The main town in the area is Krosno; there is much more information available about this area (which includes nearby Jasienica, Dormaradz, Brzozow and Jaslo), on the Krosno area page.
Korczyna is today a town in southern Poland that was once home to many of our Jewish
ancestors.
Korczyna was in Galicia, an Imperial Province of Austria Hungary from 1776
to 1919, then was returned to a re-created Poland at the end of World War I.
Korczyna is located at latitude 49° 43´ longitude 21° 49´, about 3miles NorthEast of
Krosno, 43 miles west of Przemysl, and 178 miles south,southeast of Warsaw. Note the map on the right.
I hope you will find all this interesting and helpful. Please contact me if you have photos
or information to add, or any questions. As with any genealogical research, this is an evolving project.
Phyllis Kramer , New York City and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
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According to Miriam Wiener's Routes to Roots Foundation web site (http://www.rtrfoundation.org), the following records are available:
The Aliyah passports are available on the Jewish Records Indexing--Project (JRI-P). Go to
http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/jriplweb.htm and search for the town by name. Although Korczyna town records are not available here, there are over 300 records of folks from the town who lived elsewhere.
The following is a birth certificate from Korczyna dated 1907, for the birth in 1890 of Joseph Beer SPINDLER. To interpret the Polish and German Headings, go to JRI-P and download their file of formats at http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/galicia/GalicianVitalRecords_Titles_Nov2002.pdf.
I believe the birth certificate reads
You can contact the SPINDLER researcher by
clicking here.
Let me suggest a good method to search on JRI-P for indexes to vital records. What you are seeking are records not just from your own town, but from towns in the area, as marriages were most often arranged between neighboring towns. Here are the steps:
Photographs of the townThe photographs were taken by Ruben Weiser......Ruben's great grandfather, Itzjak Elovitz (a descendent of Rabbi Elimelej of Lizensjk) was born in Zborov, Slovakia, and moved early in life to Krosno. There Itzjak married Hana Pessel, who was born in Korczyna.
For more information, please contact
Ruben Weiser in Argentina.
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Korczyna: Photographs from Tomasz Okoniewski
In February of 2004, I received a request from Tomasz for scanned photographs from our Yizkor book,
because, as he said: "it was proper to bring closer [to] the occupants this fragment of history".
Tomacz wanted to add the scanned photographs to his site.
Although in Polish, and difficult for some of us to read, his site is devoted to Korczyna and contains wonderful photographs.
Click here to see his site at www.korczyna.prv.pl
Although we were unable to get the photographs requested, Tomasz sent us the following and gave us permission to use them here: First the Jews of Korczyna:
Jews in Korczyna in 1930:
And some modern day photographs of the town:
A postcard showing the rynec (town square) in 1910 appears below:
And finally, a corner of Korczyna:
For more information, please contact
Tomasz Okoniewski in Poland.
Although it is 70 years since i spent some of my time in Domaradz, I cannot forget the good time i had there.
I lived with my family in Korczyna. Every year for the Passover holidays the whole family packed up and hired
a horse and wagon with a man to take us to Domaradz. We could not wait to get there to see our grandparents,
uncles, aunts and cousins.
I remember the beautiful landscape, the river, woods and hills surrounding the area. For us
children it was an especially exciting trip. The first thing when we arrived we ran to the stable
to see the cow and goat. Then we played in the back of the house on the wagons. This was a big thrill.
I still remember the smell of the stable, which seemed to me like a good perfume.
Our grandparets did not know what to do with us out of happiness. They were elated. They were
poor people struggling for a living; they worked hard just to feed themselves. How can you forget this?
They were very proud people. What a hobbible death. My grandfather was shot for protecting his children from
separating from him. Then they shot each one of them with a pistol (per witnesses). Why? They did not bother anybody. They
were honest people. The murderous german S.S. How could they live with themselves. They were shot
on the cemetery in Jasienice Rosielne and are buried there. Over 1000 people were shot at that time.
I was informed that the city has put up a marker plate on that spot. Not only the Jews from Domaradz died there, also Jews
from the surrounding villages. My cousin Froim was a witness to this horrible tragedy. For the
last 58 years i live with my family in the U.S.A. Life here is good. But i cannot foget the beautiful time
i spent in Domaradz. My memory of the family is alwys in front of my eyes. In 1984 we visited Domaradz but
I could not find any trace of the place they lived.
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Korczyna & Domaradz: From the Eyes of A Child
by David Zwirn
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