The Book of Klobucko; In Memory of a Martyred Community - Translation of Sefer Klobutsk; Mazkeret Kavod le-Kkehila ha-Kkedosha she-Ushmeda

Klobuck is a small town, located in the southwest Silesian region of Poland, approximately 20 kilometers from the city of Czestochowa. For more than 200 years before World War II, Klobuck had a thriving Jewish community of about 500 families, consisting of nearly 2000 individuals. It was a market town, with a successful mercantile class of trades people, who had created thriving religious, educational, charitable, social and cultural institutions. On September 1, 1939, the first day of World War II, when the Nazis invaded western Poland, Klobuck was immediately over-run, torched and occupied. The cohesive Jewish society that had exisited for generations was completely eradicated; no Jews have lived in the town since. The overwhelming majority of the Jewish inhabitants of Klobuck were murdered, starved or worked to death by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Several hundred Jewish Klobuckers survived the War. They made new lives for themeselves, started new families and resettled in Israel, the United States and Europe. This book contains their beloved memories of their lives before the War. The Rabbis, teachers, and charitable towns people, who helped the sick and poor, are brought back to life. It containts their eye-witness, harrowing, accounts of the six years of horrors and tortures inflicted on them during the Holocaust. The intent of original Yiddish publication of this Remembrance Book in 1960 was that the stories recounted herein would stand the test of time for all generations. English readers who are descendants of the town and reseachers now have access to this primary source material. Klobuck Poland is located at 50 54' North Latitude / 18 56' East Longitude. Alternate names: Kobuck [Polish], Klobutzk [Yiddish, Russian], Klobutzko [German], Klobucko, Klobutsk Nearby Jewish Communities: Kamyk 5 miles ENE, Truskolasy 5 miles WSW, Miedzno 6 miles NNE, Krzepice 10 miles WNW, Czestochowa 11 miles SE, Dzialoszyn 15 miles N, Mstw 17 miles ESE,Nowa Brzeznica 17 miles NE, Pajeczno 18 miles N, Olsztyn 18 miles SE, Aurelow 18 miles E, Lubliniec 19 miles SW, Olesno 22 miles W, Sulmierzyce 23 miles NNE, Praszka 23 miles WNW, Gorzow Slaski 24 miles WNW, Plawno 24 miles ENE, Dobrodzien 24 miles WSW, Gidle 24 miles E, Radomsko 25 miles ENE, Janow,(near Czestochowa) 25 miles ESE, Przyrow 26 miles ESE, Zarki 27 miles SE Osjakow 27 miles NNW, Wielun 27 miles NW, Myszkw 28 miles SE