JewishGen, Inc. makes no representations relating to the accuracy ofthe translation. The reader may wish to check with the unique materialfor verification. In 1824, there 560 Jews lived in the ile żyją ptaki city, while in 1870, the entire Jewish kehilla had 933 members. At that point, the neighborhood employed two rabbis and had a synagogue, a Hasidic kloyz, a bathhouse, a poorhouse, and a cemetery.

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Not only did he refuse but he despatched again a nasty letter to the Kehillah leaders. Finally, the city gave up on the Shapiros and turned to someone from the Ropczyce Dynasty. As it was told within the previous chapter, when Rabbi Elazar was elected Rabbi of Lancut, Rabbi Israel Dov Gelernter became Rabbi of Strzyzow. However, when he found out that Rabbi Elazar was not pleased together with his substitute, he left Strzyzow in the midst of the evening.

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In his speech he warned the people to wake up from apathy and immigrate to Eretz Israel legally, if attainable or illegally because Europe was not secure anymore. Who may have imagined at the moment that the catastrophe was so shut and the end of European Jewry so imminent? On September 1, 1939 struggle broke out and on tenth September, the Germans occupied Strzyzow. And the destruction of the Jewish neighborhood of Strzyzow, Poland and the rest of Europe began. More and more youth groups had been organized under the auspices of the Zionist group.

Two or three houses into the market place, there was the alley that led to the Beit HaMidrash and the kloyz of the rabbi from Sassov. Further on, on the identical aspect, was the shul with a lush green garden in entrance of it. I sadly bear in mind, O   ffspring with dad and mom killed by the world’s worst assassin; W   while all of them, actually all, perished. However, dad and mom were not able to cease life’s progress. The Jewish youth noticed that Poland held no future for them.

They wanted to be the builders of the Jewish nation, of the Jewish future, but they did not stay to achieve their goal. They have been torn away from their fathers and moms, from their folks and were thrown into one grave. Now, our shtetl, like a thousand different cities and towns in Poland and usually in Europe, does not exist anymore. However, to us, this shtetl was expensive because it was ours. We had been born, brought up and lived by way of sad and pleased events here.