# Biała Podlaska <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Hebrew</td><td dir="rtl">ביאלא פודולסק</td></tr> <tr><td>Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">ביאַלע (Biale)</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Biała Podlaska (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lublin Voivodeship, Poland (city with county rights; seat of Biała County)</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>52.033 23.133</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>Biała</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — Brześć Litewski Voivodeship, Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Podlachia)</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1815</td><td>Biała</td><td>Austrian partition, then Duchy of Warsaw</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1918</td><td>Biała Podlaska</td><td>Congress Poland / Russian Empire — Siedlce then Chełm Governorate (1912)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Biała Podlaska</td><td>Second Polish Republic — Lublin Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Biała Podlaska</td><td>German occupation — General Government (Distrikt Lublin)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Biała Podlaska</td><td>Poland — Lublin Voivodeship</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Biała Podlaska, first documented in 1481 and granted town rights in 1670, was a private residential town of the Radziwiłł family in Podlachia. A Jewish community existed from the early 17th century (1621 privilege from Prince Aleksander Radziwiłł), reaching 6,549 in 1897 and ~7,439 by 1939; it became a Hasidic center and seat of the Biała (Biale) dynasty and published the Yiddish paper Podlasyer Leben. The Germans established a ghetto in 1941; the first deportation on 11 June 1942 sent ~3,000 Jews to Sobibór, and the community was annihilated through further deportations to Sobibór and Treblinka, with ~300 survivors. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Biała Podlaska, Virtual Shtetl — Biała Podlaska, JewishGen Pinkas Poland</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Icek Krajtsztejn (b.1806)]] | Born ~1806, Died 1876 | | [[Judko Krajtsztejn (b.1830)]] | Born ~1830 | | [[Paysach Krajtsztejn (d.1836)]] | Died 1836 | | [[Szjmon Wolf Krajtsztejn (b.1837)]] | Born 1837 | | [[Chawa Rajzla Mozes (b.1837)]] | Born 1837, Died 1861 | | [[Herszek Krajtsztejn (d.1841)]] | Died 1841 | | [[Malka Krajtsztejn (b.1842)]] | Died 1843 | | [[Icek Ofengejm (b.1844)]] | Born ~1844 | | [[Moszek Chaim Mozes (b.1852)]] | Born 1852 | | [[Srul Ofengejm (b.1870)]] | Born 1870 | | [[Sura Laja Ekstein (b.1871)]] | Born 1871 | | [[Ajzyk Zusman (b.1871)]] | Born 1871 | | [[Chaim Szija Ekstein (b.1872)]] | Born 1872 | | [[Chawa Ofengejm (b.1874)]] | Born 1874 | | [[Calka Ofengejm (b.1876)]] | Born 1876 | | [[Brandla Mozes (b.1882)]] | Born 02/10/1882 | | [[Shmul Rywon Zusman (b.1894)]] | Born 11/26/1894 | | [[Szmul Lejzor Krajtsztejn (b.1826)]] | Died 09/19/1903 | | [[Raquel Zusman (b.1905)]] | Born 1905 | | [[Malka Rejzlia Barbanel (b.1907)]] | Born 05/01/1907 | | [[Mendel Zusman (b.1909)]] | Born 02/07/1909 | | [[Chana Laja Barbanel (b.1844)]] | Died 10/05/1909 | | [[Szyfra Barbanel (b.1851)]] | Died 04/05/1911 | | [[Szyfra Zusman (b.1912)]] | Born 10/11/1912 | | [[Szyfra Zusman]] | Born |