# Józefów Ordynacki <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Józefów (Polish), Józefów Biłgorajski, Józefów Roztoczański</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lublin Voivodeship, Biłgoraj County, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>50.4833 23.0500</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>Józefów</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (founded 1720s by the Zamoyski family)</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1815</td><td>Józefów</td><td>Austrian partition, then Duchy of Warsaw</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1918</td><td>Józefów</td><td>Congress Poland / Russian Empire — Lublin Governorate</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Józefów</td><td>Second Polish Republic</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Józefów</td><td>German occupation</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Józefów</td><td>Poland — Lublin Voiv., Biłgoraj County</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Józefów Biłgorajski (also Ordynacki / Roztoczański) was founded in the 1720s by the Zamoyski family and became a noted center of Hebrew printing, with a Jewish cemetery from the mid-18th century (oldest matzeva 1762). Before WWII Jews were ~2,000–2,800 (~60–72%). On 13 July 1942 Reserve Police Battalion 101 carried out the massacre made famous by Christopher Browning's 'Ordinary Men,' shooting ~1,200–1,500 Jews in a nearby forest, with survivors deported toward Bełżec. <small>Sources: Virtual Shtetl — Józefów, Teatr NN, JewishGen, Wikipedia — Józefów, Biłgoraj County</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Iser Natan Groschaym (b.1834)]] | Born 1834, Died 1873 | | [[Chaim Lemel Sztern (b.1852)]] | Born 1852, Died 1853 | | [[Pejsia Jachfet Sztern (b.1854)]] | Born 1854 | | [[Chaja Ita Groschaym (b.1857)]] | Born 1857 | | [[Mindla Groschaym (b.1858)]] | Born 1858, Died 1873 | | [[Lemel Groschaym (b.1860)]] | Born 1860 | | [[Szloma Groschaym (b.1808)]] | Died 01/23/1862 | | [[Szyja Groschaym (b.1866)]] | Born 1866, Died 1868 | | [[Sura Groschaym (b.1868)]] | Born 1868, Died 1869 |