Brzostek, Poland

Brzostek is included in the Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (KRRG). Shtetlach were interwoven together like a tapestry and the Jewish people of neighboring shtetlach linked by marriages, trade and marketing. They shared schools, cemeteries, kosher butchers, bakers and more. Smaller shtetlach registered their birth, marriages and death in a nearby larger shtetl. One should research the neighboring area as well as an individual shtetl. The KRRG web site has resources and information that is relevant to many shtetlach. To search for family links and learn more about neighboring shtetlach, please visit the Kolbuszowa Region Research Group (KRRG).

Holocaust:

• Yad Vashem Pages Testimony (POT). People whose Birth or Residence was Brzostek

   Righteous Gentiles:

• JANTON Jan, 31 from Wola Brzostecka, near Brzostek, Tarnow prov.
  Supplied food to the Fish family of six (6) persons. They were hiding in the woods: the mother Henia, 60, daughters Baily, 23, and her baby-girl, Rosa, 26, Ester, 28, and her son Moses, 30. All were killed on Dec. 8, 1942 and buried in a common grave in the woods. Janton was awarded posthumously the medal of "Righteous Among the Nations".

  This information appears on the "Polish Righteous" webpage compiled and edited by Ms. Anna Poray.  Used with permission.

  http://www.savingjews.org/index.htm

• Tomb of courageous Polish non-Jew is rededicated

Articles:

The People of Brzostek:

• The Grabkowitz Family of Brzostek

    Institutions and Organizations:

• Brzostek Zionist Youth Group

Photos & Postcards & Videos:

• A Town Called Brzostek (Video)

• Oral history interview with Adam Szus
• Photos of Brzostek. Submitted by Rosemary Eshel:

 

Links and Databases: When searching the links below, please remember that many towns in Poland have the same name. Make sure that the information you find refers to the shtetl you are researching.

Search for Brzostek. The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland and JewishGen "All Poland Database" is a multiple database search facility, which incorporates all of the following databases: JRI -Poland,  Yizkor Book Necrologies, JewishGen Family Finder )JGFF), JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR), 1891 Galicia Business Directory, 1929 Polish Business Directory, 1890-1891 New York Immigrants from Poland, Austria and Galicia, JG Discussion Group Archives, SIG Mailing List Archives and much much more. Search for any surname and /or town. the "Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation Eastern European Archival Database" to see where some vital records are.

Local Contact for Brzostek:

• Brzostek Municipal Office
  District Debicki
  Region Podkarpacie
  33-125 Brzostek

• tel. 0-14 683-01-11

• fax 0-14 683-01-11

• e-mail: ugbrzostek@tel.debica.pl

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