# Końskowola <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Końskowola (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Puławy County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51.4089 22.0528</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>1532–1795</td><td>Końskowola</td><td>Kingdom of Poland / Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1815</td><td>Końskowola</td><td>Austrian partition, then Duchy of Warsaw</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1915</td><td>Końskowola</td><td>Congress Poland (Russian Empire); lost town rights 1870</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Końskowola</td><td>Second Polish Republic (Lublin Voivodeship)</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1944</td><td>Końskowola</td><td>German-occupied Poland (General Government, Lublin District)</td></tr> <tr><td>1944–present</td><td>Końskowola</td><td>Poland (Lublin Voivodeship)</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Końskowola, a former town between Puławy and Lublin, had a long-established Jewish community; in 1900 its Jewish population was about 1,453. Under German occupation a ghetto was created, which also held Jews deported from elsewhere. On 8 May 1942 many of its Jews were transported to the Sobibór extermination camp; in a separate massacre in October 1942, roughly 800–1,000 Jews, including women and children, were shot in a nearby forest by Reserve Police Battalion 101. The community did not survive the war. <small>Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C5%84skowola, https://cdp.jewishgen.org/eastern-europe/poland/konskowolai</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Laja (b.1800)]] | Born 1800 | | [[Hawa Guterman (b.1830)]] | Born 1830 | | [[Jankiel Wulf Guterman (b.1838)]] | Born 1838 | | [[Rywka Goldberg (b.1905)]] | Born 1905 | | [[Chaskiel Moszek Barbanel (b.1905)]] | Born 03/20/1905 |