Lukow from Siedlce Gubernia

Lukow - once a vibrant Jewish town in vicinity of Siedlce 

Today's population is just above 30,000 [1].
Lukow population just before WWII was 6,000 Jews [2][3] out of about 15,000 [4].  
This accounts for 40% of total population. 
Twenty year earlier (census 1921), the Jewish population reached 50% [5].
Holocaust survivors counts 150 people [6].
Virtually no Jews remained today in Lukow and around [6].  

An honor guard of Jewish former residents of Lukow, Poland, flanking a box containing the remains of Jews from the town who were killed in the Holocaust

Source: http://www.infocenters.co.il/gfh/notebook_ext.asp?book=66474&lang=eng

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Hand picked below are two interesting sources of genealogical information; coming from Poland (naturally) and Russia (surprisingly).  



The Polish website based on the book Żydzi Łukowa i okolic 
(The Jews of Łuków and its Vicinity) by Krzysztof Czubaszek (Warsaw 2008). 

https://sites.google.com/site/jewishlukow/english

This site provides some other Polish links related to the subject under:

https://sites.google.com/site/jewishlukow/varia 

Likever genealogy from Russia (Moscow) by Dmitry Belanovsky

Link: Jewish Lukow - Likever

Jewish Lukow

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References:
[1] "Łuków [ˈwukuf] is a city in eastern Poland with 30,727 inhabitants as of January 1, 2005."
" In the Second Polish Republic, ... Jews made about 50% of the population."
Source: Łuków - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
[2] "In August 1939, its Jewish population stood around 6,ooo."  
Source: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia page 678


[3] "About 6,000 Jews lived in Lukow at the outbreak of World War II." 
Source: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0013_0_12854.html


[4] "1912 Jewish population was 7,985. 1939 total town population [not just Jews] was 14,865." 
Source: http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/poland/lukow.html


[5] "In 1921 6145 Jews lived in Łuków, which accounted for about 50% of the town inhabitants."
Source: https://sites.google.com/site/jewishlukow/english


[6] "Holokaust przeżyło ok. 150 osób".
"Dziś nie ma już Żydów w Łukowie i okolicach."
Source: http://www.zydzi.lukow.pl/ Tab: Kksiążka

Szczecin was a "new" Jewish Siedlce

Very interesting list related to Siedlce can be found on the WWW from the archive of museum "Ghetto Fighters House" in kibbutz Lohamei Ha-Ghetaot.

The list provides list of former Siedlce Jewish residents that lived in Szczecin, Poland immediately after the WWII. The list was compiled by the organisation of Siedlce Emigres in Eretz Israel in years before the independence of Israel.


The list provides full names of 313 people and addresses both prewar residence (Siedlce) and their current residence (it was Szczecin).  

https://sites.google.com/site/myjewishsiedlce/renewed-jewish-siedlce/siedlce-in-szczcecin

The case of "saint" cows of Siedlce

The source ...

Siedlce, Poland, Postwar, Cattle grazing in a Jewish cemetery.

The above link provides a sad evidence of some period after WWII - not the best times for Poland.


Still - each piece of information can be useful if published properly ...
The below zoom-in provides relatively good picture of the tomb with the inscriptions.

Two questions arise in this regard.


One for residents of Siedlce that take an interest.
                                     Is this tomb still in place and intact?
Two for genealogists that are looking for the lost past clues. 
                                     Whose tomb it is?

Collection of information related to Jewish Siedlce

Collection of information related to Jewish Siedlce

Jewish Siedlce does not exist anymore since WWII - the survivors of the Holocaust and the descendants of this once vibrant community live today elsewhere, many in Israel others in different countries. Very view remained scattered in Poland - mostly hiding their past roots. 



These two sites have much information related to the Jewish Siedlce - not easily available otherwise:

https://sites.google.com/site/myjewishsiedlce/
http://www.siedlce.org.il/content/blogcategory/22/458/lang,english/

Unfortunately the history of the city as appears on many Polish internet sites omits the essential information about Jews living in this town before the WWII. Example is the official info provided on this site:

The history of Siedlce