Radom    Poland ראדום

Using This Website

If you are looking for a specific family name please click on the Names page above.  The first link will take you to a names index that links to information provided by other researchers on specific names as well as links at the top of the column to other sources such as photos that contain these names. You will also find separate names listings for immigrants on the Immigration page as well as a link on the Names page to a names listing in the Radom Book of Residents. As these are quite lengthy they were not included in the index.  Below are several links for search tools that allow you seach underlying files using Soundex.  A special thanks to Steve Morse for teaching me how to use his tool to create them. You will also have the ability to download many of these files directly  if you prefer. Search the 1823 Patronymic Database Search the 1813 Patronymic Database (includes professions and subsequent surnames) Search the Radom Immigration Database

What's New!

11/2011 Virtual Shtetl has added an excellent history of Radom to its site. 7/2011 Radom Today I frequently am contacted by those who plan to visit Radom and are interested in the Jewish sites.  On the Radom Today tab you will now find a summary of key Jewish sites and their locations.  There are some maps to their locations that you can access through either Radom Today or Maps. Cemetery A translation of the 72 newly discovered tombstones in the Radom cemetery Lapidarium is now available at the Cemetery tab.  It is referenced to the Radom Book of Residents thanks to the assistance of Moshe Michel Werber.  Both Werber and David Rosen assisted in the translation.  Jakub Mitek from the Resursa in Radom was kind enough to go to the cemetery in the middle of winter to take photographs and I had the opportunity to take a few more on my return visit in April 2011.  I've already heard from several people who have found family in those tombstones. My visit in 2011 was on the occasion of exhibiting my artwork on the former Jewish community at the Resursa.  Accompanying me was Dora Zaidenweber, a survivor who was 15 years old when the war broke out.  Dora shared her pre-war and ghetto period family photographs in the exhibit.  Her photos had survived in the shoes of her husband and her brother who grabbed photos and put them in their shoes prior to being sent to the camps.  The exhibition occurred as part of the Traces series, a focus on the former Jewish community that the Resursa has sponsored for the past two years.  Family Histories Also new on the Family Histories tab is an interview with Dora that recounts her life in Radom prior to the war and during the time of the ghetto and forced labor camp.  12/2010 Cemetery  & Radom Today Long hidden tombstones are unveiled in a new monument in the Radom cemetery.  Articles on the Cemetery Tab as well as a video on the Radom Today tab.  Family Histories A new memoir by Manny Steinberg with a youtube interview can be found on the family histories page. 7/2010 I just returned from Radom where I found new information that you'll find on several pages of this site.  Names Research documents from 1822/23 are available that link the patronymics with the new surnames which were taken. A list of Jewish names from 1813 are in a downloadable excel spreadsheet, together with profession.  As these are patronymics, the name they later assumed is also noted. Other documents list out the members of the synagogue in Radom and surrounding areas in 1884/86.  A list of surnames of photographs of former Radom residents is provided which can be located through the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. Archives Read II-Travel to Radom- Using the Radom Archives to learn what is available there. Even if you don't travel there, it may help you in ordering documents. Go to the Radom Library link.  There you will find a digital copy of the 1902 property owners list, Radom phonebooks and a host of other interesting documents. Pictures A group of Radom high school students has contributed photos of the former Jewish sites in Radom.  Photos are both recent and pre-war or during the war.They include photos of the ghetto, school and cemetery.  You can find links to all of them on the Pictures tab, but you will also find the old ghetto pictures on the Holocaust tab, the old cemetery pictures on the Cemetery tab and the current photos on the Radom Today tab. I've also added links to the Pictures tab and the Radom Today tab with photos that I took of specific addresses, the former synagogue site and the cemetery. Ads from the 1929 Radom Phonebook can now be found from the first Ads link on the Pictures tab.  You can also locate them from the Names Index, the first link on the Names tab. On the pictures tab you will see a link at the top to stills from a film of Jewish Radom which was done in 1937.  The quality is poor, but it does capture the people and institutions of the community in a rare pre-war snapshot.  The film runs 45 minutes and is easier to view via stills so I have attempted to capture many of the images. Links Go to Layers of the Onion and do a search on Radom.  This is my blog which talks about our experiences in Radom.

 

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Last updated November 12,2011