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	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Lewin and other children of survivors from Losice are determined to put the gravestones back in the cemetery.
		On Aug. 22, 1942, the Nazis gathered all the remaining Jews in Losice and marched them 30 miles under a hot, humid sky to the rail depot at Siedlice, where they were transported to Treblinka.
		Viktor Lewin’s interest in the Losice gravestones was piqued by his efforts to find other relatives who may have survived the war.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=1438 (509 words)

	Losice Yizkor Book (Pages 7-32)
		The few survivors, 100 Losicer Jews in Israel and around the world, without exception lost their nearest and dearest: fathers and mothers, women and men, brothers and sisters, children and babies, as well as everything that could be called home.
		Losice is located 130 kilometers from Warsaw, in the middle of the Podlasie region.
		The administration of Losice belonged to the Siedlcer Powiat and the Lubliner Voivodship.
	www.jewishgen.org /Yizkor/losice/Los007.html (4627 words)

	Photographs of Losice, A Visual Memorial
		This photograph of the Rynek, or Marketplace was taken secretly during the nazi occupation.
		This street was in the centre of the Losice shetl and once part of the Losice Ghetto.
		The desecrated and destroyed Jewish Cemetery of Losice.
	www.zchor.org /losice/photos.htm (653 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		WINNIPEG —Jakob Lewin was born and raised in the eastern Polish town of Losice.
		Now Lewin’s son, Viktor, is part of a small group of children of former Losicers who are working to restore the Jewish cemetery in Losice and erect a memorial on the site to victims of the Holocaust from the town.
		A four-minute DVD that highlights various aspects of the memorial project is also available and includes a copy of a poem that Brianne Lewin wrote in memory of Losicers who perished in the Holocaust.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=9891 (641 words)

	WE REMEMBER JEWISH LOSICE
		During the war between Russia and Poland, Losice was occupied by the Red Army and a militia was formed in which Jews and Poles served.
		On September 24, 1920 the Jewish delegates of Losice presented to the Jewish representatives, Grinboim, Farbestein, and Hartglas, a document that described in detail all the disturbances that took place in Losice during this particular period.
		They were assembled in the central square of Losice, near the municipality building, and from there continued walking in the direction of the town of Mordy.
	www.zchor.org /losice/losice.htm (3472 words)

	Losice County -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Losice is a county in the (Click link for more info and facts about Masovian Voivodship) Masovian Voivodship, (A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II) Poland, located in the east of the country.
		It is naimed after the main town of the county, (Click link for more info and facts about Losice) Losice.
		Losice County has one town (Click link for more info and facts about Losice) Losice and 6 (The smallest administrative district of several European countries) communes.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/losice_county.htm (158 words)

	UWF - UWF News - Press Releases
		Gewirtzman was one of 16 from his hometown of Losice, Poland, who survived the Holocaust.
		Losice had 8,000 residents prior to the German invasion.
		When the Germans invaded his hometown of Losice, Poland, in 1939, "harassment, deprivation and persecution of the Jewish population soon followed," he said.
	www.uwf.edu /UwfMain/press/annualreleases/2005/Sep05.cfm?emailID=15250 (366 words)

	losice - wyniki
		Losice; in Memory of a Jewish Community, Exterminated by Nazi Murderers...
		In 1505, Alexander Jagiello, the king of Poland, arrived in Losice to...
		Transmitter Losice is a facility for FM- and TV-transmission at Losice, Poland
	wyszukiwarka.het.pl /losice.html (149 words)

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		In September 2001 Mr Grynberg and his wife went on a pilgrimage to Losice in Eastern Poland, where his father was born.
		In August 1942 the Jewish Ghetto in Losice was liquidated and 2900 Jews were murdered in Treblinka.
		In the record office he found copies of his families’ birth certificates and was able to compose a family tree.
	www.asmallpieceofhistory.co.uk /programmes2.php?id=4 (115 words)

	July 2006 Page 22
		In1942, when the Nazis rounded up the Jews in Losice, he and his family hid in an attic in one of the ghetto buildings.
		Many years later, Gewirtzman returned to Losice and discovered that 16 Jews had survived of the 8,000 who had lived there until 1942.
		Mukeshimana’s husband, father and sister were all killed; her daughter was born in the midst of the genocide.
	coloradoprogressivenews.com /july_2006_page_22.htm (691 words)

	The Canadian Foundation of Polish-Jewish Heritage -
		He explained that there were "hundreds of Matzevot lying in the backyard of a residence in Losice that had been brought by the Nazis after Jewish cemeteries were raided in Losice, Mordy and Sarnaki, to serve as paving stones for a courtyard at this residence".
		It is our responsibility to leave this legacy so that when the survivors of the Shoah and their children have left us, future generations will be able to look back and learn from the efforts of those who dared to change history.
		As with all memorials there is the issue of finances and it is for this purpose that two foundations, one in Canada, the other in the U.S. have been set up to act as repositories for any monies earmarked for this memorial project.
	polish-jewish-heritage.org /Eng/05-03_Shalom_Irena_Bellert.htm (1177 words)

