# Kazimierz Dolny <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">קוזמיר</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Kazimierz Dolny (Polish), Kuzmir (Yiddish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lublin Voivodeship, Puławy County, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51.3222 21.9475</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>Kazimierz Dolny</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — Lublin Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1815</td><td>Kazimierz Dolny</td><td>Austrian partition (West Galicia) 1795–1809, then Duchy of Warsaw 1809–1815</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1918</td><td>Kazimierz Dolny</td><td>Congress Poland / Russian Empire — Lublin Governorate</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Kazimierz Dolny</td><td>Second Polish Republic — Lublin Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Kazimierz Dolny</td><td>German occupation (General Government, Lublin District)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Kazimierz Dolny</td><td>Poland — Lublin Voivodeship, Puławy County</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Jews are documented in Kazimierz Dolny (Yiddish Kuzmir) from 1406, with the community flourishing as a Vistula trading town under royal privileges. In the 19th century Rebbe Yechezkel Taub, a disciple of the Seer of Lublin, founded the Kuzmir Hasidic dynasty there. Between the world wars Jews numbered about 1,400 (roughly half the town), rising to about 1,800 by 1939. In 1942 the surviving Jews were deported to the Bełżec extermination camp; the town was declared free of Jews by the end of 1942 and fewer than twenty are thought to have survived. <small>Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_Dolny, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuzmir_(Hasidic_dynasty), https://sztetl.org.pl/en/towns/k/447-kazimierz-dolny/99-history/137462-history-of-community</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Dawid Josef Frajdenberg (b.1830)]] | Born 1830 | | [[Mendel Klajman (b.1877)]] | Born ~1877 | | [[Abram Szyia Heszel Barbanel (b.1890)]] | Born 12/15/1890 | | [[Chaskel Szloma Barbanel (b.1893)]] | Born 1893, Died 1894 | | [[Chana Bajla Barbanel (b.1895)]] | Born 1895, Died 1895 | | [[Rochma Barbanel (b.1897)]] | Born 1897 | | [[Szmul Barbanel (b.1898)]] | Born 1898 | | [[Pesia Nirenberg (b.1921)]] | Born 1921 |