Sulmierzyce (Silmerzitz) Jewish Genealogy [6,948 records]

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

The very small Jewish community of Sulmierzyce numbered 157 in the early 1920s, which constituted under 15% of the total population. As World War II began, 30 Jewish families who remained in Sulmierzyce fled.

Jewish Names in Sulmierzyce (Silmerzitz)

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