# Janów Lubelski <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Janów Lubelski (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lublin Voivodeship, Janów Lubelski County, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>50.7167 22.4167</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>Janów Ordynacki</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — Lublin Voivodeship (Zamość Ordynacja)</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1815</td><td>Janów</td><td>Austrian partition (West Galicia), then Duchy of Warsaw from 1809</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1918</td><td>Janów</td><td>Congress Poland / Russian Empire — Lublin Governorate (seat of Janowski County)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Janów Lubelski</td><td>Second Polish Republic — Lublin Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Janów Lubelski</td><td>German occupation (General Government, Distrikt Lublin)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Janów Lubelski</td><td>Poland — Lublin Voivodeship, Janów Lubelski County</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Jews were permitted to settle by the Zamoyski owners in the mid-17th century; a synagogue was authorized in 1719 and built by 1740, and by the 19th and early 20th centuries Jews made up roughly 45% of the population (2,881, about 44.8%, in 1921). Under German occupation Jewish property was plundered and a labor camp was established by late 1940; the community was annihilated in 1942 through local mass executions and deportation via Zaklików to the Bełżec death camp, with only about 20 known survivors. <small>Sources: https://sztetl.org.pl/en/towns/j/1088-janow/99-history/137392-history-of-community, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%C3%B3w_Lubelski, https://teatrnn.pl/lexicon/articles/janow-lubelski-the-shtetl/</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Ruchla Hofman (b.1783)]] | Born 1783 | | [[Hinda Feivelson (b.1867)]] | Born ~1867 | | [[Icek Majer Gersztenblit (b.1872)]] | Born ~1872 | | [[Laja Chaja Hofman (b.1880)]] | Born 05/13/1880 | | [[Abram Wulf Hofman (b.1883)]] | Born 06/14/1883 | | [[Moszek Hofman (b.1887)]] | Born 09/29/1887, Died 03/21/1890 | | [[Icek Mordko Hofman (b.1850)]] | Died 01/26/1890 | | [[Gecel Gersztenblit (b.1891)]] | Born 10/05/1891 | | [[Malka Aybsuc (b.1892)]] | Born 1892 | | [[Aron Mordko Hirszman (b.1905)]] | Born 05/01/1905 |