# Rejowiec <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Rejowiec (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lublin Voivodeship, Chełm County, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51.0833 23.2667</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>Rejowiec</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — Chełm Land (town rights 1547, founded by Mikołaj Rej)</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1809</td><td>Rejowiec</td><td>Austrian partition</td></tr> <tr><td>1809–1815</td><td>Rejowiec</td><td>Duchy of Warsaw</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1918</td><td>Rejowiec</td><td>Congress Poland / Russian Empire — Lublin then Chełm Governorate (town rights stripped 1870)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Rejowiec</td><td>Second Polish Republic — Lublin Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Rejowiec</td><td>German occupation — site of a Nazi transit ghetto</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Rejowiec</td><td>Poland — Lublin Voivodeship, Chełm County (town rights restored 2017)</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Rejowiec was founded by the Rej family and received town rights in 1547; the Renaissance writer Mikołaj Rej died there in 1569. Its Jewish community numbered roughly 2,500–3,500 before WWII. Under Nazi occupation Rejowiec became a transit ghetto into which over 5,000 Jews from Slovakia plus deportees from Germany and Hungary were sent, with transports to extermination camps in 1942–43 that annihilated the community; town rights were lost in 1870 and restored on 1 January 2017. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Rejowiec, Lublin Voivodeship, JewishGen Yizkor, Holocaust Research Project</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Kielman Huber (b.1799)]] | Born 11/18/1799 | | [[PLACEHOLDER Tauba Frajnd (b.1804)]] | Born 11/08/1804 | | [[Chaim Kornszecher (b.1819)]] | Born ~1819 | | [[Ruchla Huber (b.1824)]] | Born 12/12/1824 | | [[PLACEHOLDER Sosza Wulwowiczow Szyiowiczow (b.1766)]] | Died 07/13/1831 | | [[PLACEHOLDER Ruchla Frajnd (b.1795)]] | Died 02/13/1835 | | [[Udla (d.1838)]] | Died bef 1838 | | [[Ryzia Frajnd (b.1851)]] | Born 1851 | | [[Fajga Rajn (b.1851)]] | Born ~1851 | | [[Szyia Rotkier (b.1854)]] | Born ~1854, Died 11/21/1935 | | [[Maria Sura Zojnsztajn (b.1854)]] | Born ~1854 | | [[Mordka Frajnd (b.1856)]] | Born 07/24/1856 | | [[Fajwel Frajnd (b.1861)]] | Born 05/13/1861 | | [[Josef Szylkrod (b.1862)]] | Born 1862, Died 1862 | | [[Josef Frajnd (b.1862)]] | Born 06/07/1862, Died 1863 | | [[Kielman Szylkrod (b.1864)]] | Born 1864 | | [[Froim Fiszel Frajnd (b.1864)]] | Born 12/30/1864 | | [[Sura Laja Gieler (d.1865)]] | Died 1865 | | [[Fajga Frajnd (b.1865)]] | Born 09/01/1865 | | [[Cypa Frajnd (b.1866)]] | Born 08/07/1866 | | [[Gitla Frajnd (b.1867)]] | Born 05/08/1867 | | [[Czarna Szylkrod (b.1872)]] | Born 1872 | | [[José Rotkier (b.1873)]] | Born 07/29/1873 | | [[Chaja Bajla Frajnd (b.1878)]] | Born 1878, Died 02/14/1884 | | [[Ryfka Ploc (b.1816)]] | Died 1879 | | [[Szmul Abus Rotkier (b.1882)]] | Born 1882 | | [[Gdal Rotkier (b.1882)]] | Born 09/05/1882 | | [[Szloma Rotkier (b.1885)]] | Born ~1885, Died 12/12/1933 | | [[Jankiel Rotkier (b.1888)]] | Born 07/15/1888 | | [[Kajla Kam (b.1890)]] | Born 1890 | | [[Aron Rotkier (b.1895)]] | Born ~1895 | | [[Dawid Rotkier (b.1898)]] | Born 12/24/1898, Died 01/23/1928 | | [[Shia Rotker (b.1907)]] | Born 11/02/1907 | | [[Kelman Zajvel Rotker (b.1908)]] | Born 02/21/1908 | | [[Wolf Hersz Rotkier (b.1910)]] | Born 07/20/1910 | | [[Morris Greenblatt (b.1917)]] | Born 05/12/1917 | | [[Chiel Efraim Rotkier (b.1919)]] | Born ~1919 | | [[Chaja Perlmutter (b.1919)]] | Born 07/27/1919 | | [[Aron Rotkier (b.1921)]] | Born ~1921 | | [[Ryfka Rotkier (b.1924)]] | Born ~1924 | | [[Chawa Rotkier (b.1926)]] | Born ~1926 | | [[Mordko Hersz Perlmutter (b.1927)]] | Born 06/28/1927 | | [[Szajndla Rotkier (b.1930)]] | Born ~1930 | | [[Mortko Eli Rotkier (b.1931)]] | Born 1931–1934 | | [[Ita Rotkier (b.1932)]] | Born ~1932 | | [[Szosza Chana Meier (b.1897)]] | Died | | [[Icek Hersz Rotkier (d.1942)]] | Born |