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Hello! Thanks for taking a moment to read this.

I am headed to Poland this summer to trace the roots of my family. I am descended from Polish Jews. Fortunately, I have some fairly good source materials, as my great-uncle wrote two books about his youth in Poland and the Holocaust. I know the following and am hoping for suggestions on any groups/institutions to turn to where I could conduct further research on addresses, names, etc.:

Great-uncle: Berek/Bronek Jakubowicz
Grandfather: Josef Jakubowicz
Great-Grandparents: Ester and Awigdor Jakubowicz

I know Ester and Awigdor were married in 1912, Josef born in 1913, and Berek born in Dobra in 1919.
In the 1920s - Family was in the grain business - Had a 15-minute walk to tributary of Marta river from their home. Small and nameless. - Ester found guilt of a crime in 1920s or 1930s

March 1940 - Forced out of house in Dobra, property given to Anders (neighbor family) - they moved into a school across the street.

From then on I have good record of their time in Concentration Camps, but any suggestions on where to turn to for pre-war records or documents would be much appreciated.

Hello,
polish program Straty osobowe prisoners WWII
Personal data
last name
JAKUBOWICZ
name
JOSEPH
nationality
Poland
date of birth
1919-12-30
Place of birth
Dobra village
occupation
car mechanic
Information about persecution
Source:
Archive of the Institute of National Remembrance
IPN GK 131/15
confinement
a kind of imprisonment
concentration camp
place of detention
MAUTHAUSEN
date of incarceration
1945-01-25
number
118859

but which one Dobra village - they are several villiges Dobra
maybe near Limanowa Podkarpacie

Thank you for such a quick reply. This is not them as Josef was born in 1913 and Berek in 1919. I also do have the camp numbers for Josef, Berek and Awigdor: Ben 141129, Awigdor 141130, Josek 141131.

Bereks' camp journey, which I have the best documentation for, took him from the Dobra Ghetto to Steineck to Gutenbrun to Auschwitz to Buchenwald to DM.

So perhaps it is whichever Dobra was home to the ghetto.

Dobra is a town in the Turek district of Wielkopolska
it's hard to find anything from these areas
it was ghetto there

maybe in:
Archiwum Państwowe w Poznaniu Oddział w Koninie

Opowiedziana przez Benjamina , historia i tragizm losów, tej rodziny :
mieszkali Dobra koło Turku
Benjamin Jacobs (właśc. Berele/Berek Jakubowicz,po polsku także Bronek ), więzień obozów w Krzyżownikach (Steineck) i Kobylepolu (Gutenbrunn)
https://www.chaim-zycie.pl/kultura-i-hi ... na-jacobsa

szukałbym ewidencji ludności i szkół

Ah thank you, this seems likely! They mention visiting family in Uniejow, which is nearby

Bialas_Malgorzata pisze:Dobra is a town in the Turek district of Wielkopolska
it's hard to find anything from these areas
it was ghetto there

maybe in:
Archiwum Państwowe w Poznaniu Oddział w Koninie

Pobłocka_Elżbieta pisze:Opowiedziana przez Benjamina , historia i tragizm losów, tej rodziny :
mieszkali Dobra koło Turku
Benjamin Jacobs (właśc. Berele/Berek Jakubowicz,po polsku także Bronek ), więzień obozów w Krzyżownikach (Steineck) i Kobylepolu (Gutenbrunn)
https://www.chaim-zycie.pl/kultura-i-hi ... na-jacobsa

This is very interresting long story of your family in Polish, but you can use Google Translator

Bialas_Malgorzata pisze:

Pobłocka_Elżbieta pisze:Opowiedziana przez Benjamina , historia i tragizm losów, tej rodziny :
mieszkali Dobra koło Turku
Benjamin Jacobs (właśc. Berele/Berek Jakubowicz,po polsku także Bronek ), więzień obozów w Krzyżownikach (Steineck) i Kobylepolu (Gutenbrunn)
https://www.chaim-zycie.pl/kultura-i-hi ... na-jacobsa

This is very interresting long story of your family in Polish, but you can use Google Translator

The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir
Aut.Benjamin Jacobs
https://books.google.pl/books?id=eafK7O ... cz&f=false

Today I called the Poznań State Archives, Konin Branch, and unfortunately the records of the Turek Synagogue District have been preserved only from 1837.

