Mstów (Omstov) and Kruszyna Jewish Genealogy [11,679 records]

Where Mstów (Omstov) and Kruszyna (in black) is located among CRARG’s core towns. Click a town to open its page.

Abram Majer Szczekacz & Mirla Blum (source: CRARG member Ruth Wilnai, Palo Alto, California)

The small town of Mstów included about 200 Jewish families by the end of World War I. The weaving of coarse wool was an important profession among Jews. Just before World War II, 532 Jews lived in Mstów. In August of 1942 the remaining Jews were brought to the Radomsko ghetto, and then deported to the Treblinka death camp in October 1942.

Yosef Kaluzynski Arieli (1888-1959) and Chana (née Sznajderman) Kaluzynski (1883-1973) (CRARG member Ruth Wilnai, Palo Alto, California)

Jewish Names in Mstów (Omstov) and Kruszyna

The long list below shows the most common surnames (and patronymic names) in CRARG’s projects that include Mstów and Kruszyna, including Małusy Małe and Wancerzów, which are some of our core towns. The number indicates how many times the name appears in all CRARG records for these towns. Select a name to see records for that name in all of CRARG’s Holocaust-era records.

For Mstów and Kruszyna (and nearby towns), some data will be in our Holocaust records, but the vast majority will be in our pre‑Holocaust database.

Historical information on towns is drawn from Encyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem, Israel: Macmillan, 1978); The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Shmuel Spector, editor-in-chief (New York: New York University Press, 2001); The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2018); Pinkas Hakehillot: Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Poland (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1976); and several town Yizkor books. For their help with translating town histories, CRARG thanks Gloria Berkenstat Freund (Yiddish) and Udi Cain (Hebrew).