This page is sponsored by JewishGen (the website for Jewish Genealogy) and dedicated to our ancestors who lived there. On this site we have put whatever information we have collected about the town of Rymanow. We welcome your additions, comments and questions.
Rymanow today is in southern Poland but was in
Galicia, an Imperial Province (Kronland) of Austria-Hungary from 1776
to 1919 (see the map of Galicia on the left).
After World War I Galicia was returned to a re-created Poland.
Rymanow is located at latitude 49° 35´ longitude 21° 52´, 69 km west of Przemysl, 180 miles south of Warsaw.
I hope you will find all this interesting and helpful. Please contact me if you have information to add or any questions. As with any genealogical research, this is an evolving project.
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Our researcher in Poland has gathered quite a number of interesting observations about the
neighboring town of Rymanow. The Photographs were contributed by Deb Raff, who spent a recent
summer in the area and Michal Lorenc, who is working to
restore the cemetery.
History: The Jewish settlement in Rymanów is very old and important, but not very well-documented. A synagogue already existed in the 16th Century. In those times, the Jews of Rymanów traded wine imported from Hungary, and sold it among others at the fairs in Krosno. In 1765, approximately 1015 Jews lived in Rymanów (42.8% of the population). In the 19th Century,
Rymanów became one of the most important centers of theology and science in Galicia, thanks to
the famous Zaddik, Menachem Mendel (Mendele of Rymanów, died in 1815) who was the pupil of Elimelech of Lezajsk and Szmelke of Nikolsburg, and the 
teacher of Naftali of Ropszyce. At the end of the 19th Century, the Zionist movement became active in Rymanów. In 1921, 1412 Jews lived in Rymanów (40% of the population). Shortly after the Nazis occupied Rymanów in 1939, a part of the Jews were driven off to the zone occupied by the Soviets. In 1942 men between 14 and 25 years old were taken to the labor camp of Plaszów. The remaining Jews were deported to the extermination camp in Belzec.
The Synagogue is at the corner of Bieleckiego Street. Built in the 17th Century. Today it is in ruins. In the interior 4 columns and remains of frescoes have been preserved.
The Cemetery is on Slowackiego Street, 500 m. from the Market Place. The year of foundation is unknown. Size 2.64 hectares, surrounded by a whitehorn hedge. Approximately 200 gravestones have been preserved, of which approximately 100 in a good state. Recently, two new ohels were built on top of the hill in the cemetery: one in memory of the murdered Jews, the other in memory of the Zaddiks of Rymanów. Mr. Bialas (Grundwaldzka Street), who takes care of the cemetery, has keys to the monuments.
I z b a p a m i e c i (Memory Hall) , Bieleckiego Street 3. A collection of Jewish keepsakes.
The railway station is located in the village of Wróblik (wonderful old wooden Greek-Orthodox church) - 5 km from the center of Rymanów (carriage 3 K., seat in cab 40 h.). (...) The townlet has 3800 inhabitants (1800 Jews) and is located on a hill. Hotel and restaurant of Marceli Nadziakiewicz (rooms from 2.40 to 3.40 K.). The only remarkable thing in Rymanów is the baroque Church from 1780 with its high tower, founded by the Ossolinski family. In the chapel a monument in red marble and alabaster for castellan Jan Sieminski (died 1580) and his wife. Beside
this, Rymanów is known for its miracle-working rabbi and thus the crowds of Galician and Hungarian Jews, and for its unpredictable southern storms ...These gusts of
wind -- the so-called Rymanower winds -- are so strong that they overturn people and carriages.
First mention of and settlement in Rymanów is 1372-1378; located on the former trade route to Hungary. The local Jewish community belonged to the Kahal of Lesko. In the beginning of the 17th Century, the bishop of Przemysl convicted the Rymanów Jews of having profaned the Christian world. In the beginning of the 19th Century, the town became a center of Chassidism. Their seat in Rymanów had Menachem Mendel, pupil of Elimelech of Lezajsk, and after his death in 1815 his pupil, Cwi Hirsz Kohen (died 1846).
The first synagogue was mentioned as early as 1593 . In the same time period, the first cemetery was created.
The photographs were donated by Deb Raff; they were taken on a recent trip to the area.
The synagogue at Bieleckiego Street was built at the end of the 18th C. Although made of stone and brick, it has
steadily become dilapidated since the end of World War II.. It is located in the town's center, off the market place, on the slope of a hill. Only the walls of the main room with its square ground plan of 13.5 x 15 meters, the small round tower on the northwest corner and a part of the hall on the west side have been preserved. Inside, in the center of the main room, four beautifully ornamented brick
columns with Corinthian capitals, spanned by a flattened cupola with fragments of the vault. In the interior walls a row of arched
niches beneath the windows; the niche for the Aron ha-kodesh has been preserved as well as frescoes from the 20th C. The original
shape of the roof is unknown.