	Yale Bulletin and Calendar
		Only eight years old when the Germans invaded her hometown of Losice in eastern Poland, Glassner spent most of World War II in hiding, living in unremitting terror that she and her family members would be discovered and killed.
		During her five months there, Glassner spent much of her time in the darkness of a small wooden wardrobe closet, where she actually felt safe until the policeman's family, anxious about being discovered, began to talk about getting rid of her.
		We were among the 16 people from Losice, out of 6,000 Jews from the town, who survived.
	www.yale.edu /opa/v31.n5/story5.html (1682 words)

	Losice, Poland
		Mordechai Shener, (Tel Aviv: Former Residents of Losice in Israel, 1963), 459 pages, H, Y. This material is made available by JewishGen, Inc. and the Yizkor Book Project for the purpose of fulfilling our mission of disseminating information about the Holocaust and destroyed Jewish communities.
		My uncle, Pinie Levine who was an invaluable resource helping in the translation of many words the meaning of which could only be known by someone from the locality of Losice, Poland.
		Ada Holtzman, for doing such a wonderful job in the name of the Jewish survivors of Losice and their children who are concerned enough to remember what once was, and to attempt to correct what is.
	www.jewishgen.org /Yizkor/losice/losice.html (590 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Jewish Brigade
		My father, Jakob Lewin (Levin), was born in 1918 in Losice, Poland.
		Losice is a small town located midway between Warsaw and the Soviet border.
		Prior to it's takeover by the Nazis Losice had a Jewish population of 2900 many of whom perished in Treblinka.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/27/a4272527.shtml (398 words)

	Survivors of genocide bridge worlds, generations
		Gewirtzman, his parents, his sister, his aunt, his uncle and two cousins spent the last two years of the war living in a hole that was four feet deep, nine feet long and four feet wide.
		After liberation by the Russians in 1944, they returned to Losice, discovering that only 16 of its 8,000 citizens had survived.
		Gewirtzman trembled as he displayed a photograph of the monument to his village's dead, taken years after the war, on a return visit to Losice.
	www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/050325/genocide.shtml (862 words)

	The Canadian Foundation of Polish-Jewish Heritage - [Jewish Cemeteries in Poland ]
		Jews had made Losice their home for the last three hundred and fifty years until the evils of Hitler and Nazism destroyed all of it.
		These Matzevot were brought here by the Nazis after Jewish Cemeteries were raided in Losice, Mordy, and Sarnaki, to serve as paving stones for a courtyard at this very residence.
		On 13.01.03 in Losice we had a meeting concerning retrieval of the matzevot from the Jewish cemetery and also concerning the future of the cemetery.
	polish-jewish-heritage.org /Eng/luty_letters.html (2178 words)

	Dia-pozytyw: FORUM
		In 2003 more than 1500 Jewish gravestones were recovered from a property in Losice.
		It is our intention to create a memorial using these gravestones at the site of the pre-war Jewish cemetery in Losice.
		If you wish to commit information regarding your family history in Losice, or participate financially or in any other way please contact me.
	www.diapozytyw.pl /en/site/forum/1158265601/index_html (152 words)

	Losice Region Map: Bejdy — Zorawlowka \| Poland Google Satellite Maps
		Regions are sorted in alphabetical order from level 1 to level 2 and eventually up to level 3 regions.
		You are in Losice (Mazowieckie, Poland), administrative region of level 2.
		If you would like to recommend this Losice map page to a friend, or if you just want to send yourself a reminder, here is the easy way to do it.
	www.maplandia.com /poland/mazowieckie/losice (599 words)

	Łosice
		Shoemakers Workshop in Losice just prior to the outbreak of the war.
		My father, Jakob Lewin, a Losicer and a Holocaust survivor, is standing in the centre of this group.
		Grandfather, Nuska Lewin (second from the left) in a shoemakers workshop in Losice, Poland.
	www.szukamypolski.com /arch/art/gap/1725 (73 words)

	UJC - Jewish Week: United By Horror
		In 1994, while 9-year-old Jacqueline Murekatete was waiting to die at the hands of Hutu rebels in a Rwandan orphanage, David Gewirtzman was reading newspaper articles, often buried deep inside the dailies, about the mass murder taking place in Murekatete’s homeland.
		After his family was liberated by the Soviet Army, Gewirtzman and his family returned to Losice, where they received an icy reception from their non-Jewish neighbors.
		Out of the 8,000 Jews who lived in the city prior to the Holocaust, the five Gewirtzmans were among only 18 who survived Nazi extermination.
	www.ujc.org /content_display.html?ArticleID=146846 (1054 words)

