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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 the Rebbe of the Warsaw Ghetto. During the wartime all the Jewish population was deported and murdered.
Grodisk has changed provinces a number of times:
- Until the 18th century Kingdom of Poland, Rawa Land, Rawa Province
- 1795-1807 Prussia
- 1807-1815 Duchy of Warsaw
- 1815-1918 Russia (Kingdom of Poland), Błonie County
- 1918-1939 Poland, Warsaw Province, Błonie County with the seat in Grodzisk
- 1939-1945 Germany (The Third Reich), The General Government (German: Generalgouvernement), Warsaw District, Błonie County with the seat in Grodzisk
- 1945-1998 Warsaw Province
- From 1999 Mazowsze Province, Grodzisk County
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grodzisk_Mazowiecki
Jewish settlement in Grodzisk Mazowiecki dates from the 16th century. Aleksander Kaczorowski, Grodzisk Mazowiecki journalist and essayist, wrote: "In the mid-nineteenth century, the town had a few thousand inhabitants, nearly 80% of them Jewish. To this day, residents of the neighboring village of Grodzisk called this Jewish town and grodziszc residents - Jews ". Father Mikołaj Bojanek in his study entitled "The Church and Parish in Grodzisk in 1750-1769 gave the Jews permission to build the first synagogue. In 1765, 157 Jews lived there and at the end of the 19th century, 1,681 out of 1,928. In 1860, they built a large synagogue and in 1901 the beit midrash. In the 19th century, tzaddik Elimelech moved there, part of the famous family of the Kozienice Magid. After occupation of the city by the German army in 1939, Jews were subjected to painful repression. In December 1940, the ghetto was created in which local Jews and those displaced from other locations including Warthegau were imprisoned. Liquidation of the ghetto took place on February 13, 1941. its inhabitants were deported to Warsaw, from where they later went to Treblinka. [May 2009]
Source: http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/poland/grodzisk-mazowieck...
Information from the Jewish Records Project posted here as a placeholder. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ JRI-PL Digest for Saturday, November 28, 2015.
1. Major new Grodzisk Mazowiecki records extraction project launched
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Subject: Major new Grodzisk Mazowiecki records extraction project launched From: "expert@familytreeexpert.com" <expert@familytreeexpert.com> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 09:26:43 -0500 (EST) X-Message-Number: 1
Long-time Grodzisk Mazowiecki (Grodzisk) and area researchers will be pleased to learn that Jewish Records Indexing - Poland has undertaken a huge new "Phase 3" project to fully extract all Grodzisk birth, marriage and death records from 1826 to 1907. To carry out this major initiative, we also acquired scans (digital images) of all surviving Grodzisk records in the Grodzisk Mazowiecki branch of the Polish State Archives.
As Town Leader, it would be my pleasure to send you a full description of the project and explain how you will be able to obtain these extracts as well as digital images of your family records before they go online.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Gary Palgon Town Leader, Grodzisk Mazowiecki Phase 3 extraction project