The following is the Jewish population, as it appeared in the long history of Rymanow:
1765 - 1015 Jews
1880 - 1391 Jews = 42.6% of the population
1900 - 1746 Jews = 46.9% of the population
1910 - 1739 Jews = 46% of the population
1921 - 1412 Jews = 39.9% of the population
In August, 1942, the ghetto was established. The majority of the imprisoned Jews were deported to the extermination camp of Belzec, others were murdered in the ghetto and in the woods of Barwinek.
The above was translated August, 2000, under the auspices of the Zmigrod Nowy Research Group
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The 1929 Business Directories for all the towns in galicia are available for viewing on JewishGen.
The following is an alphabetic list of the names in the Rymanow section:
Bart, I; Beer, E; Beil, M; Berger,E; Berglas, S; Bertenthal, B;Bialas,A; Boblik, T; Bodenstein; Braun, E; Bucher, J; Bucher, S.W;
Dankiewicz, W; Einhorn, J; Engelhardt,E; Englehart, J; Etra, B;
Fass, B; Feasel, S; Fischel and Wolf; Fluhr,R; Frankel, H; Frenzel, S.; Freund, E; Funfer, J.; Furst,L;
Glazer, S; Gold, S; Gotzler, O; Gunsberg, S;
Haladewicz,; Halpern, J; Hirschfeld, D ; Horowitz, M ;
Jakubowicz; Katz,S; Keler, M; Keller, C; Keller, N; Kilar,J; Konig, I;
Landau, M; Leckar, M; Leib, I ; Lejhowicz; Low, M;
Maj, A; Mandel, M; Mann, A; Mayer, J; Meller, M; Moszkowicz, D;
Perl, C; Pile, B; Pinkus, B; Pistrag, M; Pulnar, S;
Riff, R; Robinson, H; Romm, N; Rosen, S; Rottenberg, M;
Schachter,S; Schiff, M., Dr.; Schimmel, S; Schreiber,I ; Shamroth; Sherer, J; Silberman, J; Soltysik, J; Sponder, H; Stary, A; Stern, J; Stoff, M; Stutzel, I;
Teig, R; Tenenbaum, S.; Wald, J; Weinberger, Ch; Weitmann; Wimmer, Ch., Dr.; Wolf, A; Wolf, H; Wolf, M; Zywicki;
If you wish to view the directory, click here and key in the name of your town.
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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:
Rymanow, which was in Krosno, now in Podkarpackie Province:
The 1891 Galician Business Directory contains
110 listings for Rymanow:. Surnames include:
The 1891 Galician Business Directory contains many listings for
Rymanow. JewishGen has combined this database with many other databases
and you can access them with one query. Click here and then go to the
Polish Databases (but don't forget to return here after you are finished).
Key in your surname or key in the town (Rymanow) at:
The JewishGen Polish Databases
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Once the immigrants arrived in the United States, they often banded together for mutual
assistance purposes. It was also quite typical of the Landsmenshaften to own common cemetery
plots. The Rymanower Young Mens Benevolent Society owned two Landsmanshaft plots in the
New York City area. They are listed on the New York Jewish Genealogical website. The plots are
located at Mt. Hebron (path 32, gate 2) and Mt. Zion (Block 75, path 1).
(If you wish to view this website, to view the Landsmanshaften database,
click here and key in the name
of your town).
I do not believe that this society is still in existence. But, if you have any information about the society or a cemetery plot, please contact Phyllis Kramer.
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You can query the Mount Hebron Cemetery database either by surname or by
town name. Click on the link
below and enter Rymanow in the "society" box. You'll find there are 620 listings for
the Rymanower
Young Mens' Society. (Don't forget to click your back arrow, when you are
finished, so you can come back to this web page). The link is:
http://www.mounthebroncemetery.com/search.asp?type=interment
We received this message in October of 2004 from Jonathan Boyarin, and we
pass it along to you.
"I saw your page about Rymanow on the JewishGen website, and thought you'd
like to know that our synagogue, the Stanton Street Shul, has a historical
connection to the Bluzhower-Rymanow society, which may be a succesor to
the Rymanow landsmanshaft you refer to on the website.
then we got this note from Barbara Cohen Pollak: My son recently became the Rabbi
of the Stanton Street Shul on the Lower East Side. Talking to the 90-year-old
president, Bernie Sauerhaft, revealed that Rymanower YMB had merged at some point, along with several
other Galician landsmanschaft, into Stanton St. Hanging beside the Ner
Tamid is also one from the shul in Rynanow.
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Galler, Gerlich, Gold, Goldhammer
Katz, Kiler, Kindilik, Klausner, Kohn, Kuflik,
. .
NYC Rymanow Landsmanshaften
Mount Hebron Cemetery Records OnLine
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. .
