Lelów (Lelev) Jewish Genealogy [12,399 records]

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

In the Encyclopedia Judaica we read that “Several dozen Jewish families were living in Lelow in 1547, but in 1564 only six families remained; each paid the king one red guilder residence tax and a certain quantity of spices for the right to slaughter cattle.” In 1808, 269 Jews lived in Lelów (29% of the total population). About 700 Jews lived there just before World War II. The Jews of Lelów were deported to Treblinka death camp in September 1942.

Jewish Names in Lelów (Lelev)

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

For Lelów (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).