Welcome to Nowy Sącz, Poland!
( Neu Sandec ~ Neu Sandez ~ Nowy Sancz ~ Zanz
~ Sanz ~ Tsants(z) ~ Sants ~ Zantz ~ Noyzantz ~ Novyj Sanc )
נײ - סאנץ
~ סאנץ
~founded in 1292~
(Stary Sącz, Poland~ Click
Here!)
Nowy Sącz – Neu Sandez – c.1915
Nowy Sącz Rynek Today
Latitude 49°38´, Longitude 20°43´ ~ 181.1 miles S of Warsaw
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Join
our “Nowy Sącz Group” now about 240 strong!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sacz
A wonderful place to ask questions!
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Video Tour ~ Jewish Cemetery of Nowy Sącz!
Description: On September 12, 2005, Mr. Bernard Schwerd together with his son,Yecheal (Neil) Schwerd and nephew, Moshe(Michael)Schwerd visited the Jewish cemetery in Sanz,(Nowy Sanz)Poland, resting place of the holy Divrei Chaim (R'Chaim Halberstam and his family). The trip was part of a tour through various towns in Galicia (Poland). At the cemetery gate they were greeted by Mr. Yaakov Miller*, a Holocaust survivor who resided in Sweden. Mr. Miller would come to Tsanz each summer to look after this cemetery. He gave the Schwerd Family a guided tour of the cemetery. 20 min 1 sec (This film Courtesy of Neil Schwerd) *Sadly, Mr. Miller passed away in December of 2010.
“Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victim Names”
This database went online on Nov. 22, 2004, and
sadly, there are over 1,000 Holocaust Victims listed from Nowy Sącz (some names may be repeated)
~ Click Here to Do Your Own
Search ~
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Markus
(Mordechai) Lustig (Kanengisser)
“A Sanzer’s Life Story” (in his own
words)
**** Click Here
to read this incredible life story ****
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Source: Debbie Raff, while on a bus passing through Nowy Sacz in the summer of
1998. I never had the opportunity to see
the town.
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A List of 4,232 Jewish
Residents of Nowy Sacz – Compiled by William Leibner
(Source abbreviations are located at the top of the list – file is downloadable))
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“A Purim in the Region of Sants”
(a detailed account of one boisterous Purim celebration)
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“1891 Galician Business Directory”
201 names/occupations of Nowy Sącz residents!!
“1929 Polish Business Directory”
Nowy Sącz - Related Links ~
- Traces of the Past ~
Tourist Attractions~History~Jewish Cemetery~
Chasidim~ Rabbi Chaim Halberstam
- Nowy Sacz - Cmentaz zydowski (Jewish Cemetery) (Polish)
- Nowy Sącz Area
Synagogues (Polish)
- Karski: How One Man Tried
to Stop the Holocaust by Wood
and Jankowski (excerpt of this book online)
- Polish Legions Celebrate (Nowy Sącz) ~
August 12, 1929
- Nowy Sacz – Welcome to my
Hometown (English) Personal website of
Roman Majcher
- Nowy Sacz Skansen –
Sadecki Ethnographic Park (Polish)
- Nowy Sącz (Polish)
some nice town photos
- Wyzsza Szkola
Biznesu/National-Louis University
(Polish)
- District Museum of Nowy
Sącz (history of museum)
- Traditional Polish Dress
for Nowy Sącz/Stary Sącz Region
- Dust of our Brother’s
Blood (Book Review) [author from Nowy Sącz area] May
18, 1941
- Columbia County, Georgia
(USA) – Sister City
- Weather in Nowy Sącz
Today
Stary Sącz
- Related Links ~
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Touring Stary
Sącz (Polish) includes history, local attractions & some
nice photos
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Stary Sącz (Town & Municipality)
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Stary Sącz (Miasto i Gmina) includes town
Video in Polish (top right)
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Photos – Stary
Sącz - May - 2007
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Early Music Festival (Polish)
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“Stary Sacz Society” -
Surnames - Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, New York
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Today’s Weather
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Satellite View via Google Maps -
Zoom in to See Map Overlay
Other –Genealogy- Related Links ~
- Polish Jewish History
- Jewish Historical Institute – (Zydowski Instytut Historyczny) (Warsaw)
- Jewish Tombstone Symbols in Poland
- Yad Vashem – a searchable Database of Shoah Victims' Names/Pages of Testimony
- Yad Vashem – a searchable Online Photo Archives
- Polish Maps (historical)
- Routes to Roots Foundation, Inc. - Searchable Database of Archive Documents in Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Lithuania
- Cyndi’s List Jewish
- 32nd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy July 15-18, 2012 --- Paris, France
And don't neglect the wonderful treasures at JewishGen ~
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Find Others with Roots in Nowy
Sącz -- thru the JewishGen
Family Finder
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JRI – Poland -- a searchable
database of over 4 million 19th century Jewish vital records from more than 500 Polish towns!
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Gesher Galicia / Galicia SIG– how to subscribe
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Manifest Markings – A Guide to Interpreting Manifest List
Annotations by Marian Smith, Historian, INS
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Want Information on Other Shtetls? -- go to ShtetLinks
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Bibliography: Polish-Jewish
Genealogical Research – a list of some
incredible resources
Gesher
Galicia is hosted by JewishGen at: http://www.jewishgen.org/galicia
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