Yes, thank you! Thant's my Uncle's book! This is the second one: https://www.amazon.com/100-Year-Secret- ... 1592285325

Pobłocka_Elżbieta pisze:

Bialas_Malgorzata pisze:

Pobłocka_Elżbieta pisze:Opowiedziana przez Benjamina , historia i tragizm losów, tej rodziny :
mieszkali Dobra koło Turku
Benjamin Jacobs (właśc. Berele/Berek Jakubowicz,po polsku także Bronek ), więzień obozów w Krzyżownikach (Steineck) i Kobylepolu (Gutenbrunn)
https://www.chaim-zycie.pl/kultura-i-hi ... na-jacobsa

This is very interresting long story of your family in Polish, but you can use Google Translator

The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir
Aut.Benjamin Jacobs
https://books.google.pl/books?id=eafK7O ... cz&f=false

There are many census books for Dobra in the fond liked below. Ordering a query in archive could prove fruitful. https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/ ... polu=22050

You should contact and visit Jewish Historical Institut, there is a Library + Archive with a reading room there.

https://www.jhi.pl/en/contact

Good luck!
Jo

Jon, do you know Hersh Yankow Jakubowski from link Elżbieta have provided?

Do 1939r.mieszkańcy Dobra:

Dobra (Turek) ulica Kilińskiego 6
Benjamin Jakubowicz
Perla Szyfra Jakubowicz
Abram Jakubowicz
Ita Jakubowicz
Szmul Lajb Jakubowicz
Józef Jakubowicz ,Perel Jakubowicz Kilińskiego 87
Józef Jakubowicz

Dobra ,ulica Kościuszki nr 1
Sure Rajze Jakubowicz
Bajla Jakubowicz
Szajdel Jakubowicz
Hudes Jakubowicz
Naftali Jakubowicz
Majer Hejnoch Jakubowicz
Dwojra Jakubowicz
Sura Chana Jakubowicz
Ryfka Laja Jakubowicz

https://docplayer.pl/41117190-Historia- ... skich.html

Izraelici z Dobrej pochowani w Dobrej,Czchulcu ,Łodzi
https://www.turek.net.pl/fotogaleria/22 ... odslonieta

Dobra
 Jakubowicz Hersz 03.11.1895r-26.01.1934r., Jakubowicz Wigdor Lajpus ur.24.01.1889r.-1940r.
Jakubowicz Majer
Łódz:
mieszkańcy Dobra
 Jakubowicz Ryfka Łaja, Jakubowicz Sura Chaja
Czachulec Nowy :
mieszkańcy Dobra
Jakubowicz Majer, Jakubowicz Naftali
https://zspdobra.edupage.org/a/szkola-dialogu
 Jakubowicz Marian ? - Uniejów
https://www.dws.org.pl/viewtopic.php?f=6&p=1525532

W zawodzie zegarmistrzowskim 1932r.:
Jakubowicz Awigdor, Kalisz, N. Rynek 2
str,32 „Rzemiosło ‘
https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/Content/322899 ... 32_002.pdf
Kalisz skany
https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/de/ ... polu=95436
Awigdor ur.1910r.był zegarmistrzem i jubilerem
https://getto.pl/pl/Osoby/J/Jakubowicz-Awigdor

Jakubowicz Lieberman Chana /Anna ur.23.12.1913r.Kalisz rodz.Samuel Jakubowicz,Emilia Grinbaum
https://getto.pl/pl/Osoby/J/Jakubowicz-Lieberman-Anna

Ralph Zev Jorden, ur. 04.05.1932r.Kalisz jako Rafał Jakubowicz, Syn Awigdora i Chany /Anny.
https://getto.pl/pl/Zrodla/Wywiad-USC-2 ... Zev-Jorden

II
Rafał Jakubowicz ur.13.04.1912r.Kalisz godzina 10 rano
rodz.Ige/Ide Jakubowicz fryzjer lat 25 z gminy Poddębic mieszkający w Kaliszu,.
Chana Frajda Sochaczewska lat 32
skan 31 akt 73
https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/de/ ... a/11950512