Alternate names: Grabowiec [Pol], Grabovitz [Yid], Grabovyets
[Rus], Grabowez, Russian: Грабовец. גראבאוויץ - Yiddish. 50°50'
N, 23°34' E, 21 miles S of Chełm, 16 miles ENE of Zamość, 15
miles W of Hrubieszów. 1900 Jewish population: 1,717. Yizkors:
Pinkas ha-kehilot; entsiklopediya shel ha-yishuvim le-min
hivasdam ve-ad le-aher shoat milhemet ha-olam ha-sheniya: Poland
vol. 7: Kielce and Lublin (Jerusalem, 1999)and Sefer zikaron le-
kehilat Grabowiec (Tel Aviv, 1975). Słownik Geograficzny
Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), II, pp. 776-777: "Grabowiec"
#12. Grabowiec, a village in Zamość County, Lublin Voivodeship,
in eastern Poland, is the seat of the administrative district
called Gmina Grabowiec about 24 km (15 mi) NE of Zamość and 84
km (52 mi) SE of the regional capital Lublin. The village
population is 922. [May 2009] GRABOWIEC I: AS 124 The cemetery
is located in Bronislawka at E end of settlement behind plot
#19, in the province of Zamosc at 50º50 23º34. The town/cemetery
is 25 km NE to E from Zamosc. Pr