Sefer Klobutsk; mazkeret kavod le-kehila ha-kedosha she-ushmeda
Translation Project Coordinators: Allan D. Mantel and Ruth Wilnai (emerita) Originally Published in Yiddish in Tel Aviv, 1960 Editor: A. Wolff Jasny
About This Book
The Book of Klobucko; In Memory of a Martyred Community
Translation of Sefer Klobutsk; Mazkeret Kavod le-Kkehila ha-Kkedosha she-Ushmeda
Hard Cover, 11" by 8.5", 398 pages with all illustrations and photos.
Klobuck is a small town, located in the southwest Silesian region of Poland, approximately 20 kilometers from the city of Czestochowa.
For more than 200 years before World War II, Klobuck had a thriving Jewish community of about 500 families, consisting of nearly 2000 individuals. It was a market town, with a successful mercantile class of trades people, who had created thriving religious, educational, charitable, social and cultural institutions.
On September 1, 1939, the first day of World War II, when the Nazis invaded western Poland, Klobuck was immediately over-run, torched and occupied. The cohesive Jewish society that had exisited for generations was completely eradicated; no Jews have lived in the town since.
The overwhelming majority of the Jewish inhabitants of Klobuck were murdered, starved or worked to death by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Several hundred Jewish Klobuckers survived the War. They made new lives for themeselves, started new families and resettled in Israel, the United States and Europe.
This book contains their beloved memories of their lives before the War. The Rabbis, teachers, and charitable towns people, who helped the sick and poor, are brought back to life. It containts their eye-witness, harrowing, accounts of the six years of horrors and tortures inflicted on them during the Holocaust.
The intent of original Yiddish publication of this Remembrance Book in 1960 was that the stories recounted herein would stand the test of time for all generations. English readers who are descendants of the town and reseachers now have access to this primary source material.
Place Details
Klobuck Poland is located at 50° 54' North Latitude / 18° 56' East Longitude.
Alternate names: Kłobuck [Polish], Klobutzk [Yiddish, Russian], Klobutzko [German], Kłobucko, Klobutsk
Nearby Jewish Communities:
Kamyk 5 miles ENE
Truskolasy 5 miles WSW
Miedzno 6 miles NNE
Krzepice 10 miles WNW
Częstochowa 11 miles SE
Działoszyn 15 miles N
Mstów 17 miles ESE
Nowa Brzeźnica 17 miles NE
Pajęczno 18 miles N
Olsztyn 18 miles SE
Aurelów 18 miles E
Lubliniec 19 miles SW
Olesno 22 miles W
Sulmierzyce 23 miles NNE
Praszka 23 miles WNW
Gorzów Śląski 24 miles WNW
Pławno 24 miles ENE
Dobrodzień 24 miles WSW
Gidle 24 miles E
Radomsko 25 miles ENE
Janów, (near Częstochowa) 25 miles ESE
Przyrów 26 miles ESE
Żarki 27 miles SE
Osjaków 27 miles NNW
Wieluń 27 miles NW
Myszków 28 miles SE