Welcome to Yaslo

This web page is devoted to what was once the shtetl Yaslo, in Galicia. The town is located today in Southern Poland (latitude 4945, longitude 2128). 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 July 2008. Copyright © 2000. Since August 2002, you are visitor:

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Jaslo: Yesterday and Today, Photos and Stories

• The Jewish Community in Old Jaslo --a booklet from 1992, translated by Monika Hendry. Probably the best description of life in the shtetl that you'll ever read! Includes:
  • 1939 street map
  • an alphabetized listing of Jewish Homes and an index to all surnames
  • The Synagogue, and a wonderful photograph of the interior!
• Memoirs of Jaslo 1939-1960 --from a book published in polish in 2000; by the "Association of Lovers of Jaslo and the Region", translated by Monika Hendry.
• Jaslo, The Cemetery -- various articles, photographs and even a list of tombstones!!
• Postcards dating back to the early 1900s--donated by Monika Hendry
• Yaslo, The Birth and Death of A Jewish Community in Poland - from its Beginnings to the Holocaust, by Dr. Jakub Herzig -- added August 2004
• The Yizkor Book is available on JewishGen! It was translated into English by Bill Leibner from Jerusalem
• Slownik Geograficzny article from late 1880s William Hoffman translated this wonderful old listing and placed it on the Polish Genealogy Society of Texas site

Historical and Genealogical Sources for Jaslo

• Genealogical Records Available Today - from The Jewish Community of Jaslo
• The 1891 Galician Business Directory - Records from Jaslo
• The 1929 Business Directory for Jaslo - Translated by Monika Hendry 6/04
• Other Sites to Visit
  • A Special Group for People with Roots in Galicia -- Gesher Galicia
  • The Best Site for Jewish Genealogical Research -- //www.JewishGen.org
  • A Bibliography for Polish Genealogical Research
  • Want Information on Other Shtetls? --just click to go to the worldwide directory of towns at JewishGen

Family Information available through this Web Page

• The Siegfried Family
• Want to put your Jaslo tree here?? Just send me your Frysztak tree!
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Jaslo 1891 Business Directory:

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

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Genealogical Records Available Today

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Genealogical Records from Miriam Weiner's Web Site and Book

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:

1. Birth, Marriage and Death records for 1890-1937 in the USC in Jaslo
2. Kahal records 1915/1927 and Voter Lists 1920/1927 and Recruit Lists 1915-1918 can be found in the Przemysl Archives.
3. Land Records 1785-8 and 1819-20 can be found in the Lvov Archives.
4. Census of 1946 and Holocaust records 1945-6 and 1949 can be found in the AP at Skolyszyn
5. Kahal Records from 1940-3 are in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw

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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The Siegfried Family of Jaslo

The family included:
- 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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