NYC Bluzhower-Rymanow Society
Although the congregation is officially known as Congregation Anschei Brzezan,
the Bluzhower-Rymanow society paid "rent" for decades to join in the services,
and that relationship was never terminated, though at most one or two members
of that society are still at the shul. I believe as well that one of our
elder congregants either was born in Rymanow himself, or has parents from
Rymanow. You can learn more about the shul at its
website: www.stantonstreetshul.com, and are of course invited to visit us
if you are ever in New York. "
. .
My great grandfather Albert LAUTMANN was born in Rymanow in 1827. His parents ,were Israel and Esther Lautmann. The photograph at the right show Albert (1829-1902) and his wife Cypresse Ortner (1832-1917), who was born also in Galicia. Unfortunatly I don't anything about his life in Rymanow.
My great grandfather left Rymanow and his children were born in Brafla (Romania) where the family lived until 1880. Then they moved to Vienna in Austria and finally to Paris, France where
my grandfather Andre Lautmann was born. For more information, please contact
Pierre Lautmann, Vincenne, France
My grandfather, Abraham wilner emigrated in 1904. He was followed by his brothers Samuel
and Solomon, mother Chane & sister Rose. They all went to uncle Livish & Rose Wilner on East 3rd Street in
New York City. I've gone back as far as my great great grandfather, but I don't know if he had
brothers or sisters. I'd like to hear from other Wilner descendents.
Gary Wilner
Dear All,
My great-aunt Pesia SINGER lived in Rymanow, Poland before WW2 and took
care of my mother when she (as a young child) spent her summers
there. My grandfather Leon, Pesia's brother, had died of peritonitis
shortly before my mother was born.
My mother told me that Pesia lost her son and husband when they were
executed by the Nazis, but survived the war and subsequently moved to
America, however she knew no other details, and I have been unable to
track Pesia or any surviving family.
Some months ago, I was contacted by Malka Shacham Doron, whose mother
Frida Stary knew Pesia when they were young, and had met Pesia in
Israel after the Six Day War. Malka extracted details from her
mother's diary and sent me the following information:
Pesia Singer married Shmuel SHTOFF (from Sieniawa, Poland). They had two
children - a girl named Lucia born 1929 and a boy named Ideck
(Yehuda) who was born later. Shmuel became the chairman of the
kehilla in Rymanow.
After the Germans occupied Rymanow, Shmuel was asked by the Germans to give
them a list of young men from Rymanow to do physical labour. He
refused and was taken to the school yard at Bieletzky street (near
Bielecki's house) together with his son Ideck. Shmuel wrapped both
his son and himself with a tallit and both were shot to death. (March
1941). The perforated tallit still exists and is kept in (Ignacy)
Bielecki's Judaica collection in Rymanow.
Pesia buried some of her jewelry in the garden and took Lucia from home and
fled that night from Rymanow. She hid Lucia at the home of their
Christian maid in a small village near Krakow. Pesia turned a beggar,
and for almost three years she sat next to Kosciol Mariacki (St.
Mary's Basilica) in Krakow, where a priest allowed her to sleep
inside the church at night.
Towards the end of the war as the Russians were nearing, a Polish man from
Rymanow who came to Sunday mass at the church recognized her. She
immediately fled Krakow and went to the village where Lucia was and
fetched her. During the last battles between the Russians and the
Germans she arrived at Rymanow. She dug up the jewelry she had
hidden and later settled in Sanok.
Pesia was one of the first survivors and hosted many Jews from Rymanow
that arrived later from various concentration camps. Later, Pesia
immigrated to Canada with Lucia.
A harrowing story, which I felt I must share - Pesia was both brave and lucky. It gives me hope that 1) I might be able to track Pesia in Canada (where I live!); 2) Lucia might still be alive and 3) that some of those who survived the camps and visited Pesia in Sanok might have passed on some memories. I wonder if any 'Genners' might have some information. David Scriven.
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Just recently Ellis Island authorities have requested that we do not post any material from their website; thus if you wish to see the list of immigrants, please email me, and i will send it to you. Please include the town name and your email address. Phyllis Kramer
By the way, it is relatively easy to query Ellis Island passengers, especially if you use the Steve Morse’s query at www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB . Here are the steps:
We are hoping to get
a cadastral map of the city from about the same period, so we can associate the house numbers
with the occupants below.
Alphabetisches Verzeichniss der Gemeinde Stadt RYMANOW Bezirkhauptmanschaft Dukla
Steuramt Rymanow 1852
Geometer IV K1asse Joseph Kaner verfasst vom Adjunkten II Klasse Wenzel Arbeiter
This was translated as: The Galician Crownland. An alphabetical index of the municipality of Rymanow, in the Dukla District, tax department of Rymanow from 1852; Geometer(?) Class IV of Joseph Kaner. Created/sponsored/composed? by the Associate second class Wenzel Arbiter.
F1#-- Haus#-- Name-- Baup # --Grundp #--Sect.
