# Czemierniki <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Czemierniki (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lublin Voivodeship, Radzyń Podlaski County, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51.67306 22.63167</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>Czemierniki</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — Lublin Voivodeship (town rights 1509)</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1815</td><td>Czemierniki</td><td>Austrian partition, then Duchy of Warsaw</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1918</td><td>Czemierniki</td><td>Congress Poland / Russian Empire — Lublin then Siedlce Governorate (from 1867)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Czemierniki</td><td>Second Polish Republic — Lublin Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Czemierniki</td><td>German occupation — General Government</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Czemierniki</td><td>Poland — Lublin Voivodeship, Radzyń Podlaski County</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Czemierniki received town rights in 1509 from King Sigismund I the Old via the Firlej family; in 1622 Bishop Henryk Firlej built a renowned palace and gardens. By 1921 the town had 2,560 residents, about 38.6% Jewish. Under occupation a ghetto of ~1,000 Jews was established (~1940); in 1942 the community was transferred to the Parczew ghetto and deported to Treblinka, with few survivors. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Czemierniki, Virtual Shtetl — Parczew</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Dawid Gotesdyner (b.1812)]] | Born ~1812, Died 12/19/1858 | | [[Moszek Gotesdyner (b.1834)]] | Born 1834, Died 01/30/1874 | | [[Sosia Gradowiecki (b.1835)]] | Born ~1835, Died 03/07/1890 | | [[Berek Gotesdyner (b.1853)]] | Born ~1853, Died 11/30/1903 | | [[Chaja Gotesdyner (d.1863)]] | Died 1863 | | [[Ruchla Gotesdyner (b.1864)]] | Born 1864 | | [[Dawid Gotesdyner (b.1868)]] | Born 1868 | | [[Ajzyk Gotesdyner (b.1871)]] | Born 1871 | | [[Brandla Gotesdyner (b.1871)]] | Born 01/10/1871 | | [[Dawid Gotesdyner (b.1874)]] | Born 1874 | | [[Laja Gotesdyner (b.1878)]] | Born 1878, Died 1882 | | [[Chaim Gotesdyner (b.1881)]] | Born ~1881, Died 07/01/1882 | | [[Frimeta Finkelsztajn (b.1882)]] | Born 1882 | | [[Moszek Gotesdyner (b.1889)]] | Born 1889 | | [[Sosia Kagan (b.1891)]] | Born 1891 | | [[Judka Goldberg (b.1891)]] | Born 02/19/1891 | | [[Estera Fajga Kagan (b.1892)]] | Born 1892 | | [[Gerszon Hejnoch Goldberg (b.1892)]] | Born 02/01/1892 | | [[Sura Kagan (b.1896)]] | Born 1896 | | [[Szyia Goldberg (b.1899)]] | Born 1899, Died 1899 | | [[Judith Gotesdyner (b.1900)]] | Born 1900 | | [[Rojzla Goldberg (b.1901)]] | Born 1901, Died 1901 | | [[Srul Icek Goldberg (b.1903)]] | Born 11/11/1903 | | [[Ryfka Gotesdyner (b.1904)]] | Born 1904 | | [[Berek Gotesdyner (b.1906)]] | Born 1906 | | [[Chaim Srul Kagan (b.1906)]] | Born 1906 | | [[Bajla Goldberg (b.1906)]] | Born 04/30/1906 | | [[Berek Goldberg (b.1908)]] | Born 10/10/1908 |