrowiec Poland This project was created to identify and collect Jewish individuals and families from the small town of Gnesen or Gniezno in the Wagrowiec Area of Poland. Gnesen is located at 52 Degrees, 33 Minutes North, 17 Degrees, 36 Minutes East. Nearby are Witkowo, 11 miles SE, Skoki, 20 Miles WNW, Swarzedz, 24 Miles WSW and Wagr...
Babimost (German: Bomst) is a small town in Poland in the Lubusz Voivodeship, Zielona Gora County. Area: 3,6 km², Population: 4,300 (2001), City rights: 1397. Until 1945 Babimost (German: Bomst) was part of Germany. In 1871 the town had 2272 inhabitants, of whom 1042 were Catholics (mostly Poles), 1070 were Evangelical Lutherans (mostly Germans) and 160 Jewish. After the territorial changes f...