# Annopol <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">ראכאוו</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Annopol (Polish), Rachów (Polish, former), Rachov (Yiddish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Kraśnik County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>50.8853 21.8569</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>1761–1795</td><td>Annopol (Rachów)</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1915</td><td>Annopol</td><td>Congress Poland (Russian Empire); lost town rights 1870</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Annopol</td><td>Second Polish Republic (Lublin Voivodeship)</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1943</td><td>Annopol</td><td>German-occupied Poland (General Government, Lublin District)</td></tr> <tr><td>1944–present</td><td>Annopol</td><td>Poland (Lublin Voivodeship); town rights regained 1996</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Annopol, known to its Jews by the older name Rachów (the JewishGen Yizkor book is titled 'Rachow-Annopol'), was for centuries a heavily Jewish town; by 1921 about 73% of the population was Jewish, with settlement dating to the early 1600s. Under German occupation a ghetto was established, into which Jews from nearby villages and from Kalisz and Łódź were forced; some were sent to nearby labor camps at Rachów and Janiszów. The ghetto was liquidated on 15 October 1943 and most of its Jews were murdered at the Bełżec extermination camp. <small>Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annopol, https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/annopol/annopol.html, https://sztetl.org.pl/en/towns/a/485-annopol</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Cypa Nacla Lewkowicz (b.1855)]] | Born ~1855 | | [[Szol Szerman (b.1877)]] | Born 1877 | | [[Nichal (b.1882)]] | Born 1882 | | [[Czypora Szerman (b.1906)]] | Born 1906 | | [[Szajndla Nisenbaum (b.1916)]] | Born 1916 | | [[Srul Chaim Nissenbaum (b.1923)]] | Born 11/15/1923 | | [[Blima Szerman]] | Born |