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This project seeks to include descendants from all those Jewish families who once lived in Vilkaviskis. The town is now in Lithuania, but in the interwar years was in Poland. If your family's roots are here, please add their profiles. There is an excellent article by Joseph Rosin on the history of the town on the JewishGen KehilaLink here: . In addition, note the wonderful resource of Jewish Vi...
List of Polish Ghetto Projects on Geni:* Będzin Ghetto * Bialystok Ghetto * Bilgoraj Ghetto * Bochnia Ghetto * Brest Ghetto * Częstochowa Ghetto * Dabrowa Ghetto * Grodno Ghetto * Jaworow Ghetto * Kraków Ghetto
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 Soko...
Hajnówka (Belarusian: Гайнаўка, Hajnaŭka; Ukrainian: Гайнівка, Hainivka; Yiddish: האַדזשנאָװקאַ, Hachnovka) is a town and a powiat seat in north-eastern Poland (Podlaskie Voivodeship) with 21,442 inhabitants (2014).[1] It is the capital of Hajnówka County. The town is also notable for its proximity to the Białowieża Forest, the biggest primaeval forest in Europe. Through Hajnówka flows the riv...
I would like to learn more about the Trybus family tree in my genealogy and help many others out in their researching. Anyone can feel free to post questions, start discussions, join this page, and help people out with their family tree. My main goal with this page is to help everyone with their trees (specifically people who have Trybus ancestry) and to get information from what other people k...
The town of Bilgoraj is the principal town of its county in Lublin province. As of 2009 its population was 27.341. It is located on Bilgoraj Plateau, on the Lada River (right tributary of the Tanew River), in the vicinity of Roztoczanski National Park. On August 2, 1919 the province of Lublin consisting of 19 districts was established, including Bilgoraj district with the principal town being B...
1918 Influenza Pandemic - Poland: Survivors="Please add to this project any profiles of those who suffered but survived the' Spanish Flu' pandemic of 1918 To participate in any project- you do need to first be a collaborator - so please join the project using the request link under "actions" at the top right of the page. Visit Geni Wikitext, Unicode and images which gives a great deal of assist...
This project seeks to collect all Jewish families from the town of Gdów, Poland. Gdów on Wikipedia JewishGen Locality Page Gdów Virtual Shtetl
Radom Ghetto was a World War II ghetto set up in March 1941 by Nazi Germany in the city of Radom in occupied Poland, for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of the local Polish Jews. Liquidation of the ghetto began in August 1942 and ended in July 1944, with approximately 30,000–32,000 victims sent to their deaths in cattle trucks at the Treblinka extermination camp.* האנציקלופדיה של הג...
The President of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, shorter form: Prezydent RP) is the Polish head of state. His or her rights and obligations are determined in the Constitution of Poland.The President of the Republic of Poland is the head of state, the supreme representative of Poland in the international arena. He has executive authority. He has a right to di...
The place name "Dąbrowa", derived from the Polish word dąb (oak), denotes an "oak grove", as the territory of the original village is believed to be covered by oak forests back in the early days of its existence. Since in the 19th century the settlement grew to be an important coal mining center, its name was supplemented by the adjective "Górnicza" ("mining") in 1919.During World War II, on Se...
I am trying to find information on my Great Grandfather Ojzer Sztrauch. HIs surname was spelled several different ways. In all of my ancestry research, he is the only person whose death I cannot find a single piece of information about. Not one record from all of the holocaust archives, nothing. I'm looking for any information I can get about the family and/or town of Nowy Korczyn, Busko County...
Following the Nazi–Soviet Invasion of Poland, a murderous Action T4 euthanasia program was carried out by the Nazi Germans in a local psychiatric hospital. In December 1939, German authorities established a Jewish ghetto in Otwock, in order to confine its Jewish population for the purpose of persecution and exploitation. The Ghetto was liquidated between August and September 19, 1942, when 75% ...
