# Komarów <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Komarów-Osada (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lublin Voivodeship, Zamość County, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>50.633 23.483</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>Komarów</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — Bełz Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1815</td><td>Komarów</td><td>Austrian partition, then Duchy of Warsaw</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1918</td><td>Komarów</td><td>Congress Poland / Russian Empire — Lublin Governorate (Tomaszów district)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Komarów</td><td>Second Polish Republic</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Komarów</td><td>German occupation</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Komarów-Osada</td><td>Poland — Lublin Voiv., Zamość County</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Jewish settlement in Komarów began early in the 18th century (encouraged by its horse fairs) and grew after 1862, reaching ~1,752 Jews of ~2,895 residents by 1921, with a cemetery from at least the early 17th century. Under occupation a ghetto was established June 1942; the community was destroyed in the Oct 1942 liquidation and deportations toward Bełżec and Sobibór. A monument commemorates 248 Jews killed in the ghetto. <small>Sources: Virtual Shtetl — Komarów-Osada, Wikipedia — Komarów-Osada</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Bajla Zylbersztajn (b.1822)]] | Born 1822, Died 1831 | | [[Chaim Zylbersztajn (b.1825)]] | Born 1825, Died 1831 | | [[Beniamin Zylbersztajn (b.1828)]] | Born 1828 | | [[Dwora Zylbersztajn (b.1830)]] | Born 1830, Died 1831 | | [[Jojna Zylbersztajn (b.1832)]] | Born 1832 | | [[Icek Zylbersztajn (b.1835)]] | Born 1835 | | [[Judka Zylbersztajn (b.1839)]] | Born 1839, Died 1899 | | [[Udla Falk (b.1797)]] | Died 1853 | | [[Mendel Zylbersztajn (b.1797)]] | Died 1870 | | [[Udla Zylbersztajn (b.1875)]] | Born 1875, Died 1876 | | [[Rywka Zylbersztajn (b.1884)]] | Born 1884 | | [[Chanina Kam (b.1928)]] | Born 01/01/1928 |