Kłobuck (Klobutzk) and Kamyk Jewish Genealogy [31,579 records]

Where Kłobuck (Klobutzk) and Kamyk (in black) sits among CRARG’s core towns. Click a town to open its page.

Szlama Bajgielman (source: CRARG member Roman Weinfeld, Warsaw, Poland; with permission from Uniwersytet Warszawski)

Because of its location on the way from Lublin to Warsaw, Kłobuck hosted yearly markets and fairs in the 1700s and it became a center for commerce. The Jews of the neighboring town of Kamyk joined the Jewish community of Kłobuck in 1854. The great variety of commerce in Kłobuck included a vinegar factory. According to Pinkas Hakehillot: Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Poland (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1976; pages 502-503): Kłobuck fell into Germans hands on the first day of the war and Polish mobs began riots against the Jewish people, as well as plundering property. Many tried to run east but the German army moved fast and the killing started. Jews became the “play” of the German soldiers, who gave them demeaning tasks such as pulling carts designed to be pulled by horses.

Szlama Bajgielman (source: CRARG member Roman Weinfeld, Warsaw, Poland; with permission from Uniwersytet Warszawski)

Jewish Names in Kłobuck (Klobutzk) and Kamyk

The long list below shows the most common surnames (and patronymic names) in CRARG’s projects that include Kłobuck and Kamyk, which are two 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 Kłobuck and Kamyk (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).