Location: on Mapquest

                 on Google Maps

                 on tourism map indicating distance to other locations in Poland

19th-century map: 1882 Map of Posen Province

                                Federation of East European  Societies

                                (Ostrowo on lower right, east of Kalisz)

                       

A History of the Jewish Community of Ostrowo, by Aaron Freimann, 1896.

In fall 2008, a small team of Ostrowo researchers translated this informative 20-page monograph:

• English translation

• Transcription of the German text in Roman characters

Images: Photos, postcards, coins, etc.

Other Research

The Jewish Gen Locality Page for Ostrów Wielkopolski contains data and links, including the Family Finder (JGFF) and the All-Poland Database (with JRI Poland).

The German Special Interest Group (GerSIG) includes areas that were once German-speaking, including the Prussian province of Posen where  Ostrowo was located.

YIVO has an extensive archive of Ostrowo documents. For details, including a brief history of the community, see:

Guide to the Records of the Ostrowo Jewish Community Council 1824-1919

The LDS Library has microfilmed the Register of Jewish families in Ostrowo, 1836-1838. Film # 1271464. Microfilm details.

A group of Ostrow citizens has published a book of essays on the Jewish community, in Polish, German and English: Studia Iudaica Ostroviensia (2007). [Enter your location to find the nearest library.]

The Polish Wikipedia has a large entry on Ostrów Wielkopolski (in Polish), including a full page on the history and architecture of the synagogue (in Polish). There is a shorter entry on the city in the English Wikipedia.

The City of Ostrów Wielkopolski site (English version) is quite informative, although the only mention of the former Jewish presence is a brief paragraph in the what-to-see section.

The Digital Library of Wielkopolska website has several Directories (1912, 1927 and 1938). To view the files, do a search for: Ostrow Addressbuch. (These are djvu files that require a viewer or plug-in)

1912 City Directory: Adressbuch_1912

According to Freimann (see links above), the Ostrowo community had strong ties to the Kalisz (Kalisch) community. See the Kalisz articles on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum site.

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