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Kolbuszowa [kɔlbuˈʂɔva] is a small town in south-eastern Poland, with 9,190 inhabitants (30.06.2008). Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (since 1999), it is the capital of Kolbuszowa County.

Before World War II, half of Kolbuszowa's population was Jewish. During the war, German troops burned down part of the town and about half of the Jewish population perished. In September 1941 Germans established a ghetto and interned 2500 people. In September 1942 the ghetto was emptied and its entire population was moved to a ghetto in Rzeszów.

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the synagogue from the outside, and it's ceiling

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Rzeszów (Ukrainian: Ряшiв, German: Reichshof (1941-45), Latin: Resovia, Yiddish: ריישע-Reisha) is a city in south-eastern Poland with a population of 171,330 inhabitants, as of 30.06.2008. It was granted a town charter in 1354, the capital and largest city of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously of Rzeszów Voivodeship (1945–1998).
Rzeszów is served by an international airport, is a member of Eurocities, and is home to a number of higher education schools, company headquarters, and foreign consulates.


Until on the outbreak of World War II the Jews of Rzeszów numbered 15,000, more than one-third of the total population. The town was occupied by the German Army on 10 September 1939. German persecution of the Jews began almost immediately, by the end of 1939, there were 10 forced labour camps in the Rzeszów region and many Jews became slave labourers in the region. Jews were forced to live in the Gestapo-controlled ghetto. Many Jews managed to flee to Soviet occupied Poland. By June 1940, the number of Jews in Rzeszów had decreased to 11,800, of whom 7,800 were pre-war residents of the city, the rest were refugees from surrounding villages. Life in the ghetto was impossible and hundreds died. During WWII some 20,000 Jews were murdered in the ghetto in Rzeszów. This number includes thousands who were sent to Rzeszów only to be deported or murdered soon after arrival. Of 15,000 Rzeszów Jews, merely 100 survived the war; in Rzeszów itself, in hiding all over Poland, and in various camps. After the war an additional 600 Rzeszów Jews returned from the Soviet Union. Almost all of them subsequently left the city and the country.

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Keep 'em coming! Very cool! However, old men's jewish beards do annoy the hell out of me... I hope that statement doesn't offend anyone browsing this thread... Well, actually I do - life will suddenly be more interesting...

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i just love the pic of the nazi in the synagogue