Details: This is the English translation of the memorial book Gombin, The Life and Destruction of a Jewish Town in Poland (Gombin, Dos Lebn un Umkum fun a Yidish Shtetl in Poyln), published in 1969 by the Gombiner Landsmanschaft in America. The book is a unique source of information about the vanished Jewish community of Gombin. Its narratives, testimonies and photographs offer a vivid overview of the history, religious and secular institutions, leading personalities, social and cultural activities, and everyday life of the Gombin Jews before the Second World War. They also convey the horrors of their persecution, suffering and annihilation after Nazi Germany’s occupation of Poland. As an important addition to the original version, the book includes a new appendix with individual information about more than two thousand Gombiners who are known to have perished during the Shoah. This publication by the Yizkor- Books-in-Print Project of JewishGen Inc. provides the English-speaking community a primary resource for researchers and for individuals seeking information about the ancestral towns of their families. Jewish Population in 1900: 2,539 Alternate names: Gąbin [Polish], Gombin [Yiddish, German, Russian], Gambin Gombin, Poland is located at 52°24’ N 19°44’ E and 55 miles W of Warszawa   Nearby Jewish Communities: Sanniki 7 miles SE Plock 10 miles N Gostynin 11 miles WNW Kiernozia 11 miles SSE Żychlin 11 miles SSW Bodzanow 14 miles ENE Bielsk 19 miles N Kutno 19 miles SW Sobota 20 miles S Wyszogrod 20 miles E

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