Community Story

Plac Mickiewicza, 15.12.1929 Ilustrowany Tygodnik "Samochod"

Zamość lies in south-east Poland close to the Ukrainian border with over 66 thousands inhabitants. Before the war, when Poland lied more than 200 kiolmeters to the east, it was located in circa south-central Poland with more than 20 thousands inhabitants, more than half of them Jews.
Zamos was erected by Hetman Jan Zamoyski (1542-1605) Kanzler of Poland on his private estate, and planned by Architect Bernardo Morandi of Padua (1540-1600) and inaugurated on 1580.
The remnants of the Kehile were transfered to the close Bełżec Extermination Camp on April 1942, thus ending an over 340 years of magnificent Jewish existance. 

History of Jewish Settlement in Zamosc

Zamosc – the birth of a city (not yet translated)
 

They have paved your streets with your gravestones - Bentzion Tzanin,
 translated by Evelyn Abel (née Chaya Rachel Steiner)

Small cruses from Zamosc - Jacov Zilber (not yet translated)
 

Letter from the Mayor of Zamosc concerning a complaint pertaining to the election of the Community Rabbi – December, 1925 (not yet translated)

Association of "LINAS-HACEDEK" (for care of the homeless) in Zamosc (not yet translated)

"Wild Man" - Program of a play of "LINAS-HACEDEK" organization (not yet translated)

Report from 1942 regarding the Jewish cemeteries (not yet translated)
 

Writer Iccak Lejb Perec (1852-1915)

Rosa Luxemburg

A Wedding in the Cemetery - Mottel Steiner (Montreal – Canada),
translated by Evelyn Abel (née Chaya Rachel Steiner)
 

Localization of the Jewish population in the Zamosc province (taking into account the lands of the Zamosc estate

Jews running for the City Council in the years 1918-1939
 

Images of Zamosc Cemetery before it was robbed during the Holocaust and the Following Years 

The Museum of Family History - Zamosc

Yizkor Books Online

Zamosc Phonebook before the War

Card file of Jewish Refugees in Tashkent

Translation of “Zamosc” chapter from Pinkas Hakehillot Polin - published by Yad Vashem

Museum of Family History - The Cemetery Project - Holocaust Memorials