# Chodel <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">חודל</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Chodel (Polish), Khodl (Yiddish romanized)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lublin Voivodeship, Opole Lubelskie County, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51.11194 22.13306</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>1440–1795</td><td>Chodel</td><td>Kingdom of Poland / Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — Lublin Voivodeship (private town)</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1809</td><td>Chodel</td><td>Habsburg (Austrian) Empire (West Galicia)</td></tr> <tr><td>1809–1815</td><td>Chodel</td><td>Duchy of Warsaw</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1915</td><td>Chodel</td><td>Congress Poland / Russian Empire — Lublin Governorate</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Chodel</td><td>Second Polish Republic — Lublin Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1944</td><td>Chodel</td><td>German occupation (Distrikt Lublin)</td></tr> <tr><td>1945–present</td><td>Chodel</td><td>Poland — Lublin Voivodeship, Opole Lubelskie County</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Chodel was founded as a private town in 1440, and despite an early-16th-century ban on Jewish residence, a Jewish community grew substantially in the 19th century (123 Jews of 590 residents in 1857), establishing a prayer house and mikveh by about 1860, a synagogue in the 1860s, and a cemetery formalized in 1872. Under German occupation a ghetto was formed, its population swelling with displaced Jews to roughly 1,644 by mid-1941. The community — variously numbered at 750 to 950 at the time of destruction — was deported and murdered in 1942, leaving essentially no survivors locally. Yad Vashem records the town in Hebrew script as חודל. <small>Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chodel, https://sztetl.org.pl/en/towns/c/393-chodel/99-history/137133-history-of-community</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Jankel Izrajel Ender (b.1885)]] | Born 1885, Died 1886 | | [[Alta Necha Ender (b.1887)]] | Born 11/26/1887 | | [[Lejb Chil Ender (b.1891)]] | Born 1891, Died 1892 | | [[Josek Ender (b.1892)]] | Born 11/07/1892 | | [[Milka Winer (b.1867)]] | Died 1893 |