MISCELLANEOUS RESEARCH

Some information does not fit easily into the main narrative or other sections. As a possible aid to researchers, the following are additional facts about Zolynia:

• There is a plaque for Zolynia ("Zolin") in the Chamber of the Holocaust memorial at Mount Zion, just outside Jerusalem's old city walls (Room A, Plaque No. 10). Traditionally, Holocaust survivors gather at Mount Zion on the anniversary of the destruction of their home communities. Because no date is given for Zolynia's destruction, the default anniversary is considered to be Yom Hashoah, Israel's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes Remembrance Day, on the the 27th day of Nisan (April 9, 2002, April 29, 2003).
  
  
• "Zolynia" is also carved out in English and Hebrew at the Valley of the Destroyed Communities at Yad Vashem, Israel's national institution of Holocaust remembrance in Jerusalem. The massive 2.5-acre labyrinthian monument is dug out of bedrock and lists the names of 5,000 destroyed Jewish communities on 107 walls.
  
  
• The Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw has records of nearly 4,000 passports
  held by Polish Jews in the 1930s in order to emigrate to Mandate Palestine. The Jewish Records Indexing - Poland project has indexed these so-called Aliyah passports. The full list is posted on the JewishGen web site. There are at least three passport holders whose birthplace is given as Zolynia, and their last names are Bombach, Glucksman and Teicher.
  
  
• According to a 1936 Polish telecommunications and post office directory, Zolynia's telephone exchange was 71-45, it's nearest railroad station was Lancut on the Rzezsow-Lancut-Przemysl line and the post office was open from 8 a.m. to noon, and from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m. daily.
  
  
• Chester G. Cohen's 1989 Shtetl Finder Gazetteer was once the best source for information on the 19th-century Jewish communities of Eastern and Central Europe. Following is Zolynia's listing in that book.
  
  Notes: "Advanced subscribers" helped pay for the publication of Yiddish and Hebrew books. They were usually listed in the introduction with their town of residence. In 1975, the advanced subscribers of over 900 books were compiled and grouped by hometown. Each town was then assigned a catalogue number or "Kagan Number." Hamagid was a weekly Jewish newspaper.

  Zolonie, Zholinia, Zolin

  Zolinia, also Wies Zolynia, W of Lvov

  Located north of and close to Lantzut (Lancut). 1880 -- Advance subscribers for the book Arye Debi Eilai were the rebbe Abraham Yosef Eigra and Yechezkel Chaim Leistna. 1884 -- Moses Katz advertised some back volumes of Hamagid for sale in that newspaper. 1912 -- Eli' Horvitz was rabbi here. Kagan 3078.