Project Name. Translation of Goniadz, Poland Yizkor Book
Goniadz, Poland Yizkor Book JewishGen Yizkor Book Project
Manager Goniadz existed in the 13th Century. Because of its
geographic location as a link by land and water among Poland,
Lithuania, and Prussia, it played an important strategic and
economic role and for a long time was a battleground between the
Crusaders and the Polish Gentry. After 1597 Jews were allowed to
settle there. In 1847 the Jewish population of 1337 comprised
65% of the total of 2,050. After World War I, 1135 Jews
accounted for 43% of the total population of 2,642. Few of the
town's Jewish residents survived World War II. In 1960, former
residents of Goniadz published a 420-page, 840-column yizkor
book: Sefer yizkor Goniadz (Our hometown Goniondz), Editor J.
Ben-Meir (Treshansky), Tel-Aviv, The Committee of Goniondz
Association in the USA and in Israel, 1960 (H,Y,E). About 240
pages have been translated by volunteers, and are now online at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/goniadz/Goni