Welcome to the Lask ShtetLinks Home Page.

This site was created and donated to JewishGen by  Shirley Rotbein Flaum until April 2007.  

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Map

View Lask via Map Quest (Latitude 51º 35´, Longitude 19º 08´). Use your browser's back button to return to this site.

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Background

Lask is located approximately 30 kilometers or 18 miles southwest of Lodz in the Lodz Voyevodship (Province). The earliest known Jewish community existed in the late sixteenth century. The Jewish population in 1921 was 2,623 (53.6% of the total). After World War II, a handful of survivors returned to Lask to seek relatives, however, the Jewish community was not reestablished. Nearby Jewish communities existed in Belchatow, Konstantynow Lodzki , Pabianice, Sieradz, Szadek, Zdunska Wola and Zelow.

Town officials:

Urzad Miasta i Gminy

98-100 Lask

ul. Warszawska 14

Poland

The town of Lask is included in the Lodz Area Research Group. Please visit this site for further information on researching your Jewish roots in the Lodz region. You are invited to join the online mailing list.

Searchable Databases

• Jewish Gen Databases 
• JRI-Poland Database

Articles

• Diary of a Journey to Lodz, Auschwitz and Krakow, by Howard L. Rosen
• "We are from the Same Time": Parallel paths link two Polish Shoah survivors in San Francisco; the story of Lask survivors Rachela Lisner Gelbart and Tauba Piotrkowski Weiss

Family Trees

• The Urbach Family of Lask Family Tree. Includes surnames: Drori, Fux, Kanter/Kantner, Kozmin, Lichtensztajn, Najdat, Oszpicyn,  Rosenblum, Rotbajn, Sieradzki vel Szafir, Szynkelewski, Wrobel. The invaluable assistance of Alex Korn in creating this family tree is gratefully acknowledged.
• If you would like to link your Lask family tree here, please contact Shirley Rotbein Flaum.

Landsmanshaft

• ISRAEL
  • Shai Israel, 43 Eilat Street, Holon 58430
  • Shraga Neuman, 45/3 Eilat Street, Holon 58430
  • David Lehrer, 8 Gidon Street, Jerusalem
• UNITED STATES
  • Independent American Lasker Association, Inc., New York, NY; uses Mt. Zion Cemetery
  • Independent Lasker Sick Support Society, New York, NY; uses Beth David Cemetery (Elmont)

Source: Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc., New York 

Contributors

Shirley Rotbein Flaum, Alex P. Korn, Lou Nayman, and Howard L. Rosen Z"L

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