# Puchaczów <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Puchaczów (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lublin Voivodeship, Łęczna County, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51.300 22.967</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>Puchaczów</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — Lublin Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1815</td><td>Puchaczów</td><td>Austrian partition, then Duchy of Warsaw</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1918</td><td>Puchaczów</td><td>Congress Poland / Russian Empire — Lublin Governorate</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Puchaczów</td><td>Second Polish Republic</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Puchaczów</td><td>German occupation</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Puchaczów</td><td>Poland — Lublin Voiv., Łęczna County</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Puchaczów received town rights in 1527 from Sigismund I, a monastic town under the Sieciechów abbey until its town status was revoked in 1870. A Jewish community is documented in the 19th century with Hasidim active around 1860. During the Holocaust most local Jews were deported in November 1942 to Sobibór and Majdanek; a Jewish cemetery survives. <small>Sources: Polish Wikipedia — Puchaczów, Virtual Shtetl — Łęczna, bloodandfrogs.com</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Azryl Langsomer (b.1816)]] | Born 1816–1819, Died 05/08/1866 | | [[Dawid Lejzor Grynblat (b.1817)]] | Born 1817 | | [[Moszek Grynblat (b.1775)]] | Died 12/17/1820 | | [[Chaim Moszek Grynblat (b.1821)]] | Born 01/07/1821 | | [[Rojza Faywlowa (b.1777)]] | Died 02/17/1823 | | [[Cywia Langsomer (b.1825)]] | Died 07/16/1827 | | [[Moszek Leyb Langsomer (b.1830)]] | Born 11/20/1830 | | [[Nusym Langsomer (b.1810)]] | Died 04/02/1834 | | [[Jankiel Langsomer (b.1834)]] | Born 11/26/1834 | | [[Jenta Hecman (b.1839)]] | Born ~1839 | | [[Rayzla Langsomer (b.1842)]] | Born 10/29/1842, Died 10/17/1843 | | [[Moszek Josef Langsomer (b.1845)]] | Born 10/07/1845 | | [[Icek Langsomer (b.1850)]] | Born 05/14/1850, Died 11/08/1852 | | [[Jankiel Langsomer (b.1852)]] | Born 12/09/1852 | | [[Elo Hersz Langsomer (b.1771)]] | Died 11/17/1855 | | [[Icek Wolf Zaydman (b.1858)]] | Born ~1858, Died 12/16/1861 | | [[Cywia Ruchla Langzamer (b.1859)]] | Born 08/16/1859, Died 11/17/1907 | | [[Serka Grynblat (b.1844)]] | Died 07/15/1867 | | [[Icek Langsomer (b.1813)]] | Died 11/03/1867 | | [[Perla Tuchsznajder (b.1823)]] | Died 03/28/1868 |