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In March 1941 the Germans dismantled the ghetto and the Jews of Kiernozia were expelled to the Warsaw ghetto, where they shared the fate of its inhabitants (Treblinka)…Ī photograph from the Ghetto times of my grandfather Jakob Gostynski, hiswife Yochewet my grandmother born in Kiernozia and great grandfather Moses. In December of that year there were about 650 Jews in the ghetto. On July 1 st 1940 the Germans pressed into the ghetto some 240 Jews from surrounding villages. Each day the Germans took males aged 15 to 60 for forced labour. I n March 1940 the Germans set up a ghetto, enclosed by a fence, in two streets inhabited by Poles, who were removed from their houses and the Jews herded into them instead. A few days later these Jews returned to Kiernozia and found their houses looted. The deportees were kept under open sky and without food the whole night, and then sent to forced labour camps. That same day the Jews who had remained in Kiernozia were rounded up and sent to Zychlin, 17 kms. On September 16th Kiernozia was bombed by German planes - the synagogue was destroyed and 20 Jews killed or wounded. O n the outbreak of war in 1939 and the approach of the German army, many Jews left their homes and fled eastwards. Jewish children went to the traditional cheder and to the municipal Polish school. There was a branch of Beitar with some 40 members. Many of the Jews of Kiernozia, and the young people in particular, leaned towards Zionism. Between the two wars the rabbi was Moshe Bezalel Frankel (who perished in the holocaust). The rabbi of that period was Avraham Noah Neumann. buried their dead in the cemetery at Lowicz. A synagogue and religious school existed, but there was no cemetery, and the Jews of Kiernozia. There was an organised Jewish community in the latter half of the 19th century. In the period between the two world wars Jews were also occupied in the same fields. According to partial statistics from the 1870s Jews owned 8 shops and 11 workshops. The Jews lived from small trade and handicrafts. Jewish habitation is not mentioned before the early 19 th century. W e have no data available on the beginnings of Jewish settlement in Kiernozia. During this latter war Kiernozia was occupied by units of the German army from 1915 until they retreated in 1918. In 1807 the village was incorporated into the Principality of Warsaw, and from 1815 until World War I was part of Congress Poland. In 1784 King Stanislaw August Poniatowski ganted the district governor permission to hold six additional annual fairs. It was a centre of trade and industry for local agriculture, and fixed market days came to be established. Kiernozia 's position astride the road from Lowicz to Plock influenced its development. In the 60s of the 19 th century it was owned by members of the Lasutski family. It existed as early as the 15th century as part of the estate of the noble family Szarpski.
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N o details are available on the origins of the village of Kiernozia. My grandparents: Jakob Gostynski of Gombin and Yochewet nee' Holnigstok from Kiernozia. Translated by Morris Gradel, Denmark, June 2000 IV: Warsaw and District, Yad Vashem, 1989, p. Translated from the Hebrew - "Pinkas Hakehilot" Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities - Poland: Vol. When asked about the difficulties of pioneering womanhood in a field traditionally reserved for men, Holtzman conceded that the congregation “probably took longer” to decide to hire her, but that she anticipated no other problems associated with being a woman.To the Memory of Rabbi Yedida Frenkel Ztz"lĪ board "Kiernozia" - photograph from the book "Alei Merorot" of Rabbi Aaronson ztz"l Holtzman will also serve as the educational director for the 110-member family congregation. A person who enjoys working with people of all ages, Holtzman said that a congregation offered her a chance to have a variety of constituents. She said that she will be able to combine study with teaching, counseling and community leadership. The rabbinate is also a “fine career” for men and women, alike, Holtzman noted. Holtzman called this aspect of the rabbinate “exciting.” In Judaism there is a richness and beauty that as a rabbi she is able to share with others, she said. Holtzman said that Judaism is the source of the most “joy and pleasure” in her life. Holtzman, 27, a recent graduate of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (RRC) in Philadelphia, spoke with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency about her reasons for becoming a rabbi. Rabbi Linda Joy Holtzman of the Beth Israel Congregation in Coatesville, Pa., is the first woman to hold such a position in a Conservative synagogue.