WYSZOGROD
Wyszogrod (Yid.: Vishegrod), town in Warszawa Province, east central Poland,
Coordinates: 5223 2012
56.3 kilometers WNW of Warsaw.
Wyszogrod
Plock District, Warsaw Province, Poland
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Year |
Population |
Jews |
^% |
| 1808 |
3190 |
2883 |
90% |
| 1827 |
3387 |
2458 |
73% |
| 1857 |
3820 |
2841 |
74% |
| 1897 |
4160 |
2735 |
66% |
| 1921 |
4297 |
2465 |
57% |
Source: Pinkad Hakehilot Encyclopaedia of Jwish Communities, Poland, Vol. IV, Warsaw and Its Region, Yad Vashem, Jerusaelm 1989, pp. 195-199 - The article will be translated soon and posted in this web site and also at JewishGen, Yizkor Books database.
Extracts from Beth Ha'Tefutsoth' database:
A Jewish settlement in Wyszogrod is mentioned for the first time in 1422, when Jews received authorization from Prince Ziemowitz IV (C. 1352 - 1426) to engage in commerce and crafts and to establish their own institutions.
During the 16th century, Jews established workshops for weaving.
In the second half of the 18th century, a synagogue was erected, built of stone in the late baroque style according to plans by the famous architect David Frydlander. It was destroyed by the Nazis in 1939.
In 1765 the 684 Jews paid the poll tax and 1,410 Jews paid the same tax in the surrounding villages.
From the mid-19th century, many Jews moved from Wyszogrod to Plock and Warsaw.
During 1920s, eight of the 12 members of the Municipal Council were Jews.
Because of the town's location on Poland's principal waterway, the Vistula River, Jews there engaged in interurban trade. Their position deteriorated, however, on the eve of World War II as a result of anti-Semitic pressure and boycott propaganda.
N. Sokolov was born in Wyszogrod.
The last rabbis to hold office were David Borenstein (until 1922) and Naphtali Spivak, both whom perished in the Holocaust.
At the outbreak of WWII, there were about 2,700 Jews in Wyszogrod.
On Nov. 19, 1942, the Jewish community was liquidated when the Jews were expelled to Czerwinsk and Nowy Dwor, and from there deported to the Treblinka death camp.
After the war, the Jewish Community was not reconstructed.
The Samurai of Vishigrod: The Notebooks of Jacob Marateck
The Samurai of Vishogrod and the Very Small Pogrom
Bryna Kranzler: http://xsnerg-accidentalanarchist.blogspot.com/
H. Rabin: Wyszogrod; Sefer Zikaron: Vishogrod, Memorial Book,
Vishogrod; Dedicated to the Memory of the Vishogrod Martyrs Who Died by the
Hands of the Nazis and Their Henchmen 1939-1945
Editor: Haim Rabin
Assistant Editor: A. Felz
Editorial Board: N. Daicz, B. Gutman née Zawierucha, VA, Felz H., H. Levine, P. Melineck, M. Walfish
Published by The Former Residents of Vishogrod Organisation, Jerusalem 1971, 316 pages, Yiddish, Hebrew, English
ספר זיכרון
לקדושי וישוגרוד שנספו בשואת הנאצים 1945-1939
העורך: ח. רבין, עורך משנה א. פלז חברי המערכת: נ.ל. דייטש, מ. וולפיש, ב. זאוויערוכה (גוטמן), ח. לוין, פ. מלניק, א. פופובסקי
ארגון יוצאי וישוגרוד בישראל ובתפוצות, תל אביב תשל"א 1971
The English Part
Submitted by Lois Jolson
List of the Jewish Martyrs from Wyszogrod, Victims of the Nazi Holocaust 1939-45
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Submitted by Lois Jolson and edited by Ada Holtzman
Email: Lois.Jolson "at" firstdata.com (to avoid spam).
The Whole Book
in the NYPL Web Site
The Family of ZAWIERUCHA from WYSZOGRÓD
Yukel Zawierucha, Wyszogrod
WYSZOGROD Jewish Records Indexing - message 1
WYSZOGROD Jewish Records Indexing - message 2
First posted in May 2001!
Last updated November 20th, 2009
