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- Before World War II, about 25,000 Jews lived in Tarnow, a city in southern Poland, 45 miles east of Krakow (Cracow). Jews—whose recorded presence in the town went back to the mid-fifteenth century—comprised about half of the town's total population. A large portion of Jewish business in Tarnow was devoted to garment and hat manufacturing.
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Before World War II, about 25,000 Jews lived in Tarnow, a city in southern Poland, 45 miles east of Krakow (Cracow). Jews—whose recorded presence in the town went back to the mid-fifteenth century—comprised about half of the town's total population.
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Before the outbreak of World War II, the population of Tarnów was 40,000, of which almost half were Jewish. On 28 August 1939, a German Nazi saboteur conducted the Tarnów rail station bomb attack killing 20 civilians and wounding 35, four days before the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the outbreak of World War II .
Its Jewish population grew steadily from the 18 th century to the period just before the war in 1931 when it numbered about 25,000 people, about half the town's population. In the period between the first partition of Poland in 1772 until 1918, Tarnow was part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire.
Jan 26, 2024 · Frances was born and raised in Tarnow, a city that was almost half Jewish before the war. Its Jewish residents represented a cross-section of religious observance, social backgrounds, and...
Tarnow, Poland. Project Coordinator. Jill Leibman. This is a translation from: Tarnow; kiyuma ve-hurbana shel ir yehudit; (The Life and Destruction of a Jewish city (2 vols)), Editors: A. Chomet, Tel Aviv, Association of Former Residents of Tarnow, 1954-1968. (H, Y, 1381 pages)
Nov 4, 2022 · In 1936, about 25,000 Jews lived in Tarnow — about half the city’s population. Between the two world wars, Jewish political parties were much more active in local politics than on the...
Jan 26, 2024 · The Tarnow community, a center of Polish Jewish life in Galicia, was devastated during the Shoah when its 25,000 Jewish residents were deported, and its synagogues were destroyed.
