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