History of the Jews in Wieluń

Groups

Orthodox
Polish-Ashkenazim Musar movement Hasidim Aleksander Biala Bluzhev Bobov Ger Izhbitza-Radzin Kotzk Lelov Peshischa Radomsk Sanz Sochatchov Vurka
Zionist
Betar Brit HaHayal Poale Zion Komverband HeHalutz Lovers of Zion Tarbut Zionist Socialist Workers Party
Other
Bundism Haskalah Jewish Autonomism Folkspartei Reform Judaism

Organizations

Yeshivas
Central Committee of Polish Jews Council of Four Lands Jewish Community Centre of Kraków Judaica Foundation Union of Jewish Religious Communities Vaad Rosh Hashochtim
Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva Lomza Yeshiva Novardok Yeshiva

The Holocaust

Ghettos
Będzin Białystok Brzesko Częstochowa Frysztak Gorlice Kielce Kraków Łomża Mińsk Nowy Sącz Olkusz Opatów Piotrków Radom Siedlce Sosnowiec Stanisławów Tarnów Warsaw
Concentration camps
Auschwitz Monowitz Gross-Rosen Mittelsteine Kraków-Płaszów Lipowa 7 Poniatowa Potulice Soldau Stutthof Szebnie Trawniki Warsaw
Death camps and mass murder sites
Auschwitz-Birkenau Chełmno Majdanek Belzec Sobibor Treblinka Valley of Death
Massacres
Częstochowa Easter Pogrom Jedwabne Kielce Cemetery Tykocin Dynów Operation Harvest Festival Radziłów Szczuczyn Wąsosz
Resistance
Białystok Ghetto uprising Anti-Fascist Military Organisation Częstochowa Ghetto uprising Resistance movements in Auschwitz Auschwitz Combat Group Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Jewish Combat Organization Jewish Military Union Oyneg Shabbos Rescue of Jews by Poles Righteous Among the Nations

Wieluń, Poland is a small town (population in 2006: about 24,400 inhabitants) situated in the south of central Poland, between the large cities of Łódź and Kraków. A Jewish presence in Wieluń was recorded from the early part of the 16th century (1537). Before World War II (1939–1945), Wielun had a large Jewish community (almost half of the local population), which was completely destroyed by the Nazis between 1940 and 1944.

The main source regarding the history of Wieluń's Jewish community is the memorial book of Wielun.