# Zamość <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Hebrew</td><td dir="rtl">זמושץ׳</td></tr> <tr><td>Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">זאמאשטש</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Zamość (Polish), Zamoshtsh (Yiddish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lublin Voivodeship, Zamość city county, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>50.7167 23.2528</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>Zamość</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — Bełz Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1815</td><td>Zamość</td><td>Austrian partition (Galicia, from 1772) until 1809, then Duchy of Warsaw 1809–1815</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1918</td><td>Zamość</td><td>Congress Poland / Russian Empire — Lublin Governorate</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Zamość</td><td>Second Polish Republic — Lublin Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Zamość</td><td>German occupation (General Government, Lublin District; renamed Himmlerstadt)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Zamość</td><td>Poland — Lublin Voivodeship, Zamość city county</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Jews settled in Zamość in 1587–1588, when Jan Zamoyski invited Sephardim from Turkey, Venice and the Mediterranean and granted them rights equal to other townsmen, and the qahal was founded in 1588. Taken by Austria in the First Partition (1772), the town passed to the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809 and then to Congress Poland's Lublin Governorate under Russia from 1815. The Jewish population grew to 9,383 (49.3%) in 1921 and over 12,500 by 1939; under German occupation the Zamość Rotunda became a site of mass killing, and the ghetto's Jews were deported in 1942 to the Bełżec extermination camp, partly via the Izbica transit ghetto. <small>Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamo%C5%9B%C4%87, https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/, https://www.holocausthistoricalsociety.org.uk/contents/ghettosa-i/zamosc.html</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Kajla JEGIERHORN (b.1842)]] | Born ~1842 | | [[Abram Fruchtman (b.1878)]] | Born 1878 | | [[Josef Blusztajn (b.1889)]] | Born 1889, Died 1889 | | [[Abram Chmielarz (b.1890)]] | Born 1890 | | [[Ryfka Chmielarz (b.1890)]] | Born 1890 | | [[Sura Perla Chmielarz (b.1890)]] | Born 1890 | | [[Morris Beckerman (b.1892)]] | Born 03/14/1892 | | [[Ruchla Morgensztern (b.1895)]] | Born 1895 | | [[Joseph Wajzer (b.1914)]] | Born 1914 | | [[Bluma Rozenblum (b.1938)]] | Born 08/06/1938 | | [[Sznajer Wulf Nissenbaum (b.1886)]] | Died 1942 | | [[Moszko Gersz Fruchtman]] | Born |