# Częstochowa <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Częstochowa (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Silesian Voivodeship, Poland (city county)</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>50.8 19.117</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>Częstochowa</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — Kraków Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1815</td><td>Częstochowa</td><td>Prussian partition (New Silesia), then Duchy of Warsaw</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1918</td><td>Częstochowa</td><td>Congress Poland / Russian Empire — Piotrków Governorate (from 1867)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Częstochowa</td><td>Second Polish Republic</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Częstochowa</td><td>German occupation — General Government</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Częstochowa</td><td>Poland — Silesian Voiv., city county</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Jews are first mentioned in Częstochowa in the early 18th century; the community grew with 19th-century industrialization to ~12,000 (~26%) by 1897. A ghetto was ordered on 9 April 1941 (~40,000–48,000 people). During Operation Reinhard the Nazis began liquidating it on 22 Sept 1942, deporting ~38,250 Jews to Treblinka and shooting ~2,000; a ghetto uprising in late June 1943 was suppressed. ~45,000 were murdered. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Częstochowa, Wikipedia — Częstochowa Ghetto, Virtual Shtetl</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Louis Cybulski (b.1823)]] | Born 1823, Died 1876 | | [[Majer Cybulski (b.1829)]] | Born 1829 | | [[Estera Krawczyk (b.1830)]] | Born 1830, Died 1905 | | [[Mosiek Aron Cybulski (b.1832)]] | Born 05/02/1832 | | [[Berek Cybulski (b.1846)]] | Born 1846, Died 1849 | | [[Łaja Berkow (b.1799)]] | Died 04/15/1849 | | [[Izrael Cybulski (b.1792)]] | Died 1850 | | [[Bernard Cebulsky (b.1853)]] | Born 07/13/1853 | | [[Isidore Isaac Cebulsky (b.1859)]] | Born 07/14/1859 | | [[Chil Cebulsky (b.1861)]] | Born 01/13/1861 | | [[Liber Cebulsky (b.1865)]] | Born 07/27/1865 | | [[William Cebulsky (b.1879)]] | Born 09/01/1879 | | [[Jacob Cybal (b.1881)]] | Born 09/05/1881 |