B&F: Jewish Genealogy and More - Navigating Jewish Genealogy
Description: Virtually Rebuilding Jewish Kańczuga
A story of several lists.
During the summer of 1944 the Soviet Union made inroads into liberating Poland from Nazi occupation, which would be mostly completed on January 17, 1945 with the liberation of Warsaw. Kańczuga was probably liberated by the end of July, 1944 and surviving Jews who had lived in Kańczuga before the war started to come out of hiding and return. On January 24, 1945 a list of the Jews living in the town was drawn up. While there were nearly a thousand Jews in Kańczuga before the war, the list indicates only 35 Je
That number would go down, not up, as the massacre during Passover in the town would occur about two months later, which included people from this list, and any Jews who survived that night probably did not stick around much longer. The names of those killed, and subsequently buried in a mass grave, are listed in my earlier post Memorial for Jews murdered in Kańczuga in 1942 & 1945 , although the list of names had at least one mistake which I discovered while putting this article together. That list was ass
B&F: Jewish Genealogy and More - Navigating Jewish Genealogy