Gombin: Dos Lebn un Umkum fun a Yiddish Shtetl in Poylin
Original Yizkor Book Edited by: A. Shulman Published in New York, 1969 Translation Project Coordinators: Leon Zamosc, Ada Holtzman z”l Layout: Jonathan Wind Cover Design: Jan Fine Name Indexing: Jonathan Wind Hard Cover, 8.5” by 11”, 450 pages with original photographs.
About This Book
This is the English translation of the memorial book Gombin, The Life and Destruction of a Jewish Town in Poland (Gombin, Dos Lebn un Umkum fun a Yidish Shtetl in Poyln), published in 1969 by the Gombiner Landsmanschaft in America.
The book is a unique source of information about the vanished Jewish community of Gombin. Its narratives, testimonies and photographs offer a vivid overview of the history, religious and secular institutions, leading personalities, social and cultural activities, and everyday life of the Gombin Jews before the Second World War. They also convey the horrors of their persecution, suffering and annihilation after Nazi Germany’s occupation of Poland. As an important addition to the original version, the book includes a new appendix with individual information about more than two thousand Gombiners who are known to have perished during the Shoah.
This publication by the Yizkor- Books-in-Print Project of JewishGen Inc. provides the English-speaking community a primary resource for researchers and for individuals seeking information about the ancestral towns of their families.
Place Details
Jewish Population in 1900: 2,539
Alternate names: Gąbin [Polish], Gombin [Yiddish, German, Russian], Gambin
Gombin, Poland is located at 52°24’ N 19°44’ E and 55 miles W of Warszawa
Nearby Jewish Communities:
Sanniki 7 miles SE
Plock 10 miles N
Gostynin 11 miles WNW
Kiernozia 11 miles SSE
Żychlin 11 miles SSW
Bodzanow 14 miles ENE
Bielsk 19 miles N
Kutno 19 miles SW
Sobota 20 miles S
Wyszogrod 20 miles E