Remember Jewish Dubienka

HISTORY OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY

The local Jewish community received the privilege to build the first synagogue in Dubienka from King Sigismund III. However, no documentation has survived on the basis of which it would be possible to reconstruct the history and appearance of it. Before 1939, the synagogue was located at the south-eastern corner of today's I Armii Wojska Polskiego Street (formerly Hrubieszowska Street) and Wełnianka Street (previously called Okopińsko-Holendrowska or Wólczyńska Street). The synagogue in Dubienka was destroyed by the Germans in 1942

Before World War II, on Horodelska Street (once called Bożniczna Street, then also Moniuszki Street) there were two of the three houses of prayer belonging to the Jewish Community in Dubienka. All three houses belonged to the Jewish community. The daily attendance was estimated at a total of "up to 140 people". One of the houses was founded in 1893, the date of foundation of the other two remains unknown

Before World War II, a mikveh operated in Dubienka at Wełnianka Street. There is a probability that it was located in the western part of the street, in the vicinity of the synagogue. According to the list of synagogues and houses of prayer from 1922, the average daily attendance at the baths was up to 20 people.

During the interwar period, a ritual slaughterhouse operated in Dubienka. It is known that in 1930, the slaughterers paid by the Jewish Community were M. Wowczyk and A. Goldsztejn. There is no information about the facility's exact location within the settlement.

DUBIENKA IN THE HOLOCAUST

Of a pre-war Jewish population of 2,500 Jews, only 15 survived the duration of the war.

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Nazis and Collaborators in Dubienka:

- In fall 1942, as a village administrator of Tursko, Wiktor Swaczyna seized a 17-year-old Jew, tied his hands and led him to the German gendarmes who shot him.

Jewish cemetery:

The Jewish cemetery in Dubienka was established at the end of the 16th century, perhaps around 1570. It is situated in the western part of the village, in the place where Piaski street forks off. During World War II, massive executions took place in this cemetery. None of the tombstones survived in the cemetery area. Nowadays, detached houses are built on the part of the cemetery. Further development wreaked further havoc on it after 1945. A 1933 WIG map indicates that its original area was much larger, laid out on a rectangular plan. Currently, except for a small section, the cemetery has been transformed and built over; only a fragment of the historic area remains fenced.

Holocaust Survivors from Dubienka:

- Shlomo Bubis
- Jona Cukierman
- Israel Gajer
- Ascher Krausz
- Pnina Bir Nes
- Celia Nuwendstern Ores
- Estera Rotenberg Shlomovitz
- Bella Schwartz Spiegel
- Sam Szor
- Rachel Goldfarb Sztairman

List of Refugees in Żmudź County, Poland (1941)

Srul Goldberg from Żmudź
Brucha Hohler from Żmudź
Motel Mont from Żmudź
Azriel Nirenberg from Żmudź
Masia Szafer from Żmudź
Fajga Sztajnworcel from Żmudź
Wolf Sztajnworcel from Żmudź
Chawa Szydlowicz from Żmudź
Mordka Frajman from Syczow
Ezriel Hendel from Syczow
Ruchla Horowicz from Syczow
Lejba Rozenbaum from Sychow
Munysz Szach from Syczow
Abram Zylbersztajn from Syczow
Chaja Pech from Bielin
Hersz Bongart from Ksawerow?
Mendel Blecher from Lipinki
Josko Mendzelewicz from Roztoka
Jankiel Werberszpil from Rudno
Doba Cukier from Wolkowiany
Ita Krysztal from Leszczany
Ita Apelcwajg from Leszczany
Hersz Zylberman from Laszczanach
Szymon Alt from Wolka Leszczanska
Moszko Cymerman from Wolka Leszczanska
Lejzor Gierszenbaum from Koczow
Icek Sygal from Koczow
Icek Kierszenbaum from Koczow

source: JDC Archives

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