# Piszczac <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Piszczac (Polish), Pishchats (Yiddish romanized)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lublin Voivodeship, Biała Podlaska County, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51.967 23.383</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>Piszczac</td><td>Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth — Brześć Litewski Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1809</td><td>Piszczac</td><td>Habsburg Austria (West Galicia)</td></tr> <tr><td>1809–1815</td><td>Piszczac</td><td>Duchy of Warsaw</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1915</td><td>Piszczac</td><td>Congress Poland (Russian Empire) — Siedlce Governorate</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Piszczac</td><td>Second Polish Republic — Lublin Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1944</td><td>Piszczac</td><td>German occupation (Lublin District)</td></tr> <tr><td>1944–present</td><td>Piszczac</td><td>Poland — Lublin Voivodeship, Biała Podlaska County</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Piszczac is a village about 20 km east-southeast of Biała Podlaska and roughly 16 miles southwest of Brest, in eastern Lublin Voivodeship. A former royal town that lost its municipal rights in 1869, it had a substantial Jewish minority: around 1909 about 40% of its roughly 2,600 residents were Jewish, and the Orthodox Jewish population recorded just before World War II was about 500. During the German occupation it became a holding point in the regional deportation system — in March 1941 some 550 deportees from Kraków were sent to Piszczac. The 19th-century Jewish cemetery survives as a fenced site with no surviving gravestones, and the Jewish community was destroyed in the Holocaust. <small>Sources: https://cdp.jewishgen.org/eastern-europe/poland/piszczac, https://www.holocausthistoricalsociety.org.uk/contents/ghettosa-i/bialapodlaska.html</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Michel Ajzyk Blufogel (b.1828)]] | Born 1828, Died 1855 | | [[Jankiel Majer Blufogel (b.1850)]] | Died 09/28/1852 | | [[Alter Moszko Blufogel (b.1853)]] | Born 1853, Died 1854 | | [[Ruchla Gitla Aronowiczówna (d.1855)]] | Died 1855 | | [[PLACEHOLDER Berko Blufogel (b.1800)]] | Died 08/11/1855 |