# Przedbórz <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Przedbórz (Polish), Pshedbozsh (Yiddish romanized)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Łódź Voivodeship, Radomsko County, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51.083 19.883</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>Przedbórz</td><td>Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth — Sieradz Land</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1807</td><td>Przedbórz</td><td>Prussia (South Prussia)</td></tr> <tr><td>1807–1815</td><td>Przedbórz</td><td>Duchy of Warsaw</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1915</td><td>Przedbórz</td><td>Congress Poland (Russian Empire) — Piotrków Governorate (from 1867)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Przedbórz</td><td>Second Polish Republic — Łódź Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Przedbórz</td><td>German occupation (Radom District)</td></tr> <tr><td>1945–present</td><td>Przedbórz</td><td>Poland — Łódź Voivodeship, Radomsko County</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Przedbórz is a town on the Pilica River in Radomsko County, Łódź Voivodeship, in the historic northwestern corner of Lesser Poland. Jews lived there from the town's earliest development; a 1634 privilege of King Władysław IV confirms an existing synagogue and cemetery, and the community grew into one of the region's significant Jewish centers. It peaked in 1921 at 3,749 Jews — about 63.7% of the population — and roughly 4,500 Jews lived there on the eve of World War II. In September 1939 the heavily Jewish town center was largely destroyed in fighting, and the synagogue and rabbi's house burned down. The community was liquidated on 9–12 October 1942, when the Jews of Przedbórz were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp; it was never reconstituted. <small>Sources: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/przedborz-2, https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Przedborz/prze001.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przedb%C3%B3rz</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Dawid Judka Chelmner (b.1846)]] | Born 1846, Died 1847 | | [[Sura Brandla Chelmner (b.1848)]] | Born 1848 | | [[Szymon Chelmner (b.1850)]] | Born 1850 | | [[Matla Elka Chelmner (b.1852)]] | Born 1852 | | [[Szajndla Chelmner (b.1855)]] | Born 1855 |