Also known as:Kaminsk (in Yiddish)
BackgroundKamiensk is located approximately 59 kilometers or 37 miles south of Lodz. The earliest known Jewish community existed in the nineteenth century. The Jewish population in 1921 was 856. During World War II, the Jewish cemetery was destroyed. The Jewish community of Kamiensk was not reestablished. Other Jewish communities in the "Radomsk Region" were located in Belchatow, Brzeznica/Nowa Brzeznica, Gidle (Gidzel), Kleszczow, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Plawno, Przedborz, Radomsko, Rozprza, Sulmierzyce, Szczulkow-Podszwierk and Wloszczowa. Kaminsk: Life and Death of a Shtetl  Victor Breitburg, perhaps the sole living survivor born in Kamiensk, writes about his birthplace. |
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