Łuków
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Łuków Jewish community
The memorial book concerns the destroyed Jewish community of Łuków.
Organization of Łuków Jews in Israel
An organization of Łuków Jews in Israel helped publish the memorial book.
Łuków Landsmanschaft in the United States
The Łuków Landsmanschaft in the United States helped publish the memorial book.
Shimon Saraka
Named in the Israel contributor list.
Jacob Braun
Named in the United States contributor list.
Visit to Łuków in 1947
The narrator visited Łuków during a 1947 journey through Poland.
Mass killings near Łuków
Germans killed thousands of Jews from Łuków and other communities.
Establishment of a synagogue in Łuków
The Jewish community established a synagogue before Christians built a church.
Visit to Łuków in 1947
The narrator visited Łuków while traveling through devastated Polish cities and towns.
Mass killings in Łuków
Thousands of Jews from Łuków and surrounding settlements were murdered during 1939–1944.
Persecution on Łuków soil
German perpetrators and their auxiliaries conducted murderous persecution of Jews in Łuków.
Jewish cemetery in Łuków
Jewish cemetery where isolated graves and headstones remained.
Łuków Yizkor book
Memorial book presented as testimony for future Jewish generations.
Jews of Poland
Polish Jews described as suffering during their final journey to gas chambers.
Establishment of a military garrison
Polish rulers established a military garrison to defend the region.
Lithuanian Podlasie
A region inhabited by the Yotvingians.
Yotvingians
A people described as attacking Poland in the region.
Polish rulers
Rulers who established a military garrison at the site.
Military garrison at Łuków
A garrison established to defend the region against Yotvingian attacks.
Piast dynasty
Royal family to which Bolesław belonged.
Gdańsk
City whose occupation increased Łuków’s trade significance.
John Casimir visited Łuków
John Casimir visited Łuków in 1652.
Burning of a synagogue during the Cossack uprising
A synagogue and the original privilege burned during the Cossack uprising.
Burning of the old synagogue by the Haidamaks
The Haidamaks burned the old synagogue, after which a new synagogue was permitted.
Burning of a synagogue in Łuków
A responsum discusses a synagogue in Łuków that had burned.
John II Casimir
King who visited Łuków in 1652 and renewed Jewish privileges.
Polish chroniclers
Chroniclers recorded renewal of Jewish privileges in Łuków.
Synagogue in Łuków
A synagogue in Łuków was burned during the Cossack uprising.
New synagogue in Łuków
Jews were permitted to build a new synagogue after the old synagogue burned.
Meir son of Gedaliah of Lublin
Rabbi Meir son of Gedaliah authored a responsum concerning a burned synagogue in Łuków.
Responsa of the Maharam of Lublin
A responsa work contains a discussion of a burned synagogue in Łuków.
Synagogue of the Łuków community
The responsum refers to a synagogue of the Łuków Jewish community that had burned.
Relocation and rebuilding of the Łuków community synagogue
The community rebuilt its synagogue elsewhere after authorities blocked the original location.
Maharam of Lublin
A rabbi who died in 1616.
Joel Sirkis
A rabbi known by the title Bach, who served in Łuków.
Bayit Hadash
A famous work associated with Joel Sirkis.