I write about my fathers family. I didn't find them mentioned in yizkor book of Jaslo. If you have any information please click on my name to email me.
The parents of my father (my grandparents) were Chaim Silber
( 1.8.77 Bogumilovice -7.11.1952 Israel) and Chaja
(Rosenfeld)(8.2.1877 Debica-22.7.1961 Israel). Both survived
the holocaust in Samarkand and went after to Israel. They
lived in Jaslo, where my father Aaron and his siblings were
born. They lived in ulica Kosciuszki 19, in the house of Mozes
Eder. My grandfather had a wood trade and they bought the wood
boards from the the woodmill of Goldfluss.
The family photo has: First row from left to right is Wolf ,
above him standing Yitzhak. The next my grandmother Chaja
(Rosenfeld) and my grandfather Chaim Silber. Sitting on his
knees the little boy is Salomon. Standing in front my father
Aaron. The next woman who is standing its Rachel (married
Reifer) and the little girl who sitting Gitka. 
My father was Aaron Silber, his siblings were:
My father had a long story He escaped from the train, going to Belzec and was with the partisans in the wood . Only he and two others survived. After the holocaust he went to Vienna, where I was born. His girl friend from Jaslo, Ilona Beldengrin (I have my name in honour of her!) was in the same train to Belzec like him and died in Belzec. The photo at the left is Aaron and Ilona. She was also not mentioned in yizkor book or kehila links. Her father was a kosher butcher at this time, Shlomo our Nathan Beldengrin?? I don't know, which one fits. I only know, he died in Russia. I think, she must probably be born in Jaslo between 1912 and 1914, because my father was born 1912 in Jaslo. Both were at the tennis club, makabi,I think, because they liked to play tennis . I don't know, if there is any information left of Makabi?
Wolf Silber, the brother of my father and his wife Esther (Freund) and his kids Sara and Moshe died in Belzec. They had a 8 month old baby which they had to leave and hoping someone will take her. This was Maria Vasitinskaya, who was adopted from a polish couple. I found her real name, Riwka Silber (in Yad Vashem on a foto, given from my aunt Rachel to them). Sheindle Cohen wrote about her in your kehilalink pages. This Maria Riwka is my first cousin ( DNA through my heritage ! ) and living now in Omsk, Russia. We had great reunion this year in Israel.The tragedy with her was, that my aunt Gitka came after the holocaust back to Jaslo and found her in Krosno. But this couple gave her never back to my aunt. Otherwise,my aunt had taken her to Israel,I believe. After my aunt's visit, they vanished to Russian, so she was never found again. I remembering, that my father tried to find a child of his brother Wolf, but he failed. So 76 years later, we found us through our DNA. So late, so sad, she had a poor life.
In 1996 there was a interview in Vienna from the holocaust foundation from Washington from Steven Spielberg with my father. There ,you can find the whole interview of his life in german language.
In the moment I am searching, 
to get some
informations about Ilona Beldengrin, the fiance of my father;
but I got stuck. I have only this foto for her with my father.
I wanted so much, to write a remembering paper for her in Yad
Vashem. Only Adam Kahane (I wrote with him, he is one of the
last from Jaslo, who are still living) remembers her and my
father. But that's all, alas. Not who is the father of her or
something like that.
The next photo is my father and his friends.. 
.but i dont know the name of his
friends.
So, if you have questions to me, you can write me anytime.
Many greetings from Vienna, Ilona Kotys, Vienna
Dec 2018
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It sure is nice to have friends all over the world....in April i got the following note from Monka Hendry:
Editors Note: we've combined many of the postcards with the 1929 business directory below....showing the Jaslo scenes along with the directory entries....if you are seeking a special surname, don't forget to use the search function...just click on Edit on the top line, then Find, then type in your surname!!
The marketplace (Rynek), North Eastern corner,
Urzad Miasta on the right (Miasta street) 
This postcard is the C.K. Gymnasium on Czackiego Street 
The Wizytek Monastery on a hill overlooking
Jaslo's railway station...and it is beautiful! Klasztor P.P.
Wizytek "en gorge" 
Thanks Monika!!
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Editors note: JewishGen has put the actual images of the directory on the web, but they are difficult and time consuming to read. After getting many requests, Monika translated the directories and sent them to me for posting; I have combined them in the table below (phyllis kramer, October 2013)
JASLO: a town located 233 m above the sea level. The seat of the county and regional court, the court of appeal in Cracow, 10,391 inhabitants. Railway lines Jaslo-Rzeszow, Stroze-Nowy Zagorz.
The state and community authorities: police
station, town council, treasury office, revenue office,
mining office, land record office, road management office,
water resources office, county land office, school
inspectorate, magistrate.
Churches and schools: 2 catholic churches, one
synagogue, 2 monasteries: Franciszkanow and Wizytek. High
school.
Below, an excellent photograph of the ancient
synagogue. 
Institutions: Polish Bank branch, County Health
office.
Trade unions and associations: industrialists'
assoc., catholic merchants and industrialists' assoc.,
branch of the central mining union, regional agricultural
society, branch of landowners association, branch of the
trade union for glass industry workers, branch of the
trade union of chemical industry workers, branch of the
trade union for construction industry workers.
Guilds: furriers, tailors, shoemakers.
Major fairs: 7 January, 3 February, 23 April, 21
September, 2 November, 1 December.
Industries: oil and gas, cement, mills, sawmills,
tanneries, factories: juice, vinegar, soap, candles, wax,
shoe polish, bone products, bag, broom.
[and now, the listings]
This wonderful street scene is from a Postcard of
the Hotel Krakowski: 
Postcard #3 is Kasa Oszczednosciowa on
Kosciuszki Street 
This postcard shows Czackiego Street early
in the century....alongside the western side
of the park; the last house (with the tower)
and the red house still stand 
Postcard # 4 is Sokola Street with Club
Sokol on the left. 
The marketplace (Rynek),
North Eastern corner, Urzad Miasta on the
right (Miasta street)
Monika also translated the business directory for the surrounding villages:
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The Polish National Digital Archives has posted wonderful photographs from some of our shtetls in the 1920s and 1930s. You can search for your shtetl by going to http://www.audiovis.nac.gov.pl/obraz/; put the town name (as it is spelled today) in the box on the upper left hand corner. Each photograph is labeled and dated.
Our friend Monika, who was born in Poland, has translated some of the captions, but you can do this too, by using poltran at http://www.audiovis.nac.gov.pl/obraz/. Just cut and paste the caption into the search box.
The first photograph is Krosno's main
square in 1932 
Next is a photograph in Jaslo, showing the
laying of the cornerstone for a Talmudic
school in 1934. In the photograph: Cadik
from Bobowa, Ben Zion Halberstam, leader
of the kehilla, and Mr. Spirer. 
This 1929 photograph shows Ben Zion
Halberstam with his secretaries during his
stay at a spa in Truskawiec. 
and this last photograph shows Krosno
town leaders Greeting the President of the
Polish Republic, Ignacy Moscickiego, in
March of 1927. PDAKrosno2 
Up until 2019, Phyllis Kramer (OBM) developed and maintained this KahilaLink. Phyllis did a wonderful job documenting and sharing information about this shtetl. Starting in July 2021 Jeff Alexander is trying to fill Phyllis’ shoes. Please contactJeff Alexander for anything related to this shtetl.
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