page_title: Błażowa
section_title: Jews in Błażowa
hierarchical_section_title: Błażowa / History / Jews in Błażowa
caption_attribution_description: English: Very old photo - from the 1930's - the photographer is almost certainly not alive anymore. All Jews from this village in Poland were killed in WWII by the German Nazis
context_page_description: Błażowa is a town in Rzeszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland, with a population of 2,121 inhabitants.
context_section_description: Błażowa was a shtetl. On 26 June 1941 the Jews of Błażowa, numbering about 930, were forcibly moved to the Rzeszów Ghetto.  They joined Jews from nearby villages and shared their fate. Some were shot on the streets of Rzeszów, others deported to forced-labour camps or shot in Glogów Forest or transported Belzec extermination camp (between 7 and 18 July 1942) where they were gassed on arrival.
  Hasidic dynasty:
  Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Spira of Bluzhov (Błażowa) (1841–1924), the famed Bluzhover Rebbe who was also called the Tzvi Latzaddik.
  His disciple and grandson was Rabbi Yisroel Spira, the Bluzhever Rebbe of America.
caption: Two young Jewish boys circa 1930 from Błażowa (Bluzhov) dressed in their best clothes (perhaps for a wedding or the Sabbath). Unknown photographer. Subjects unknown almost certainly perished in the Holocaust.
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