Translation of
Published by the JewishGen Press
Original Yizkor Book Edited by: A. Shulman
part of Yizkor Books Project of JewishGen, Inc.
Published in New York, 1969
Translation Project Coordinators: Leon Zamosc, Ada Holtzman z”l
Layout: Jonathan Wind
Cover Design: Jan Fine
Name Indexing: Jonathan Wind
Hard Cover, 8.5” by 11”, 450 pages with original photographs.
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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
Sanniki 7 miles SE List price: Available from JewishGen for $32 |
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