Zawady listing from Polish Business Directories
(Ksiega Adresowa Polski)
Location
Latitude 53 deg 09 min, Longitude 22 deg 39 min
6 km SSW of Tykocin (Tiktin)
40 km W of Bialystok
40 km E of Lomza
Zawady, Poland
Also known as Zawada
Layout of Jewish Zawady ca. April, 1939
Houses numbered only for matching to spreadsheet
Photos & index of Zawady and its former Jewish residents
![Background Information
Memories of a Polish Shtetl
(Zawady, Poland)
This memoir is an edited extract from the oral testimony of Beryl Root, z”l, with the addition of notes, corrections, and comments by Avigdor (Root) Ben-Dov, his son. It was from a research paper (1983) by Joel Petlin, printed in modified form in Roots-Key Newsletter V.27 N. 3/4 JGSLA (2007), and further modified for this Shtetlinks site at JewishGen.
The small village of Zawady [also: Zawada] lies in the former Lomza gubernia province of Poland. It is situated on Route 64 about 5km from Jezewo to the East and very near Lopuchowo, which is on a small road leading to Tykocin (Tiktin). Using better-grade roads, the route to Tiktin is no more than 14 km. A branch of the Narew River flows past the eastern side of the village of Zawady. Route 64, in the other direction, also leads to the large city of Lomza which is across the Narew River about 45km from Zawady. From the Jezewo junction going SSW on highway E67, one travels through Rutki-Kossaki and then to Zambrow, another large city which is about 50km from Zawady. Bialystok is to the East of Zawady on Highway 8 about 40 km.
As was the case in most shtetlach of Eastern Europe, Zawady Jews led a simple existence, were hard workers, and had close family ties. In Zawady, everyday life revolved around the two major centers: the marketplace and the beit Midrash (study hall and prayer house). There were nineteen Jewish families in Zawady in 1939. Each family had a part...
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Holocaust in Zawady
Yahzreit (memorial) dates
August 25, 1941 (2 Elul)
“The Fate of the Jews of Zawady”
Excerpt from pp 37-38 of a book entitled: Deliverance, the Diary of Michael Maik
(2004, Keterpress Enterprises; Laia Ben Dov, translator; Avigdor Ben Dov, editor)
“...the Jews of Tiktin praised "their" Germans for the way they treated them. Suddenly, on 2 Elul (1941), the Germans ordered the Jews of Tiktin to gather in the town square and line up in rows. The congregation of Jews, numbering about 3000 souls...filled the square.... At the gathering place, they were informed that they were being transferred, apparently to the Bialystok Ghetto. From the town square, the Tiktin people were taken to the nearby village of Zawady, a place where eight Jewish families lived at the time. The Germans joined the Jews of the village to the Jews from Tiktin and brought them all back to Tiktin, to the courtyard of the synagogue. There, they divided the Jews into groups and loaded them onto vehicles. The direction in which they travelled was towards the forests of Lupuchowo.
“At that location, the robbers had prepared deep and wide pits well in advance. Poles from the area were informed to tell the pits were intended to store kerosene. The "good" Germans of Tiktin threw their victims into the pits of Lupuchowo. Some of them were shot to death, but most of them were buried alive.”
More general Holocaust information resources
Search the Yad Vashem Database and Pages of Testimony (click here)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum resources (click here)
Search Engines at JewishGen.org
(may or may not contain specific information about Zawady)
JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) (click here)
JRI-Poland and JewishGen All Poland database (click here)
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