Wyszograd (a/k/a Vishograd) is located in the Plock district of Poland. It was a great Jewish and Zionist center.
Evidence of Jews in Wszograd dates back to 1231, and possibly earlier to 1095. It is "39 versts from Plock" and is on the riverbanks of the Vistula.
In 1864 there were 2997 Jews and 1000 non-Jews in Wyszograd. In 1887 there were 2735 Jews out of a total population of 4160 people.
In America the landsmanschaft for Vishograd is called the Hevra B'Nai Ya'acov David of Vishograd.
3 September 1939: Vishograd bombed by the Nazis.
9 September 1939: Heavy bombing.
22-23 September: Gestapo officers beat Jews praying in their Synogogue on Yom Kippur.
30 September: Stores looted during Chol Ha-Moed Sukkot.
6-7 December: On Chanukah, Germans force Jews to start dismantling their synogogue and the materials are given to non-Jews for fuel. The structure was completely gone by Pesach (22 April) 1940.
May 1940: Many Jewish homes are destroyed. The old cemetery is desecrated and bones are thrown in the Vistula. [Bones were later gathered and buried in a new cemetery.]
6 March 1941: Seven hundred Jews are deported to Slopie Nowa, and an open ghetto is established in Vishograd.
3 August 1941: On Tisha B'Av, the ghetto is closed. Several hundred Jews die of typhoid in Mowy Dwor.
Pesach 1942: Czerwinski ghetto inhabitants are moved to Nowy Dwor.
November-12 December 1942: Deportations to Auschwitz death camp.
26 December 1942: All the women on the transport for this date were killed in Auschwitz.
7 April 1944: Seder celebrated in Bona-Auschwitz in bloc number 60.
18 January 1945: Auschwitz evacuated.
Click here to see a 1902 map of the Tsarist Polish provinces.
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