# Rzeszów <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">ריישא</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Rzeszów (Polish), Reichshof (German, WWII), Raysha (Yiddish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Subcarpathian Voivodeship (Podkarpackie), city county and voivodeship capital, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>50.0333 22.0000</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>1354–1772</td><td>Rzeszów</td><td>Polish Crown / Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth</td></tr> <tr><td>1772–1918</td><td>Rzeszów (Reisha)</td><td>Austrian Galicia (Habsburg Empire)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Rzeszów</td><td>Second Polish Republic — Lwów Province</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1944</td><td>Reichshof</td><td>German occupation (WWII)</td></tr> <tr><td>1945–present</td><td>Rzeszów</td><td>Poland — Subcarpathian Voivodeship capital (since 1999)</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Jewish settlement in Rzeszów (Yiddish: Raysha) was authorized in the late 16th century, and the community grew into a major center of Galician Jewry, numbering roughly 12,000 of about 30,000 residents by 1914. In December 1941 the Germans established a ghetto confining more than 23,000 people; in July 1942 about 2,000 were shot in the Bór forest near Głogów Małopolski and some 14,000 were deported to the Bełżec killing center, with further deportations in August and November 1942. The ghetto was then used to hold Jews from liquidated nearby communities, effectively destroying the Jewish population of Rzeszów. <small>Sources: https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article.aspx/rzeszow, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rzesz%C3%B3w, https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/rzeszow/rze201.html, https://sztetl.org.pl/en/towns/r/179-rzeszow</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Avraham Segal (b.1625)]] | Died 1683 | | [[Shmuel Segal (b.1650)]] | Died 12/22/1718 | | [[Leah Neubauer (b.1884)]] | Born 1884 | | [[Miriam Neubauer (b.1885)]] | Born 1885 | | [[Esther Neubauer (b.1887)]] | Born 1887 | | [[Yocheved Neubauer (b.1887)]] | Born 1887, Died 1888 | | [[Chaim Leib Neubauer (b.1891)]] | Born 1891 | | [[Simcha Neubauer (b.1892)]] | Born 1892 | | [[Osias Goldfischer (b.1903)]] | Born 1903 | | [[Mojżesz Goldfischer (b.1907)]] | Born 1907 |