The Aleksander chasidic movement flourished in Poland from 1880 until it was decimated by Nazi Germany during World War II. Now nearly extinct, the Aleksander Hasidim (also written as Alexander) were the second largest Hasidic group in pre-Holocaust Poland, centered in the small village of Alexander (or in Polish, Aleksandrów Łódzki) near Łódź. Today Aleksander chasidim live in communities in I...
1918 Influenza Pandemic - Poland: Fatalities="Please add to this project any profiles of those who perished in the' Spanish Flu' pandemic of 1918 To participate in any project- you do need to first be a collaborator - so please join the project using the request link under "actions" at the top right of the page. Visit Geni Wikitext, Unicode and images which gives a great deal of assistance. See...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Bircza, Poland, also known as Berch, Bircha, Birtch. Bircza Online! Virtual Shtetl Gesher Galicia - Bircza JewishGen - Bircza == Background ==Bircza [%CB%88birt%CD%A1%CA%82a] (Ukrainian: Бірча) is a village in Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative ...
This project brings together all the Wapinski families of Poland and their relations. We seek to use traditional paper records and genetic genealogy to explore and identify possible connections between all the families surnamed Wapinski (and related spellings) in this region.Most of the Wapinski families identified so far were originally living within or in the area of the city of Lomza . Speci...
The Przemysl Ghetto is situated on the San River, in the former Lwow district of eastern Galicia. Today it is part of Podkarpackie voivodship. Before WW2 about 24,000 Jews lived in the town. The Germans entered the town for the first time on 15 September 1939. Repressions and humiliations, aimed at the Jewish population, started almost immediately. Around 20,000 Jews still lived in Przemysl at ...
This project is one of the many town projects that have been created here on Geni.This town was known as Dereczyn, Poland between World War I and World War II.
The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military operation by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Germany invaded Poland from the west. Subsequent military operations lasted for the following 20 days and ended on 6 October 1939 with the two-way division and annexation of the entire territory of...
THE “COMPLEX RIESE”Extensive construction work on a number of underground shelters and tunnels took place in the Owl Mountains (a part of the Giant Mountains) between 1943 and 1945. The exact purpose of these facilities remains unclear even today. German sources suggest that they were supposed to be turned into a huge underground shelter covering more than 35 square kilometres, with one of Adol...
Calling all Tutaks - let's find out how we are all related!Earliest known ancestor: Jan Tutak 1796-1878
This Ghetto contained Jews from Dereczyn, Halinka and Kolonia--Sinaiska.The Ghetto was liquidated by the SS Death Squads - Einsatzgruppen on July 24, 1942 or 10 day of Av 5702.>>>>-------------------------->>> El Moley Rachamim Holocaust Prayer
Prymas Polski – tytuł przysługujący urzędującym arcybiskupom gnieźnieńskim od 1417, podkreślający ich pierwszeństwo w polskim episkopacie.=LIST OF PRIMATES OF POLAND:=Mikołaj Trąba 1417 – 1422Wojciech Jastrzębiec 1423 – 1436Wincenty Kot z Dębna 1436 – 1448 Władysław Oporowski 1449 – 1453 Jan Sprowski 1453 – 1464 Jan Gruszczyński 1464 – 1473 Jakub z Sienna 1474 – 1480 Zbigniew Oleśnicki 1481 – 1...
Prime Ministers of the Republic of Poland (1918-1939): '0. Ignacy Daszyński 14 listopada 1918-17 listopada 1918 1. Jędrzej Moraczewski 18 listopada 1918 16 stycznia 1919 2. Ignacy Jan Paderewski 18 stycznia 1919 27 listopada 1919 3. Leopold Skulski 13 grudnia 1919 9 czerwca 1920 4. Wincenty Witos nie utworzył rządu 10 czerwca 1920 23 czerwca 1920 5. Władysław Grabski 27 czerwca 1920 2...