Pławno, Gidle, and Kłomnice Jewish Genealogy [32,699 records]

Where Pławno, Gidle, and Kłomnice (in black) sits among CRARG’s core towns. Click a town to open its page.

Pławno Cemetery (source: CRARG President Daniel Kazez, Springfield, Oh.)

The Jewish population of the small town of Pławno grew from 101 in the 1790s (25% of the total population) to 752 in the 1890s (50% of the total population). In the 1900s, the town’s population grew steadily, but the Jewish population decreased, perhaps because the Jews moved to the nearby, and larger, town of Radomsko. The Jews of Pławno were deported to Treblinka death camp Oct. 10–12, of 1942.

Jewish Names in Pławno, Gidle, and Kłomnice

The long list below shows the most common surnames (and patronymic names) in CRARG’s projects that include Pławno, Gidle, and Kłomnice, 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 Pławno, Gidle, and Kłomnice (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).