Gowarczów (Govartchov) Jewish Genealogy [16,030 records]

Where Gowarczów (Govartchov) (in black) sits among CRARG’s core towns. Click a town to open its page.

The Jewish population of Gowarczów grew to more than 400 by the mid-1820s and the community was prosperous. At the end of World War I, Jews were blamed for the desecration of Polish dead bodies, and a pogrom ensued. During World War II, refugees arrived from other communities and the Jewish population grew from 450 to over a thousand. They were deported to the Treblinka death camp.

Jewish Names in Gowarczów (Govartchov)

The long list below shows the most common surnames (and patronymic names) in CRARG’s projects that include Gowarczów, which is one of our core towns. The number indicates how many times the name appears. Records for persons from these towns can also appear in projects for other towns, especially in marriage records and records for non-permanent residents.

For Gowarczów (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), Shmuel Spector, editor-in-chief; The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust (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).