Wolbrom (Volbrom) Jewish Genealogy [27,013 records]

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

Wolbrom was an important Hasidic center in the 1800s. It had a Jewish population of 724 in 1827. During World War I, a typhoid epidemic took the lives of many. By the early 1920s, the Jewish population was well over 4,000. The Germans captured Wolbrom in early September of 1939, when the Jewish population was about 5,000. In 1941, many Jews were sent to slave-labor camps in Kraków. The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust (New York: New York University Press, 2001): “On 5 Sept. 1942, after the sick and old were murdered, 6,000-7,000 Jews were transported to the Belzec death camp while 2,000-2,500 able-bodied men were selected and dispersed to various labor camps. In a second Aktion in Nov. 1942, the small number of remaining Jews were executed.”

Jewish Names in Wolbrom (Volbrom)

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