JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. STROLLING AROUND TYKOCIN - POLAND.

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Sunday, Tishrei 30, 5781. October 18, 2020.

Shalom! World. 

Tykocin - Poland.

The first Jews settled in Tykocin in 1522 when the town's owner, Olbracht Gasztold, brought in 10 families from Grodno (Hrodna) and permitted them to build a Synagogue, establish a cemetery, and pratice their trades.

In 1661, Stefan Czarniecki assumed the post of starosta (district official), a title that after his death passed to the Branicki family and then to the Potocki and Rostworowski.

The prominence and relative prosperity of Tykocin's Jews resulted in large part from the town's location on important trade routes  linking Polish lands and Lithuania. Jews of Tykocin traded with Königsberg, Vilna, Poznan, and Lublin, and also engaged in taxand tariff farming. 






In the interwar period the Zionist movement grew especially strong in Tykocin. The town's organization established a school and a library. The Agudas Yisroel party was also active, it established a Beys Yankev girl's school. From 1939 to 1941, the soviets occupied the town. On 26-27 August 1941, the germans, having taken over, shot 1400 of Tykocin's Jews in the nearby village of Lopuchowo, sending appoximately anaother 150 to the Bialystok ghetto.




Cultural Support: Jacob Jr. Benleumi, Advisor, Consulting and Education. International Relations Analyst. 

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