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Jewish Families from Wieruszów, Poland
This is a project for Jewish Families of Wieruszów, Poland.
This project seeks to identify and collect all of the Geni profiles of Jewish individuals connected with Wieruszów and also Jewish families from the town of Wieruszów, Poland.
Located on the western bank of the Prosna River and on the southern side of the S8 Highway, east of Kepno and west of Sokolniki, Lututow, Weilun, Zloczew and Sieradz.
It is in the southwestern part of Łódź Voivodeship at coordinates: 51°18′N 18°9′E.
According to Ghetto Fighters House Archives, some 2,000 Jews lived in Wieruszow before the war.
(Source: [http://www.infocenters.co.il/gfh/list.asp])
External Links:
Town profile from Virtual Shtetl Website
[https://sztetl.org.pl/en/towns/w/530-wieruszow/99-history/138235-hi...]
Town profile from The Museum of The Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot
[https://dbs.bh.org.il/place/wieruszow]
Table of Contents translated to English for The Weiruszow Memorial Book
[https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Wieruszow/Wieruszow.html]
Jewish Records Indexing – Poland
[https://jri-poland.org/town/wieruszow.htm]
International Jewish Cemetery Project
[https://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/poland/wieruszow.html]
Yiddish Book Center - Yizkor Book Online in Hebrew
[https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yizkor-books/yzk-nybc...]
Kultura Polish Site on the Jewish cemetery of Wieruszow
[http://www.kultura.lodz.pl/en/poi/3273132]
B&F Compendium of Jewish Genealogy Archival Records
[https://bloodandfrogs.com/compendium/poland/lodz/wieruszow]
US Holocaust Memorial Museum – Oral History Interview with Jacob Widawski, born May 21, 1921 in Wieruszow, Poland
[https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn43542]
Hebrew profile from Yad Vashem - International Institute for Holocaust Research
[https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/research/ghettos_encyclopedia/ghett...]
Blog related to the Viroshov Yitzkor Book
[https://zicharonot.com/tag/viroshov-yitzkor-book/]
Polish Facebook group called "In the footsteps of Wieruszów Jews"
[https://www.facebook.com/sladamiwieruszowskichzydow]
Video in Polish (captions can be translated into English) about the Jewish community of Wieruszow
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QM6XSI0IyQ]