	Po-Lin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Gdansk branch of the Union of Jewish Communities, together with the Heritage Foundation for Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries (with whom the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland completed a project to renovate the cemetery in Dubienka, Lubelskie province), is finishing the fence around the Jewish cemetery in Gdansk.
		We are glad to announce the latest update to the website devoted to the Losice Jewish cemetery: www.zchor.org/losice/losice.htm — “We Remember Jewish Losice.” It is the testimony of Eddie Weinstein, and is one chapter taken from his book, Quenched Steel, The Story of an Escape from Treblinka (Yad Vashem, 2002).
		Also included is a tribute by Weinstein to colleagues and family members without whom, he acknowledges, he may not have survived.
	www.jewishpress.com /page.do/21000/Po-Lin.html (702 words)

	Familytre - pafg55 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Yankiel Wiernik [Parents] was born about 1804 in Krasna near Losice.
		She died on 7 May 1847 in Biala-Podlaska.
		Berko Wiernik was born on 27 Dec 1848 in Biala-Podlaska.
	www.krotman.co.il /familytre/pafg55.htm (292 words)

	Letters to The Ethical Spectacle
		My father and his family lived the small town of Losice, Poland, and so it was for many generations.
		These were brought to this place to be used as the pavement for the courtyard.Over the years there have been many attempts made to reclaim these holy symbols, but all have met with the same fate: failure.
		The Losice town council did allow the placement of a commemorative plaque, which I understand was brought from Landsleit in Israel, but it had to be removed because of repeated instances of vandalism and graffiti.
	www.spectacle.org /0202/letters.html (4053 words)

	MavenSearch - A Portal to the Jewish World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Finding information on particular towns and villages can be frustrating since the names are spelled in many ways and many records were lost as a result of the Nazi Holocaust.
		After the war, survivors often attempted to record as much as they knew about their former villages.
		In the case of Losice, a good place to begin is http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/losice/losice.html Good luck on your quest.
	www.maven.co.il /ask/experts-browse.asp?E_ID=9&ID=170 (624 words)

	Losice real estate guide — property sale and rental in Losice
		Years ago when people bought a home, they would go through a very methodical application process requiring them to complete a ton of paperwork, which would then be mailed out to the banks, employers, creditors, and so on, and then the wait for verification responses began.
		Not all real estate agents in Losice do a good job at responding to their clients needs.
		We hope you found this short Losice property FAQ based on The Horton Team real estate experts suggestions helpful.
	www.city-travel-guide.co.uk /real-estate/losice-real-estate.html (1186 words)

	UMD News: April 11, 2005
		"I was born on May 16, 1928 in Losice, Poland.
		Losice had about 8,000 inhabitants, 75% of them Jews.
		My parents died some years ago, my father at the age of 102.
	www.d.umn.edu /news/2005/April/11-A.html (956 words)

	Events :: Touro Law Center
		Gewirtzman, 76, a resident of Great Neck, survived the Holocaust by spending almost two years burrowed with other members of his family under a pigsty on a Polish farm.
		Only 16 of the over 8000 Jews from his hometown of Losice survived because of the Nazi genocide that killed an estimated six million Jews overall.
		Murekatete, 20, a SUNY-Stony Brook student, narrowly escaped being hacked to death by a rival tribe during the brutal civil war in Rwanda 11 years ago.
	www.tourolaw.edu /alumni_and_development/newspress_releases/press39.asp (304 words)

	Losice travel forum
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	In the Diaspora: Hallowing helplessness \| Jerusalem Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ghetto, Judenrat, work gang, cattle car, Einsatzgruppen - his journey from his Polish hometown of Losice to the death camp at Treblinka included so many of the horrible commonplaces of Nazi extermination.
		Edi escaped not once but multiple times, first from a forced-labor crew outside Losice, then from Treblinka itself, finally from a Polish family extorting money not to turn him in.
		He hid for one month in a pigsty, 17 months in a fish hatchery and nearly three months in the forest, before being liberated by the Red Army on August 1, 1944.
	www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1176152835429&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer (894 words)

	The Project to Restore the Przerosl Jewish Cemetery
		And so, in early 2004, I contacted the Poland Jewish Cemeteries Restoration Project (PJCRP), the organization that was responsible for the restoration of the Jewish Cemetery in
		Ozarow, and which has been involved in a couple of dozen restoration efforts in towns such as Losice,
		The PJCRP was incredibly helpful in establishing contacts in Przerosl and in actually getting the restoration project underway.
	www.przerosl.com (880 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Survivor Edi Weinstein tells the story of what happened to the Jews in Mordy after the war.
		Amazing story also from Edi Weinstein's account, in which he talks about escaping from Treblinka with the help of Leizer Mordski from Losice.
		Photos and information about Mordy and the neighbouring town of Losice during and after WWII.
	mordsley.freewebspace.com /mordsky.html (534 words)

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