# Krzywowola <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Krzywowola (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lublin Voivodeship, Chełm County, Gmina Rejowiec Fabryczny, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51°10′N 23°16′E</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>Krzywowola</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1915</td><td>Krzywowola</td><td>Congress Poland (Russian Empire)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Krzywowola</td><td>Second Polish Republic (Lublin Voivodeship)</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1944</td><td>Krzywowola</td><td>German occupation (General Government)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Krzywowola</td><td>Poland — Lublin Voivodeship, Chełm County</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Krzywowola is a small village in Gmina Rejowiec Fabryczny, Chełm County, in the eastern part of Lublin Voivodeship, about 6 km north of Rejowiec Fabryczny, 16 km west of Chełm and roughly 50 km east of Lublin, in the gently rolling Chełm Hills. It is a small rural locality (about 184 residents in 2021) with no separately documented Jewish community of its own; Jews of the district belonged to the larger nearby kehillot such as Rejowiec and Chełm, both destroyed in the Holocaust. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Krzywowola, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzywowola</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Sura Rotkier (b.1844)]] | Born 1844 | | [[Mordko Eli Rotkier (b.1846)]] | Born 1846 | | [[Josef Rotkier (b.1849)]] | Born 1849, Died 1852 | | [[Icek Hersz Rotkier (b.1851)]] | Born 1851 |