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The Zambrów Rynek (Town
Square)
The United Zembrover Society welcomes you
to the online version of its English translation of the Zambrów Yizkor Book, or
Book of Remembrance. The UZS is one of a dwindling number of
still-active landsmanshaftn (mutual aid societies), more
than one hundred members strong. Most all of our
current members are proud descendants of Zembrovers. We each
feel a need to stay connected to our heritage, and because
of this meet twice per year to share our common bond, to do what we can to preserve the
memory of our beloved "ancestral town." Our society is still
going strong, more than one hundred years after it was first
established.
The Zambrów Yizkor Book was first
published in 1963 by the combined societies of those who
were descended from the Jewish community of Zambrów, Poland.
Zambrów was a
once-vibrant community which, like so many Jewish
communities that once existed in Europe, was wiped out by
those who once sought our complete annihilation. These
descendants of Zembrovers-- both those who were born and
once lived in Zambrów, as well as those who were their
progeny -- at the time of publication lived in various parts
of the world such as the United States, Israel and
Argentina.
This Yizkor Book does an excellent job in
preserving the memory of the past
history of Zambrów town, from its origin and the first sign
of Jews in the community (at least in the early seventeenth
century), to the presentation of a plethora of accounts of various aspects of
Jewish life there, as well as colorful descriptions of many
personages of Jewish faith who once populated Zambrów.
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