Leżajsk, Poland

Leżajsk is included in the Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (KRRG). Shtetlach were interwoven together like a tapestry and the Jewish people of neighboring shtetlach linked by marriages, trade and marketing. They shared schools, cemeteries, kosher butchers, bakers and more. Smaller shtetlach registered their birth, marriages and death in a nearby larger shtetl. One should research the neighboring area as well as an individual shtetl. The KRRG web site has resources and information that is relevant to many shtetlach. To search for family links and learn more about neighboring shtetlach, please visit the Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (KRRG).

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Variant shtetl names: Lizhensk, Lezansk, Lezhaysk, Lzhansk

KRRG Coordinator: Susana Leistner Bloch

Administrative District: Łańcut

Judicial / Tax District (Subdistrict): Leżajsk

Location:

Latitude-Longitude: 50°16' - 22°25' Altitude: 590 ft. feet 28.7 miles E of Kolbuszowa 23.7 miles NE of Rzeszów 16.0 miles NNE of Łańcut

Jewish Population before the Holocaust: 1.575

History and Geography:

• In present day Poland Leżajsk is in the Podkarpackie Województwo [ Province ] (formerly Rzeszowskie Woj.).  Leżajsk is the seat of the Leźajski Powiat [ County ] which includes the following Gminas [ Rural Administrative Districts ] : Grodzisko Dolne,  Kuryłówka,  Nowa Sarzyna.

•  Leżajsk is also the seat of the Gmina [ Rural Administrative District ] which includes the city and commune of : Leżajsk and the following villages / communities:   Biedaczów,  Brzóza Królewska, Chałupki Debniańskie, Dębno , Giedlarowa, Gwizdow, Hucisko, Piskorowice, Przychojec, Rzuchów, Stare Miasto, Wierzawice

• Leżajsk Jewish Cemetery: The Lezajsk Jewish Cemetery was established in the XVII century, on the outskirts of the southern-eastern part of the town, near the Leżajsk market. It can be reached  through a small market place to Górna Street with this cemetery.

• Lizhensk; sefer zikaron le-kedoshei Lizhensk she-nispu be-shoat ha-natsim -  Memorial Book of the Martyrs of Leżajsk who Perished in the Holocaust . Submitted to the Yizkor Book Project by KRRG member Sarah Janine Katz. 
• Leżajsk Yizkor Book The entire Leżajsk Yizkor Book was scanned and all the pages can be viewed in the original format.  With Permission of The New York Public Library, Dorot Jewish Division.

From the Yizkor Book:

• Lizhensk as I remember it  by Lydia Trintzer-Izrael 
• My cradle Lizhensk by Elimelech Honig-Ronen 
• Lizhensk: The synagogue, people and way of life by Yehoshua Rotman 
• Lizhensk of Rabbi Elimelech by Shalom Yam  

Maps:

• View Leżajsk via Multimap
• JewishGen Resource Mapping showing Leżajsk

Holocaust:

    Necrology:

• Names of the Martyrs (Necrology)  

    Lizhensk During The Holocaust – from the Yizkor Book: 

• The beginning of the end  by Shaul Spatz  

• Children in the days of the ghetto   by Genya Spiegel (Basik Tova) 

• Nine years old in a difficult generation  by Lotzia Rotman-Greenspan 

• Among gentiles who sought to kill me  by Hanya Kappel

• A girl who survived  by Chaya Stelzer (daughter of Feivel) 

• I was a Christian girl in Berlin  by Lotzia Rotman  

• I visited Lizhensk ghetto  by Roth 

• Jews and Judaism in the Diaspora by Leah Braude

• What I saw and heard in Lizhensk  as told by a gentile friend of Minia Rubinfeld 

• Lizhensk – Russia – Lizhensk  by M. N. Yaroth 

• Alone in the forests  by Moshe Hoff 

• I, death and Meirsh Steinbach   by Matityahu Spergel  

• Murder in Lizhensk and Grodzisk  by B. Zaltz  

• The last days in Lizhensk  by Yitzak Tantzman  

• The Ups and Downs of Fate (Memorial Candles to Two Friends: Riva Roitman and Henia Spergel)  by M. Spergel 

    Lizhensk After The Holocaust – from the Yizkor Book: 

• I visited Lizhensk in 1950  by Matityahu Spergel  

• I visited our city in 1959  by David Steinbach 

    Righteous Gentiles – from the Yizkor Book:

