Gombin. The Life and Destruction of a Jewish Town in Poland. Published by the Gombin Society, Knight Printing Corp, 1969. Viewable in both Hebrew (page 1) and English (page 235).
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Gąbin appears on p1971-2 of the publication, which corresponds to p2109-10 of this document. If you put 2109 into the search box which appears when you hover towards the top of the window, you should get there. This listing is in part B, which is a trade directory, alphabetical by occupation.
If you arrow back or forth from this page, you are turning the pages on an alphabetical list of places within the Warszawa region, so you will come across Gostynin, Plock, Mlawa, etc.
Michael Shade is a retired teacher in the U.K. and a prolific genealogist and blogger. He describes his own work on his Jewish family’s connections in Gąbin Poland as follows:
“At the moment these notes mostly concern Shreibman, Ilitovich, Levin, Lefshitz, Alievsky, Frankenstein, Finkelstein, Waxman, Hodys, Szwarc, Faigin – mostly from what is now Belarus and Eastern Poland. If you hit two or more of these you may well be connected to me. I may also be liable to chatter on about Jewish genealogy, on genealogy in general, and on ways of telling our family stories. 21-7 because that’s my birth-day, and coincidentally it’s also the proportion of my life I seem to spend messing about on the computer.”
The Gombin Society has established partnerships with two important institutions in Gabin. The Staszic School is one of two high schools in the town and was the site of a Forum for Dialog program in 2019. The agreement commits us to work with the faculty and students to teach about the Jewish history of Gabin and promote better understanding. Razem (Together We Can Do Better) is a civic organization committed to promoting multicultural ties through ongoing projects in Gabin. They are actively supporting refugees of the Ukraine War and sending medical supplies to Ukraine.
