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The purpose of this project is to identify and collect Jewish individuals who are connected to the town of Smigiel Schmeigel in Poland.
From the International Jewish Cemetery Project:
SMIGIEL: Wielkopolskie Alternate names: Śmigiel [Pol], Schmiegel [Ger]. 52°01' N, 16°32' E, 33 miles SSW of Poznań (Posen), 12 miles N of Leszno (Lissa). 1900 Jewish population: 13 (in 1921). This town in Kościan powiat, Greater Poland Voivodeship with 5,420 inhabitants in 2004. While part of the Prussian Province of Posen, the town was administered within Kreis Schmiegel.rnate names: Śmigiel [Pol], Schmiegel [Ger]. US Commission No. POCE000318 Alternate German name: Shmigiel. Town is in region Leszczynskie at 52º01' 6º32', 21 km from Leszno and 48 km from Poznan. Cemetery: ul. Stanislawa Skarzynskiego. Present town population is 5,000-25,000 with no Jews. Local: Burmistrz [Mayor] Jerzy Ciesla, ul. Kilinskiego 14, 64-0300 Smigiel, tel. 282 and Pella Blandyna, Urzad Miejski w Smiglu, Pl. Wojska Polskiego 6, 64-030 Smigiel, tel. 3-139, 353, 20-78-23. Regional: Ewa Piesiewicz, Panstwowy Urzad Ochrany Zabytkow w Lasznie, ul. Mickiewiczla 5, tel. 20-62-83. 1921 Jewish population was 13 (0.3%). Hejmann Kirzezunge lived here. The last known Conservative or Progressive/Reform Jewish burial was 29 June 1933. The unlandmarked, isolated, urban flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is entirely closed with a continuous masonry wall and partial fence with a new gate that locks belonging to the new users (a garden). The pre-WWII size was and now is 0.26 ha. No stones are visible. Removed stones are stored elsewhere by the municipality. The municipality owns the property used for agriculture. Adjacent property is residential. Rarely, private visitors stop. It was vandalized during World War II. There is no care. Within the limits of the cemetery are a pre-burial house and a gravedigger's house. No threats. Dariusz Czwodrak, ul. Lipowa 22 a/4, 67-400 Wschowa completed survey on 7 Nov 1991. He visited the site for this survey on 6 Nov 1991 and interviewed Pella Blandyna. "I visited the Lutheran graveyard where Dr Darius Czwojdrak, who has read them to the best of his ability, laid out the Jewish headstones in that cemetery. Contact the Lezno Museum, which is a credit to Dr Czwojdrak. He could give the names he discovered. I would like to find some money to embed the laid out stones with a surround and some gravel. This would ensure that the grass does not overgrow them and that they will remain a visible memorial for the children of the town. I had no response from the Lauder Foundation or the Historical Institute in Warsaw about this. Source: Susanne Dyke at '; document.write( ); document.write( addy_text1810 ); document.write( '<\/a>' ); //--> [4 Aug 2001] Last Updated on Thursday, 09 July 2009 13:38. Accessed Augusr 10, 2017
52°01' N 16°32' E 190 mi W of Warszawa. A small town in Poland that was the birthplace of 48 Jewish citizens who were lost in the Holocaust. Most had moved to larger cities by the 1930's, many to Berlin.
From Yad Vashem here is a list of the 48 people:
Becker, Sally 1887 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Bermann, Marta 1875 Schmiegel, Poland List of murdered Jew ... Murdered
Friedlaender, Hedwig 1868 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Goldschmidt, Georg 1891 Berlin, Germany Page of Testimony Murdered
Goldschmidt, Selma Zelma 1885 Berlin, Germany Page of Testimony Murdered
Goldschmidt, Georg 1892 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Goldschmidt, Selma 1885 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Hannach, Hulda 1864 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Heimann, Siegfried 1880 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Heinrich, Ella 1896 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Jacobsohn, Elsa 1881 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Jacobsohn, Georg 1879 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Jacobsohn, Johannes 1890 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
John, Georg 1879 Lodz, Poland Page of Testimony Murdered
Kirschner, Kaethe 1898 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Krieger, Paula 1888 Berlin, Germany Page of Testimony Murdered
Landsberg, Minna 1863 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Ledermann, Rachel 1863 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Loewenstein, Elsa 1882 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Meyer, Siegfried 1865 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Michaelis, Clara 1867 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Muscat, Arthur 1880 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Nelhans, Pauline 1882 Berlin, Germany Page of Testimony Murdered
Nelhans, Pauline 1882 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Neumann, Jenny 1875 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Rosenberg, Kaethe 1904 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Rosenberg, Sophie 1863 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Rosenkranz, Louise 1884 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Schelasnitzky*, Hanna 1880 Nordenburg, Germany Page of Testimony Murdered
Schmuklertschik, Emma 1877 Schmiegel, Poland List of murdered Jew ... Murdered
Schrammeck, Berta 1880 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Schwarz, Isidor 1876 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Schwarz, Hermann 1881 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Teller, Rosa Roza 1879 Berlin, Germany Page of Testimony Murdered
Teller, Rosalie 1878 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Theodor, Hugo 1889 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Zickel, Max 1863 Dresden, Germany List of persecuted p ... Murdered
Zickel, Max Israel 1863 Dresden, Germany List of persecuted p ... Murdered
Blumenfeld, Else 1887 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Hepner, Kurt 1878 Dresden, Germany List of persecuted p ... Murdered
Taub, Felix 1884 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Taub, Felix Feliks 1884 Berlin, Germany Page of Testimony Murdered
Katz, Karoline 1888 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Muskat, Max 1886 Berlin, Germany Page of Testimony Murdered
Muskat, Martin 1886 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Muskat, Max 1887 Berlin, Germany List of deportation ... Murdered
Muskat, Max 1887 Berlin Schoeneberg, Germany List of persecuted p ... Muskat, Rudolf 1891 Dresden, Germany List of persecuted p ... Murdered
Many of these people have Pages of Testimony, a rich source of genealogical information.
In JewishGen Family Finder there are 10 people interested in this town.
Placed in the County of Kosten along with the towns of Kosten, Kriewen and Czempin. Source: Luft, The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835, Revised Edition, 2004. Schmeigel had 44 individuals who became citizens, Kriewen had 5, Czempin had 39 and Kosten had 20.
Details and photographs from the Kirkuty site are available here: http://www.kirkuty.xip.pl/smigiel.htm
Data on individuals in Schmeigel is available online in local family book of German Jewish records here:
https://www.online-ofb.de/schmiegel/ This site is part of www.genealogy.net .