Kazmierz Krawczyk (my 5th great grandfather) died March 16, 1823

Kazmierz Krawczyk (my 5th great grandfather) was a 75 year old widower when he died. He died March 16, 1823 at 1:00 in the morning. He was born in about 1748, His two sons, Wojciech and Bartłomiej, 30, went to report the death in Tomaszow Lubelski. They were both peasants. Kazmierz lived with his son Wojciech and Wojciech’s wife Rozalia when died in their house #10 in Łaszczówka. Kazmierz probably moved in with him some time after 1814 when his wife Rozalia (my 5x great grandmother) died in house #5, in the same village. Both his wife and his daughter-in-law were named Rozalia. Łaszczówka is a village about one mile east of Tomaszów Lubelski. It has about 1,000 residents. Family members lived there for several generations of Krawczyks. Image credit: http://niezalezna.pl/94988-samuel-laszcz-i-modna-fryzura-szlachty

Laszczow Used to Have Many Jewish Inhabitants

My Mother’s DNA included 4% Jewish which means it could be anywhere between 1 and 6%. If there is a relative or more that was Jewish, I have not yet found that out. There is a list of over a hundred Jewish households from this time period that lived in Laszczow and I do not recognize any of the names as surnames in our family. http://chelm.freeyellow.com/laszczow.html ***** Laszczow had a large Jewish community, They made a living in trade of grain and craft and lived in the Market Square. There was a Jewish printing house. The Jewish population increased over the 19th century from 826 people in 1827 to 1,621 ipeople n 1897. At that point, Jews were over 90% of the population. In the 20th century, Laszcow was mainly Jewish. The area suffered many times from attacks from various sources. A Jewish surgeon, Alfrons Brawstedt opened a 30 bed hospital that treated men wounded in the November Uprising (1830-1831.) In 1920, the Russians attacked the town, harming and killing many people. Many fled and those that remained lived in poverty. In 1939 the Nazis occupied the town and over the next several years sent the inhabitants to slave labor and death camps. Few survived. On Christmas Eve, 1942, 75 Poles were murdered in retaliation for an earlier confrontation between several villagers and four armed German police officers. In 1944 the Ukranian Insurgent Army burnt down the village. ***** Added clarification from Andrzej Dubiel: Laszczow and Laszczowka are two different places. The first one is bigger and is it 20 km. east of Tomaszow. The second one is a village near Tomaszow --about 3km away. http://iajgscemetery.org/eastern-europe/poland/laszczow https://sztetl.org.pl/en/towns/l/713-laszczow/99-history/137619-history-of-community https://www.historiaregionu.org/posty-autorstwa-slawomira-litkowca?lang=pl article about 1942 75 Poles killed photo: Bible_scroll_template.svg: BáthoryPéter (talk)Star_of_David.svg: Zscout370P_blank.svg: Booyabazookaderivative work: Beao, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Location: Laszczow

The Krawczyk family is from Łaszczówka. I can trace three generations of Krawczyks in Laszczow up until Katarzyna married Lukasz Grabek in 1823 and moved to Majdan Gorny. Her parents (Antoni Krawczyk and Dorota Kozyra) and grandparents (Kazmierez Krawczyk and Rozalia nee Kobak) were from Łaszczów. Kazmierez and Rozalia were born in the mid 1700’s. They all worked as peasant farmers. There is a Łaszczówka and a Łaszczówka-Kolonia and I think they lived in the one that is not the colony,but I am not sure. They are not that far apart. Łaszczówka is a village about one mile east of Tomaszów Lubelski in Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship (area administered by a governor.) It has about 1,000 residents. It was a town from the mid 1500s until 1870 and it regained its status as a town in 2010. It is the seat of the gmina (community) called Gmina Łaszczów. From a record on the Kaszucki side, I believe there was an estate there that produced tobacco. Here are images of a mansion there that is in ruins. Map and pictures https://www.mapofpoland.net/Laszczow,map.html Here are images of a mansion there that is in ruins. . https://www.3deling.com/portfolio-item/laszczow/ https://www.historiaregionu.org/posty-autorstwa-slawomira-litkowca?lang=pl horses in front of the manor house in Laszczow Photo: By Qqerim - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2212011

Laszczow: 3D Scan of a Mansion and Youtube Video

This one is 3D scans of a 16th century mansion house in Laszczow: https://www.3deling.com/portfolio-item/laszczow/ This short video is fun to watch to see what Łaszczówka looks like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFJE-2E10fY Without knowing Polish though, we will miss a lot that this beautiful reporter highlights. I did learn that the village has a volunteer fire department, a school, library and a football (soccer) club. The "Piekiełko" Geological Reserve is highlighted. The boulders are thought to be a place of pre-Slavic worship but it is unknown how it was made or who did it. The area is called “wilderness.” The Reserve dates from 1962 in an attempt to protect the boulders (which are made of sandstone) and are unique in the area and ramparts. Also seen is a shrine of the visitation of the Mother of God. Check out the Facebook page for active links for these resources. https://www.facebook.com/Polish-Family-History-102520648303884

Antoni Krawczyk (4x great grandfather) Died Feb. 4, 1861

Antoni Krawczyk died in Laszczowka on 4 February, 1861. He was 60 years old when he passed away. He was the son of Kazimierz Krawczyk and Rozalia nee Kubak. He left behind his second wife Barbara nee Probala. Dorota nee Lokaj (or Kozyra), his first wife (my 4x great grandmother) died 22 March 1824 at age 45. He married Barbara three months later on 22 May 1824. This record was translated for me May 19, 2020 when I was still learning the process and getting a sense of the family tree. For more about Laszczowka, check out the information at Polish Family History at https://polishfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2020/11/location-aszczowka.html YouTube video of Laszczowka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ontNZEalE&fbclid=IwAR2bLPfFU5p3ZLPbEjksy6BKPJt2FBJBFR-7Kot8yeIY_tYcVdx9OEa06KA Image from Facebook page: Historia Regionu Tomaszow Lubelski Belz Rawa Ruska.

Lukasz Grabek Marries Katarzyna Krawczyk Nov 21 1823

On 21st November 1823, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Lukasz Grabek and Katarzyna Krawczyk were wed in Tomaszow Lubelskie. They were my 3rd great grandparents. They were from my grandfather Anthony Raczkiewicz’s father’s side--part of the family that lived in small villages outside of the city to the northeast and worked as peasant farmers. Lukasz Grabek was 25 years old and working as a peasant farmer in Majdan Górny. His father, Walenty Grabek, had died when Lukasz was about 14 years old. His mother Teresa née Waławender remarried when Lukasz was about 15 years old. When he got married, Lukasz had been living with his mother and step father Grzegorz Lebiedowski, also a peasant farmer. The bride, Katarzyna, 20, was from Łaszczówka, about four and a half miles away. This village is outside of the city to the southeast. She was the daughter of Antoni Krawczyk and Dorota née Lokaj, peasant farmers, residing in village of Łaszczówka, The banns were announced on 9th and 16th of November, 1823. .The witnesses- Marcin Walawender, 55, Jan Garbul ,30, Józef Litwin, 54 and Bartłomiej Krawczyk, 36. They were all peasant farmers. The first two were from Majdan Górny, the groom’s village and the other two were from Łaszczówka, the bride’s village.