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Jeziorzany (Lysoboki) - village center

In February 1498. King Jan Olbracht issued a privilege for Mikolaj of Ostrow to found a city under the Magdeburg Law on the site of the village of Przytoczno, but the location did not come to fruition. In 1530. The new owner of the estate, Łukasz Zbąski, received confirmation of the previously issued privilege from King Sigismund the Old and in 1533. He founded the town of Nowe Przytoczno near the village. Before 1564. It received the name Lysoboki.As the property of the Rzewuski, Krasinski and Przanowski families, it developed poorly economically.Residents made their living mainly from agriculture, trade, distilling, blacksmithing and rafting. In 1859.Lysoboki was destroyed by a major fire.In 1869 or 1870. They lost their municipal rights. During World War I (in 1915), the village was almost completely burned down by retreating Russian troops.Jews in Lysoboki - Until 1918. - As early as the 1662 Lublin town books. list among the residents of Lysoboki the Jewish landlord Abraham Zelmanowicz and his son Leyzor. On a wider scale, Jews began to settle in Lysoboki only at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries.Initially, they were subordinate to the community in Kock. Probably in the first half of the 18th century. A separate community was established, bringing together 372 Jews from the city and surrounding villages. There were 46 Jews in Lysoboki alone, and the community was one of the smallest in the area.In 1727. Local Jews paid 250 zlotys of poll tax. Due to its small size and low income, the municipality was heavily influenced by the municipality in Kock.Jews in Lysoboki lived mainly near the market. Probably in connection with the establishment of the municipality in the 18th century. South of the center, on the road to Milejow, near the bridge over the Wieprz River, the first synagogue was erected. In the first half of the century, a cemetery was established outside the city limits.Jews made their living mainly from trade, crafts and rent, and to a lesser extent from agriculture. According to data from 1885. Lysoboki had a wooden synagogue, a beit ha-midrash, a mikveh and a cemetery.There were also two cheders in the settlement. Rabbi of Lysoboki from 1880 to 1930. was Munys Wajntraub.Interwar period - According to data from 1921. In addition to the residents of Lysoboki itself, the community included Jews living in the villages of: Drewnik, Blizocin, Ferdynandów, Kalinowy Dół, Krępa, Natalin, Niedźwiedź, Podlodówka, Przytoczno, Walentynów, Wola Blizocka, Zielony Las, Budziska, Charlejów and Zarzecze, in the granges: Przytoczno, Podlodów, Lendo, Charlejów, and in colonies: Burowka, Nowiny and Myciska. In 1921. A synagogue with a mikvah burned down.They were soon rebuilt. No later than 1930. A new ritual slaughterhouse was built.Holocaust - In 1942. By the road to Michow, south of the village of Drewnik, the Germans carried out a mass execution in which they slaughtered the elderly and infirm from Lysoboki. Most of the remaining Jews were deported to Lukow and Michow, from where they were probably taken to the Sobibor death camp in May of that year.

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