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This web page is devoted to what was once the shtetl Yaslo, in Galicia. Many of
our ancestors lived there. The town is located today in 
Southern Poland (latitude 4945, longitude 2128).
Important: If you are interested in the area, there is much more area
information on the
Krosno Area page. The Yaslo Shtetlinks page was created in October 2000 by
Phyllis Kramer, and updated
November 2009. Copyright © 2000. Since August 2002, you are visitor:
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The 1891 Galician Business Directory contains a host of listings for Jaslo. You can access all the Polish Databases on JewishGen by clicking on Poland on JewishGen (but don't forget to return here after you are finished). Click here: The JewishGen Polish Databases
The following list of current Galician records was taken from the wonderful guidebook
"Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories" by Miriam Weiner:
Jaslo, which was until recently in Krosno Province, is now in Podkarpackie Province:
You can find this list of records and other information on Miriam Weiner's Web Site, Routes to Roots, www.Rtrfoundation.org.
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Natan Siegfried (age 65) and Regina Ressler-Siegfried (age 63) were the parents of nine children. They lived at 10 Kazimierza Wielkiego, Jaslo Poland. At the Belzec Nazi Death Camp, they were annihilated along with other members of their family that included: two sons, two daughters, three daughters-in-law and three grandchildren. Fishel ("Phil") Siegfried, their eldest son, had emigrated to the United States around 1930.
The family included:
The Polish National Digital Archives has posted wonderful photographs from some of our shtetls in the 1920s and 1930s. You can search for your shtetl by going to http://www.audiovis.nac.gov.pl/obraz/; put the town name (as it is spelled today) in the box on the upper left hand corner. Each photograph is labeled and dated.
Our friend Monika, who was born in Poland, has translated some of the captions, but you can do this too, by using poltran at http://www.audiovis.nac.gov.pl/obraz/. Just cut and paste the caption into the search box.
The first photograph is Krosno's main square in 1932
and this last photograph shows Krosno town leaders Greeting the President of the Polish Republic, Ignacy Moscickiego, in March of 1927.
- Josef (age 39 years) , married
- Eva Siegfried-Schwinger (age 35 years), married to Efram Schwinger, child
Mundziu (age 5 years). Efram Schwinger survived the war in Siberia,
USSR. He later emigrated to the United States.
- Szymon (age 32 years), married to Rachela Kaplan, child Chial (age 5 years).
- Esther (age 22 years), unmarried
- Erna Schwinger-Siegfried (age 32), married to David Siegfried. He
survived the war in Siberia, USSR. He later emigrated to the United
States, living in Brooklyn, New York. In 1970, he emigrated to Israel
where he died in 1974.
- Mina Spirer-Siegfried (age 31years), married to Benjamin Siegfried, child
Gretusia (age 5 years). Benjamin Siegfried (tattoo # 161716), assumed his
mother's maiden name during the war and was thereafter known as Benjamin
Ressler. He survived by jumping off of the train that was transporting
members of the family to their death at Belzec. He was liberated from the
Mathausen concentration camp, sub-work camp, Ebensee following his
internment in nine different concentration Camps. He emigrated to the
United States where he remarried and fathered three children. He lived in
Brooklyn, New York until his death in 1978.
- Bertha Siegfried-Presser also survived the war in Siberia, USSR and is
currently living in Los Angeles, California near her only son.
- Emanuel Siegfried survived the war in Siberia, USSR. He is married and
lives in Staten Island, New York. He has two sons.
For additional information, please contact
Lillian Siegfried.
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Photographs from the Polish Digital Archives:
Next is a photograph in Jaslo, showing the laying of the cornerstone for a Talmudic school in 1934. In the photograph: Cadik from Bobowa, Ben Zion Halberstam, leader of the kehilla, and Mr. Spirer.
This 1929 photograph shows Ben Zion Halberstam with his secretaries during his stay at a spa in Truskawiec.
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