Sefer yizkor le-kedoshei ir Pshaytsh korbanot ha-shoa
Editors of Original Yizkor Book: Moshe Bilavsky, Reuven Yamnik, and Moshe Mokotov Project Coordinator: Roberta Paula Books Cover Design: Nina Schwartz, Impulse Graphics Layout and Name Indexing: Jonathan Wind 8.5” x 11” hard cover 320 pages with original photographs
About This Book
Przedecz, located in central Poland, had a vibrant Jewish community for some 600 years, starting at the end of the 14th century. In Yiddish, the city was known as Pshaytsh; in Hebrew, Pshedetz.
Most Jews worked as tradesmen, artisans, merchants and small traders. The community supported a synagogue, a bet midrash, a mikva, Jewish schools, a Yeshiva, a bikkur cholim society caring for the sick, and a benevolent fund which granted interest-free loans. The town had a Jewish library where people could meet to read books, attend dances, hear lectures, and see theatrical performances.
Nazis occupied the town in October 1939. Changing the town's name to Moosburg, they burned the Synagogue and began the persecution and killing of Jews. Nearly half were sent to forced labor camps, where most of them died of hunger and disease. In Przedecz, Jews were forced to live in a ghetto under horrific conditions.
In early 1942, they were packed into the local church and left for three days without food or water. On April 24, 1942, the remaining Jews were sent to the Chełmno death camp.
As the Editors wrote: This book is meant as a memorial and yahrzeit candle... revealing events and deeds in the lives of our dear ones, up to the years of the Holocaust.
Place Details
Alternate names: Przedecz [Pol], Pshaytsh [Yid], Pshedech [Rus], Presheysh, Pshaych, Pshayts, Pshech, Pshedesh, Pshedetz, Pshedets [Heb]
Przedecz, Poland is located at 52°20' N 18°54' E and 89 miles W of Warsaw
Nearby Jewish Communities:
Kłodawa 6 miles S
Kutno 21 miles ESE
Chodecz 7 miles NE
Osięciny 22 miles NNW
Izbica Kujawska 8 miles NW
Włocławek 23 miles NNE
Dąbrowice 9 miles E
Łęczyca 23 miles SE
Babiak 10 miles W
Piotrków Kujawski 23 miles NW
Lubień Kujawski 13 miles ENE
Russocice 24 miles SW
Krośniewice 13 miles ESE
Ślesin 25 miles W
Grabów 15 miles SSE
Radziejów 25 miles NW
Lubraniec 15 miles N
Gostynin 26 miles ENE
Koło 16 miles SW
Uniejów 26 miles S
Sompolno 17 miles WNW
Skulsk 26 miles WNW
Dąbie 18 miles S
Turek 27 miles SW
Kowal 18 miles NE
Konin 28 miles WSW
Brześć Kujawski 18 miles N
Dobrzyń nad Wisłą 28 miles NE
Parzęczew 30 miles SSE