Sanok
Yiddish: Sanuk, Sonik
The Jewish community once constituted half of the population of
Sanok and was dominated by Chasidim. One could find members of groups
from Bobowa, Belz, Sadogora as well as ultra-Orthodox Chasidim from Nowy
Sacz. The Safa Berura school which included classes in secular subjects
opened in 1909. Aweekly newspaper "Folksfraynd" was published here
between 1910 and 1914. The most famous of the Jews from Sanok were: Meir
Szapiro, leader of Agudas Isroel and founder of the Lublin Academy of
Sages (see page 164); Benzion Katz (1907-1968), Hebrew poet, graduate of
the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and rector of the University of
Tel Aviv, and Kalman Segal, amodern Polish writer, who died in Israel.
During the Holocaust many Poles in the Podkarpacie Region risked
their lives to hide their Jewish neighbours. From among the hundreds of
heroes we should spare a special thought for Stanislaw Pyrcak from near
Sanok. In a cellar at his home he hid twenty Jews who had escaped from
the camp at Zastawie. They all survived the war.
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At Rynek 10 (entry through the hallway, you
can also go round the frontage onto the square from the right hand
side) there is the Chasidic synagogue called Klaus Sadgora, meaning
belonging to the Chasidim from Sadogora, followers of the tzaddik Izrael
Friedmann. Today it is an archive storage and the interior has been
completely re-designed.
The synagogue, photo
The cemetery, once one of two, is in ul. Kiczury. It contains fifty matzevot. All the others form the pavement in ul. Rejtana.
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