Wieluń, Poland

                         Wieluń is also transliterated as "Velyun" or Viloyn ווילוין in Yiddish. 

                        Wieluń is located at latitude 52°59, longitude 20°02´ and is located in Kalisz gubernia, Lodz Province, 64.9 miles northwest of Warszawa, Poland.

Kalisz Gubernia / Lodz Province
                     You  can view Wieluń on MapQuest.

• Photographs taken in The Town of Wieluń in 2005
• Photographs taken in The Town of Wieluń in 2008
• More photographs taken in The Town of Wieluń in 2008  

• Wieluń Society Sections in New York area cemeteries

• Wieluń Holocaust Memorial in Tel Aviv Cemetery

• The town of Wieluń 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.
• Please click on the logo at right to access the site.

• Read "THE STORY OF MY FATHER’S LIFE", by Kerry Martin

• Wieluń and neighboring towns' Jewish communities - a site in both English and Hebrew:   http://www.wielun.org.il/

• Satellite Map of  Wieluń, Maplandia.com

• Translation of the “Wielun” Yizkor Book chapter from Pinkas Hakehillot Polin

• Wartime Family photographs from Wieluń   Bala Abramovitz, family and friends

• Vintage World War II photographs of the town of  Wieluń  

• Wieluń Memories and Family Stories An Oral Family History - The Abramovitz Family

• You can visit and see a city map of Wieluń as well as peruse his other Wieluń material at David Gmach's "once upon a time, .. in Wyszogrod" website. You will need to click no box no. 5 to do so. His site suggests that you will need Flash Player 6 + to see his material. You might still be able to without it, so do try to visit his site.

• You can also read about the bombing of Wieluń on Wikipedia

• Wieluń - from Beth Hatefutsoth

• Search the Yad Vashem Database for Holocaust victims. 

○ JewishGen Family Finder for Wieluń
Would you like to connect with others researching Wieluń? Click the link  to search the JewishGen Family Finder database.        

○ Jewish Records Indexing - Poland (JRI-Poland)

On this wonderful website you can search for Wieluń family vital records.  Please click on the logo at right to access this site.

The JewishGen "All Poland Database" is a multiple database search facility, which incorporates all of the following databases: JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF), Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, Yizkor Book Necrologies, JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR), 1929 Polish Business Directory, JewishGen Discussion Group Archives, SIG (Special Interest Group) Mailing List Archives and much more.

Many thanks to Jerry Liebowitz, for his valuable technical support.

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