Sign at entrance to town of Zalosce
Photo courtesy of Israel Pickholz

Location

• 61 miles E of Lvov
• 19 miles NW of Ternopol
• 23 miles SE of Brody

• This area was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Galicia), later the eastern part of Poland and today Western Ukraine.
• Zalosce is very close to the town of   Podkamen   ( for which there is another shtetlinks page)
• 1895 description of Zalozce from Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego, Vol. XIV, pp. 354-5, Warsaw 1895. Translated by: Rose Szczech, Polish Genealogy Society of America (Mar 1998)

History

• Introduction
• Population figures -  1880-1931
• Inception of the Zalosce Jewish Community
• Zalosce's rabbinic leaders
• During the Holocaust

backup reference

Residents

• 1929 Zalosce Business directory Pictures etc.

  (Click on images for a larger version)

  Photo courtesy of Israel Pickholz	Photo courtesy of Israel Pickholz
  Zalosce plaque in the Chamber of the Holocaust (Martef Hashoah) on Mt. Zion, Jerusalem	Former Jewish Cemetery (Now just a field)

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  Related links

  • Israel Pickholz's trip to Zalosce, 5/2000
  • Gesher Galicia Home Page (SIG)
  • Polish Genealogy Society of America

  For further reading

  • Pinkas Kehillot (Poland B), published by Yad VaShem (in Hebrew)
  • Encyclopedia Judaica, volume Z
  • Simon Wiesenthal Museum of tolerance Multimedia Learning Center motlc.wiesenthal.com

  Contacts

  Please feel free to e-mail me about anything concerning Zalosce.  If you just want to talk about Zalosce, or if you have relatives from Zalosce, or you just want to verify that someone is maintaining this page.  Don't be shy, I want to hear from you !  I espeacially want to hear any stories that you might have about Zalosce, or see any photographs you might have.  So, send me an e-mail by clicking here.

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  Page compiled by Jim Stein.  (Please send comments, suggestions and new material.)

  Research and translation performed by Israel Pickholtz.

  Initial Creation:	19 July 1999
  major update:	18 September 2000
  last updated:	17 June 2010

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