Official, pre-war records of births, marriages and deaths of many thousands of Jews going back to the 19th century have been located in a church of the small town of Zaromb, half-way between Warsaw and Bialistok, according to a report in the latest issue of Folkstimme, Yiddish-language newspaper published in Warsaw.
A Catholic priest in the village notified the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw about the cache of official, vital records, and these have now been taken over by the Institute. No one knows how the records happened to have been saved in the church at Zaromb. The town of Zaromb was totally destroyed during World War II. Not a single one of the town’s 3,000 Jews survived, all having been executed by the Nazis in fields outside the town.
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