# Łuków <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Łuków (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lublin Voivodeship, Łuków County, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51.9272 22.3833</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>to 1795</td><td>Łuków</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — Lublin Voivodeship (Łuków Land)</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1815</td><td>Łuków</td><td>Austrian partition (1795), then Duchy of Warsaw from 1809</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1918</td><td>Łuków</td><td>Congress Poland / Russian Empire — Siedlce Governorate (seat of Łuków County)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Łuków</td><td>Second Polish Republic — Lublin Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Łuków</td><td>German occupation (General Government, Distrikt Lublin)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Łuków</td><td>Poland — Lublin Voivodeship, Łuków County</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Jews settled in Łuków by the late 15th century, forming a large, influential kehilla whose Jewish council oversaw as many as 163 surrounding localities by 1676; the community suffered heavily in the Khmelnytsky uprising (1648), a 1655 Muscovite pogrom, and the 1657 Swedish Deluge, then recovered so that by the interwar years Jews ran about 85% of the town's businesses. In WWII the Germans established a ghetto (1941); a brutal first deportation action on 5 October 1942 killed roughly 500 in the streets, and of the more than 10,000 Jews in the town only about 150 survived, with deportations directed to Treblinka. <small>Sources: https://sztetl.org.pl/en/towns/l/729-lukow/99-history/137635-history-of-community, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_%C5%81uk%C3%B3w, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81uk%C3%B3w</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Matys Gerecht (b.1785)]] | Born 1785 | | [[Ita Elbaum (b.1868)]] | Born ~1868 | | [[Sura Laja Barbanel (b.1887)]] | Born 1887 | | [[Rywka Perla Barbanel (b.1889)]] | Born 1889 | | [[PLACEHOLDER Juda Barbanel (b.1896)]] | Born 05/31/1896 | | [[Rajzla Barbanel (b.1903)]] | Born 1903 | | [[Ruchla Barbanel (b.1903)]] | Born 1903 | | [[Rywka Barbanel (b.1903)]] | Born 1903 | | [[Marjem Barbanel (b.1906)]] | Born 02/15/1906 | | [[Chuma Barbanel (b.1907)]] | Born 1907 | | [[Hersz Barbanel (b.1910)]] | Born 05/30/1910 |