• A gentile to be remembered for good  by Yehezkel Potascher 

• One of the Righteous Gentiles  by Berta Zaltz 

Resources:

• List of Refugees from Leżajsk in Russia in 1944

• Lezansker Young Men’s Benevolent Society Burials in Mt. Zion Cemetery

• The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.  Type in the name of your town.
• Jewish Records Indexing - Poland and JewishGen “All Poland Database”.This is a multiple database search facility, The “All Poland Database” enables researchers to find indices to vital and  related records from the independent JRI-Poland database as  well as entries from other databases.  The combined databases have more than 6.75 million entries for individuals living in areas now or formerly in Poland.  The database is a work in progress, and new entries are being added regularly.  http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Poland/ 

• Logan J. Kleinwaks Galicia Genealogy Indexer

Gesher Galicia Resources:

• All Galicia Database
• Gesher Galicia Cadastral Map Room

Photos & Postcards:

• Postcard of Leżajsk
• Photos of Lezajsk taken in 1940 and 1941 during the German Occupation

• How I emigrated to Palestine  by Eliezer Lieblich

The People of Lizhensk: 

    The People of Leżajsk- from the Yizkor Book:

• The Jews of Lizhensk  by Prof. Josef Depovski

• Fishel Spergel  by M.H. 

• David Miller  by Dov Ausubel  

• Abraham Reichenthal  by Abish Reichenthal  

• Dov (Ber) Strauch  by Dov Engelberg 

    Rabbis - from the Yizkor Book:

• Rabbi Elimelech - from the Yevreiska Encyclopaedia     

• Rabbi Elimelech – The son of Elazar Lipman of Lizhensk - from the Hebrew Encyclopaedia  

• Chapters on Rabbi Elimelech – from Martin Buber‘s Gog Umagog  

• A section of the Prayer of Rebbe Elimelich of Holy Blessed Memory    

• Rabbi Elimelech The Leader  by Rabbi Dovidel of Lelow  

• Rabbis and Hassidic Rebbes  by Dovid Steinbach 

• Rabbi Yechezkel Landau  from his relatives.  

    Chassidim - from the Yizkor Book:

• The Hassidism of Belz - by Dovid Steinbach 

    Memorable People - from the Yizkor book:

• R. Koppel  by Yechiel Schneid

• R. Y. L. Silberberg  by Avraham Moshe Silberberg

• They were three  by Abish Reichenthal 

• Something about Haninah Glicksman  by Meltza Shindelheim

• My grandfather Rabbi Asher Shochet   by Leah Braude 

• R. Yoel Moshe Landau  from the survivors of his family  

• From Jerusalem to Siberia  by Elimelech Ronen (Honig)

• R. Yosef Ausubel  by Dov Ausubel  

    Memories, reminiscences, and anecdotes - from the Yizkor book:

• Friends: Giza and Mina  by  Ethel Pesse Dominitz   

• Jesus of Nazereth with a hat  by Matityahu Spergel  

• There were two brothers  by Matityahu Spergel 

    Institutions and Organizations - from the Yizkor book:

• People and their activities  by Nathan Feit   

• Zionism in Lizhensk  by Chaim Dov Hammer  

• Youth movement  by Tziporah Karmi (Steinbach) 

• Education in Lizhensk  by Dov Ausubel  

    After Emigration:

• Leżajsk Landsmanshaftn and Congregations (Including a list of burial society plots in the New York metropolitan area)

    Lizhenskers who made Allyah [Immigration to Israel]:

• Moshe Greisman  by Mina Miller 

• Mordechai Arum  by Dvora Arum  

• Mordechai Feldman from the newspaper Davar 

• Aryeh Reichenthal  by Shlomo Tamir

• R. Asher Zelig Miller by Dov A. 

• R. Moshe Naftali (Monia) Teicher  by N. Engelberg

• Chayatche Diamant  by Mina

• District Office of Lezajsk
  Region Podkarpacie
  ul. Kopernika 8
  37-300 Lezajsk

• tel. 0-17 242-86-01

• fax 0-17 242-83-21

• e-mail: ug.lezajsk@post.pl

•  Website: http://www.starostwo.lezajsk.pl/
   

• Lezajsk Municipal Office
  District Lezajski
  Region Podkarpacie
  ul. Opalinskiego 2
  37-300 Lezajsk

• tel. 0-17 242-86-00

• fax 0-17 242-61-31