Comments on Town of Ulanow, 2003
By David Wurtzel (with editing by
Melody Katz)
I had a shorter visit in 2003 to Ulanow, than in 1999, when I met the
priest and the local historian. The town has become very
prosperous. I don't know why. There are two new shops in
the rynek (market place). Men were laying new sidewalks in May 3
Street, where the Jewish families once lived, and the unpaved side
streets now at least have rocks, if not asphalt. Outside the
town, there is a little suburb of new houses, which would not look out
of place in the San Fernando Valley (the Polish countryside is full of
new houses, but they do not seem to use their own vernacular). As
for the cemetery, the gates are in good order, the pillars have been
re-white washed and the tombstones themselves are in good condition.
The surrounding outer wooden fence is rather falling apart and there is
still a lot of underbrush, but the site survives very well. I
left flowers by a number of tombstones, and said Kaddush for all
our ancestors.
This has been reprinted with the kind
permission of David Wurtzel.
Copyright © 2003 Melody Katz
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