Krosno is today a major town and the center of dozens of smaller towns in southern Poland that were once home to many of our 
ancestors. Krosno was in Galicia, an Imperial Province of Austria Hungary from 1776 to 1919, then was returned to Poland after Austria lost World War I. Krosno is located at latitude 49° 41´ longitude 21° 47´, 45 miles west of Przemysl, 180 miles south of Warsaw.
From 1975 to 1998 Krosno was the chief city in Krosno Province (see map below); after that the provinces of Poland were reduced from 49 to 16, and so today Krosno is in Podkarpackie Province.
Update 2/07: Marcin from Poland just wrote:Two years ago in Krosno our local goverment was tidy up jewish cementery. "Kirkut" has been cleaned. Unfortunately no one keeps order on cementery. Old roman catholic cementery from XVII century and Kirkut are falling into ruin. I invite to Krosno, Krosno is now modern town but we remember our prior citizens"
The towns surrounding Krosno are (clockwise, see map below):
Jedlicze (6 miles WNW),
Jaslo (15 miles WNW),
Frysztak (13 miles NW),
Korczyna (3 miles North),
Strzyzow (13 miles North),
Dubiecko ,
Domaradz (10 Miles NE),
Jasienica Rosielna (9 miles NE),
Haczow (5 miles East),
Brzozow (10 miles East),
Besko (10 miles SE),
Zarszyn (12 miles SE),
Rymanow (8 miles SE),
Iwonicz-Zdroj (5 miles South),
Dukla
(9 miles SW),
Chorkowka (5 miles West)
and (Nowy) Zmigrod (12 miles SouthWest) Kolaczyce (18 miles WNW)
Most of these towns had large Jewish populations until World War II.
If you are visiting this page because your family came from Krosno you might want to read about the surrounding communities too, as in Galicia marriages were most often arranged between families from nearby towns; the young couple moved to one of the family towns. So even if, say, your great grandfather came from Krosno, it is possible that his people came from a neighboring shtetl! Those neighboring shtetls that have web pages are underlined in BLUE above. On this page too, you will find information about most of the towns around Krosno.
This page is dedicated to the memory of the Jews of the Krosno Area....in August 1942 almost the entire Jewish population were killed or sent to Belzac. On this page you will find many lists -- 2900 Jewish people who lived in Krosno in the 1940s, and another of those who lived in Korczyna......most of whom perished in this catastrophe; still other lists are of those who survived.
I hope you will find all this interesting and helpful. Please contact either of us if you have photographs or information to add, or any questions. As with any genealogical research, this is an evolving project.
Phyllis Kramer, New York City & Palm Beach Gardens
William Leibner, Jerusalem, Israel
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And, 8/04 we've added the memoirs of Jacob Herzig...a
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And this one, received in 2007 shows another view
Thank you Micha! Isn't the Internet wonderful???!!!???
For those researchers who may have ancestors buried in major New York area cemeteries, an exciting new development in 2006! The following cemeteries have put their lists online and you can browse them at your leisure, either by town name or surname.
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 
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 Halb erstam with his secretaries during his stay at a spa in Truskawiec.
and this last photograph shows Krosno town leaders Greeting the President of the Polish Republic, Ignacy Moscickiego, in March of 1927.
