JASLO: Podkarpackie

Alternate names: Jasło [Pol], Yasla [Yid], Jaslau [Ger], Yaslo. 49°45' N, 21°28' E, 28 miles SE of Tarnów, 32 miles SW of Rzeszów. Jewish population: 934 (1880), 2,445 (1921). Yizkors:Toldot yehudei Jaslo; me-reshit hityashvutam be-tokh ha-ir ad yemei ha-hurban al yedei ha-natsim.. (Tel Aviv, 1953)Neduday ba-milhama ve-Yaslo iri (Tel Aviv, 1964)Pinkas ha-kehilot; entsiklopediya shel ha-yishuvim le-min hivasdam ve-ad le-aher shoat milhemet ha-olam ha-sheniya: Poland vol. 3: Western Galicia and Silesia (Jerusalem, 1984). ShtetLink. JOWBR burial list: Jewish Cemetery. photos. A county town in SE Poland with 37,343 inhabitants in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999) and previously in Krosno Voivodeship (1975-1998) in the heartland of the Doły (Pits). The average altitude is 320 meters above sea level with some hills located within the confines of the city. Jasło powiat is a unit of territorial administration and local government that came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Jasło is an important railroad junction in three directions - east (to Zagorz), west (to Stróże) and northeast to Rzeszów. Another line, along the Wisłoka to Dębica, was planned; construction began in 1938, but it was never completed because of World War II. Holocaust memoir. cemetery photos. Jewish history. The Great Synagogue of Jaslo. WWI Military Cemetery with Jewish burials. 1589 to mid-18th c. ban on Jewish settlement existed, but in 1805 5 families lived there. The Jews of Jaslo were originally subordinate to the Żmigród kahal and may have used that cemetery. The ghetto was established in Summer 1941 and liquidated in August 1942 when the occupants were sent to Belzec..Executions took place at the cemetery and the Warzyce woods. [May 2009]

CEMETERY: Located in Ulica Florjanska, opposite house at No. 85. It is well groomed. A new memorial recalls the Holocaust. We could not find the sign of the former WWI military graves. Source: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and see reference to WWI cemetery in Introduction to Poland

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Pronounced "Jaswo". Located in region Krosno at 49º44N 21º28E, 19 km from Krosno. The cemetery is located on Florianska Street. Present town population is 25,000-100,000 with no Jews.

• Town: Urzad Miejski, Rynek 12, 30-200 Jaslo, tel. 2924, telex 65358.
  
• Regional: region Konserwator Zabylkow. (see Baligrod)
  

The earliest known Jewish community existed before 1463. 1921 Jewish population was 2445. Orthodox and Progressive-Reform used the isolated urban flat land. Access off a public road is entirely closed with a plaque in Polish referring to Jews and with Jewish symbols on gate or wall. A continuous masonry wall and a locked gate surround. Before WWII and now it is.33 ha. in size. 20 to 100 gravestones, not in original locations with 50%-75% toppled or broken, date from the 19th and 20th centuries. The location of removed stones is unknown. The marble, granite, sandstone and concrete some smooth and inscribed, some flat with carved relief decorations, some sculpted stones of all shapes have Hebrew and Polish inscriptions There are marked and unmarked mass graves and special memorial monuments to Holocaust victims but no structures. The municipality owns property used only as a Jewish cemetery. Properties adjacent are residential. Occasionally, Jewish and non-Jewish private visitors stop. The cemetery was vandalized during World War II. The gate was repaired and local/municipal authorities cleaned stones and removed vegetation. Vegetation disturbing the graves is a constant problem, weather erosion a moderate threat, security and pollution a slight threat.

Piotr Antoniak, ul. Dobrei 5m 36, 05-800, Przuszkow completed survey Sept. 11, 1992, after visit on Sept. 1.