Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland

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1. Develop and provide a clearinghouse for Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland and towns and villages in the immediate vicinity (in the same record group).
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3. Together we can accomplish what an individual cannot.

Aerial Photographs

• From the National Archives - 2343

Book - Cantor Isaac’s Youngest Son By Jacob Hoffman

• Memories from Ostrow. Published 1969 CT275.H63A313 1979X

Business Directory

• Copied/Abstracts of the Jewish names appearing in the 1903 and 1895 Russian business directories (V'sia Russia) - 3359
• 1928 Polish-language - 3359
• 1939 Polish-language - ABCD

Cemetery Indexes

• NY area cemeteries: Washington Cemetery, Beth David Cemetery & Mt. Zion Cemetery - JOG
• The Burial Society: Chevra Bakish Sholom Anshei Ostrover - JOG

Cemetery Survey

• 2 Cemeteries from the published Cemetery Survey in Poland 1994 - 2343
• 1 Cemetery (as above) handwritten survey from Cemetery Survey in Poland - 3359

City Map

• Prewar from the Yizkor Book - 2343
• Current from brochure of Ostrow Maz. 1994 - 3359

City Brochure

• With history - 3359

Civil Records

• Last 100 years - Urzad Stanu Cywilnego, Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland
• Prior to last 100 years - District Archives, Pultusk, Poland
• LDS Records - BMD Films 0808429-0808435 1826-1865

Holocaust Pictures

• Photocopies from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum - 2343
• Photographs from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum - 3359

Holocaust Survivors List

• From US Holocaust Museum - 2343
• Survivors that returned to Poland and registered in several cities with the displaced person committees - JOG

Landsmanshaft in NY

• Mr. Hillary Chrust compiled and edited a book about the money raised to assist Tel-Hashomer Hospital in Tel-Aviv to serve as a memorial to their family members who were murdered during the Holocaust. Contact Judie Ostroff-Goldstein (JOG)

Ksiegi Mieszkancow / Books of Residents (Tenant Registers) - 1880s - 1920's record of residents on house by house basis.

• Registers are in Pultusk branch of Polish State Archives.   - 335

United Ostower Relief Fund, NY - JOG

• Questionnaires filled out by survivors of the Holocaust who returned to Poland and resitered in several cities with the displaced person committees.

Video tape of Ostrow Maz. - 3359

• This is the video taken by a travelor to Ostrow Maz., not a documentary or travelogue.

Vital Records

• 1808-1833 BMD - 2755
• 1834 - 1862 BMD - 1073 and 3359
• 1863/1866-1889/1892 BMD in the Pultusk State Archives - 3359
• 1890/1893 - 1939 For more information on vital records for this time period, contact Michael Richman (1073) or Stanley Diamond (3359)

Voter Records

• From 1912 - ZZZ

Yizkor Book

• United States Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC
• University of Florida Price Judaica Library, Gainesville, Florida
• YIVO, New York
• Photocopy of Cover, Table of Contents, Hebrew Index, Map from 1960 - 2343
• Photocopy of Cover of other Yizkor Book - 2343
• Entire book in Yiddish - JOG
• Translation of Table of Contents, Index - JOG
• List of all names in the memorial list of the Ostrow Maz. Yizkor Book - 3359

Researchers Index