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elcome to the Piotrkow
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Other Names: Piotrykov (Yiddish), Petrokov
(Russian), Petrikau (German), Petrikov, Petrokow, Piotrkuv, Pyetrkov.
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Old postcard photo of
Staro-Warszawska and Zamurowa Streets, ca. 1917 |
Contents
View Piotrkow Trybunalski via Map
Quest (Latitude 51º 24´, Longitude 19º 41´). Hold your cursor over
the map to see a larger view of the area within the square.
Piotrkow Trybunalski is located approximately 42 kilometers or 26 miles
south-southeast of Lodz
in the Piotrkow Wojewodztwo (Province) in central Poland. A textile center, it
also manufactures wood and glass products. One of Poland’s oldest cities, it
was first mentioned in 1217 and became the seat of several Polish diets
(1347–1578) and tribunals (1578–1792). The city passed to Russia in 1815 and
was the capital of Piotrkow province from 1867 to 1915. It reverted to Poland in
1919. The estimated total population in 1991 was 81,300. Piotrkow
Trybunalski has several old churches and the ruins of a castle built by Casimir
the Great.
Piotrkow Trybunalski was an important Jewish cultural, religious and Hebrew
publishing center, with three weekly Yiddish newspapers and numerous Jewish
organizations and institutions. During World War II, Piotrkow Jews were mainly
deported to the death camp at Treblinka.
After World War II, a handful of survivors returned to Piotrkow Trybunalski to
seek relatives, however, the Jewish community was not reestablished. Nearby
Jewish communities existed in Belchatow,
Kamiensk, Lask,
Opoczno,
Pabianice,
Przedborz,
Przyglow, Radomsko,
Rozprza, Serock, Sulejow, Tomaszow
Mazowiecki, Tuszyn, and Wolborz
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JewishGen has initiated a major presentation on Piotrkow Trybunalski,
centered on the book, A Tale of One City: Piotrkow Trybunalski, Ben
Giladi, ed. New York, NY : Shengold Publishers in cooperation with the Piotrkow
Trybunalski Relief Association in New York, 1991. This book is a compilation of
chapters from the original yizkor book published in 1965, and from articles
previously published in journals and books. Our heartfelt thanks go to Ben
Giladi for generously granting
permission to reproduce this book online and to JewishGen for making
this presentation possible. Several chapters are now online, with more to come
in the near future. See the Piotrkow
Trybunalski Yizkor Book Project.
Research Groups and Mailing Lists
 | The town of Piotrkow Trybunalski is included in the Lodz
Area Research Group (LARG), sponsored by JewishGen, Inc. Please visit
the LARG web site for further information on researching your Jewish roots
in the Lodz region. You are invited to join the online mailing list: click
here to subscribe. |
Israel
- Irgun Yotzei Piotrkow
- c/o Yeshiahu Podlowski
- 9 Tchernihovsky Str.
- Rishon Le-Zion
- Israel
USA
| The Voice of Piotrkow Survivors, c/o Ben Giladi, 135-30 82nd Ave.,
Kew Gardens, N.Y. 11435 |
This is a quarterly magazine whose readership comprises survivors, their
children and grandchildren. To subscribe, write to the above address or send
an email to: voicebentov@juno.com.
Other Countries
Many additional Piotrkower Landsmanshaften are located in Canada (Montreal,
Toronto), Sweden, France, England, Belgium, Argentina and Australia. For
further information, contact Ben Giladi, editor of The Voice of Piotrkow
Survivors.
Marla Waltman Daschko, Shirley Rotbein Flaum, Ben Giladi, Paul W. Ginsburg,
Alice and Maurice Klinger, Leonard Markowitz and Petje Schröder.
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The web author would like to express deep
appreciation to Ben Giladi, editor of The Voice of Piotrkow Survivors for granting
permission to reproduce articles and photographs from this
important source. It is a remarkable monument to the martyrs and
survivors of the former Jewish
community of Piotrkow. |
| Above: Drawing of the center
medallion in the ceiling of the Great Synagogue. |
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