News about the Membership Meeting November 4-6 in Washington DC
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It is the objective of the Gombin Jewish Historical & Genealogical Society to preserve the legacy of Jewish history and culture in Gombin, Poland, the town of our ancestral families. We will preserve the record of our family’s roots and genealogy so that the history of 300 years of Jewish life in Gombin will not have been destroyed by the Holocaust.
The preserved record will serve as a basis for the education of current Gombiners now living all over the world and all future generations.
".... The plans to make Gąbin a sanatorium resort failed. However, it became a popular summer resort in western Mazovia. In November 1938, Gąbin became a member of the Summer and Tourist Board of the Warsaw Voivodeship. Part of the city forest was intended only for summer holiday purposes. Investors who declared the construction of houses for patients on very favorable terms. The effects did not take long. In the summer season, about 1,000 people from Łódź and Warsaw, mainly of Jewish nationality, came to Gąbin for recreation. Development of Gąbin as a holiday resort the outbreak of World War II ended ... " (Janusz Szczepański, History of Gąbin and the surrounding area, 2013)
Letniska (Summer resort) - the area of Leśna Street
The "Republika" newspaper, the city of Lodz, June 1938
Press announcement of an invitation to summer resorts in Gąbin
"A boarding house for children under the supervision of a certified tutor in the forested Gąbin. Ritual cuisine. Buses from Lutomierska three times a day. Frankowski Gąbin."
Gąbin, letniska (summer resort) and forest, 1937. (screen from the film by Sam Rafael from 1937)
Architektonischer Atlas von Polen, Berlin, 1921.
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Fabulous, thanks so much for posting.
Great! I think this was one of the photos Wojtek used in his design for the model in the Ethnographic Museum.
More from the recent visit to Gąbin.
You made a good work very touching.
Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you for sharing this!
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