Dedicated to the memory of
my great-grandparents, Icek Majer Galas and Dworja Chonych of
Jezów,
to to their ancestors and
descendants; to my grandfather Abram Michal Galas,
and to my mother, Fayga
Galas, and the worlds that she lost.
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Genealogical and Historical Research
in and about Jezów
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To find other researchers searching
for family from Jezów, go to Jewishgen’s Family
Finder here
and then do a search for Jezów.
- Here are the names that appear in
records indexed by JRI-Poland:
- At
Yad Vashem in Israel and in the Jewish
Historical Institute in Warsaw, there are six
testimonies of Holocaust survivors who were born in
Jezow. They are:
- David Milich, born in 1932; in Hebrew, record
group 0.3
- Rosa Rachel Braunfeld Levkovicz, born in 1926;
regarding her experiences in the Chrzanow Ghetto
and in Sosnowiec and Gabersdor labor camps; in
Hebrew; file number 11326
- Golda Flaum Segal, born in 1929; regarding her
experiences in the Rawa Mazowiecki Ghetto and
labor in Germany in a Siemens factory disguised as
a Polish woman; in Hebrew; file number 11160
- Cwia Shtiglitz Wachetl, born in 1933; regarding
her experiences as a child in the Rawa Mazowiecki
GHetto and various hiding places including the
forest; in Hebrew; file 12313
- Jona Moshe Brandt, born in 1924; regarding his
experiences in the Jezow Ghetto; a bunker in the
forest; and hidden by a farmer in the village; in
Hebrew; record group 0.3
- Cypra Galas Rubenstein Rafeli; born in 1908;
regarding her experiences in Bialystok, SIberia,
and Bukara; in Polish; file # 1555
- At Yad Vashem and in the Jewish
Historical Institute, there is also a list of Jews
originally from Jezow who resided in Wroclaw and
Strzegom in March 23, 1947; record group M.54; file
number JM 10005.
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Some records are now available
online at the
PSA website. *
- To obtain records that are more recent, you must
write to the town archivist of Jezów at Urzad Gminy
Jezów, ul. Kwiatowa 1, 95-047 Jezów, Poland. It
is strongly encouraged that you write in Polish.
You may need to demonstrate your relationship to the
people whose records you request and to show a
“material interest” in those records. Polish
privacy laws can be diffcult and frustrating to
maneuver.
Researchers
who do not speak Polish are are strongly advised to have
translators and/or guides accompany them.
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*To view
the record images, go to
http://www.szukajwarchiwach.pl/search?q=Jezow.
Click on EN so that you get help in English.
Find the type of record you want,
and click on the town name of interest, such as birth,
death, marriage.
You will see a list of descriptions of
groups of images, showing the type of record, range of
dates, and number of images available for each. This list
might extend over several pages (navigation at the bottom
center).
Click on the description of a group of
images for which the right-most column (the number of
images) is not 0. Then click the "Digital copies" or
"Skany" tab at the top to see thumbnail images, which
might extend over several pages.
To enlarge a thumbnail image, click it
to see a medium-size version. While viewing a medium-size
image, you can click on the right or left side of the
image (an arrow icon will appear under your cursor) to
display the next or previous medium-size image. Click the
rectangle icon in the bottom right of a medium-size image
to see the full-size version (which might not fit entirely
on your screen, so click and drag the image with your
mouse to reveal off-screen sections).
While viewing
a full-size image, you can click the links just above the
image, on the right or left, to display the next or
previous full-size image. A download link is at the bottom
center, below the image.
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Compiled
by Deborah H Long
Updated
2022
Copyright © 2010-2022 Deborah
H Long
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The
town of Jezów has a website at www.jezow.pl/
The
mailing address for information is
Urzad
Gminy Jezów
ul.
Kwiatowa 195-047
Jezów, Poland
Jezow
coat of arms
Thanks
to Jeff Rozenthal for this photo taken in 2015.
City Hall in Jezow.
Photo thanks to Jeff Rozenthal,
2015.
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