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LASK (Pol. Łask), town in Lodz province, central Poland. The Jewish settlement of the town began to develop at the close of the 16^th century. For about two centuries, the owners of the town were favorably disposed toward the Jewish population and protected it from the local clergy. The fires which burnt down most of the town's houses in 1624 and 1747 caused heavylosses to the Jewish population. The ancient synagogue and cemetery were destroyed. Thanks to the right of residence granted in 1640 by Stanislaw Wierzbowski, Lask Jews were authorized to engage in crafts, to trade in grain and *livestock, and to lease and keep inns. They were, however, forbidden to acquire houses and building lots in the market square and the neighboring streets. From the close of the 17^th century, the Jews of the town paid heavy taxes toward the maintenance of the army. During the early 1790s the debts of the community increased considerably, to about 30,000 zlotys. According to the census of 1765, there were 891 Jews in Lask and a further 276 in the 54 small surrounding settlements subordinate to the community. In 1827, there were 1,270 Jews (64% of the total population). From 1827 on the new owners of Lask filed suit against the community for the payment of the debts which had accumulated by the close of the 18^th century. In 1838 the Jews of the town were ordered, under threat of attachment of their property, to pay their debts with the addition of 7,697 zlotys as accrued interest. Following rapid economic development during the second quarter of the 19^th century, the Jews of Pabianice and Zdunska Wola set up their own communal organizations independent of Lask. The first known rabbi of the town was Israel b. Ithamar (d. 1726) who was succeeded by R. Meir b. Eliakim Goetz of Hildesheim. Subsequent rabbis were Phinehas Zelig (d. 1770), author of Ateret Paz (1768), Moses Judah Leib Zilberberg, author of Zayit Ra'anan (2 vols., 1851–69) and Tif'eret Yerushalayim, David Dov *Meisels (d. 1876), and his son Ẓevi Aryeh Judah (until 1932). The last rabbi of Lask was Leibel Ajzenberg, who died in the Chelmno extermination camp in 1942. From the second half of the 19^th century, most of the Jews of Lask were Ḥasidim (*Kotsk and *Warka). In 1897 there were 2,862 Jews in Lask (68% of the population). Jewish workers and craftsmen were influenced by the socialist movement. Zionist activities also started at the outbreak of World War I. In 1919 two of the 14 members of the municipal council were Jews. Between the two world wars, there were two Jewish libraries, a reformed ḥeder (founded in 1927), a Hebrew *Tarbut school, a *Beth Jacob school, and *Maccabi and Shtern sports societies. In 1921 there were 2,623 Jews in Lask. After the serious economic crisis of 1929, antisemitism became intensified and an economic boycott was imposed on the Jews.

My Lask Plays are hiatus until I get some better sounding recording equipment! Various uploads now accompanied by some poorly done Lask Plays segments! Linzer Athletik-Sport-Klub, commonly known as Linzer ASK (German pronunciation: lask lɪnts ) or simply LASK, is an Austrian professional football club, from the Upper-Austrian state capital Linz.It is the oldest football club in that region, and plays in the Austrian Football Bundesliga, the top tier of Austrian football.The club's colours are black and white. Linzer Athletik-Sport-Klub, commonly known as Linzer ASK (German pronunciation: lask lɪnts ) or simply LASK, is an Austrian professional football club, from the Upper-Austrian state capital Linz. It is the oldest football club in that region, and plays in the Austrian Football Bundesliga, the top tier of Austrian football.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

P. Selig, Ir Lask va-Ḥakhameha (1926); B. Wasiutyński, Ludność żydowska w Polsce w wiekach xix i xx (1930), 28, 51, 180, 185, 188, 210; I. Krasoń, Z dziejów Łasku (1965); Z. Tsurnamal (ed.), Lask Izcor-book (Heb., Yid., some Eng., 1968); D. Dąbrowska, in: BŻIH, 13–14 (1955); J. Goldberg et al., in: PKPolin.

Holocaust PeriodThe Germans invaded Lask on 7th of September 1939. Immediately they began to loot shops and brutally mistreat the Jewish residents; especially the Hasidim, who had their beards cut off in public. One of the first critically injured as a result of Nazi attacks was the son of a synagogue caretaker, murdered on the 18th of September.A systematic process of degradation and brutal assault was initiated. Synagogue officials were executed; the Beth Midrashwas converted into a slaughterhouse for horses; Jews were forced to perform degrading acts during the High Holidays. Lask was part of the area included within the Warthegau Plan. This was the plan for the forced removal of the indigenous Polish and Jewish populations, for their replacement with so called ‘Aryans’ and for the the full integration of this part of Poland into the Nazi State. This process of ethnic cleansing seems to have been linked to the tactic to dehumanise the Jewish community in the eyes of the German soldiers through authorised physical abuse of the Lask Jewish and Christiancommunity.In October the Nazis ordered the preparation of a list of the wealthiest Jews and Christians, these were then forced to pay special war tribute to the Nazis. A rabbi, in attempt to save the precious items from the synagogue, decided to hide them. The Nazis, forcing him to mention the hiding place, hung him upside down and cut his beard off. The rabbi’s wife, concerned for his life, showed them the hiding place.According to the national census of 1940, there were 3,366 Jewish people in Lask then. In the same year Germans established the Judenrat, and appointed Zelman Kochman its president.The Lask GhettoThe ghetto was established in several stages. At first the few streets were earmarked for limited Jewish habitation, but on Nov. 18, 1940, the Germans forced all the Jews of Lask into this covering the area of contemporary Zeromskiego, Zielona and Kilinskiego Streets. Jewish people were forbidden to go outside between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. Toward the end of 1941, the death penalty was imposed for anyone leaving the ghetto. From then on the food situation worsened considerably. The Judenrat organized a hospital, a kindergarten, and a soup kitchen. In mid-August 1942 the ghetto was liquidated. About 3,500 Jews were locked up in a church outside the city and were kept for several days under inhuman conditions; the Germans then picked out some 800 craftsmen to be sent to Lodz ghetto, while the rest were sent to the extermination camp at Chelmno.

Interior of the synagogue - which was used by the Nazis as a stable - after the Nazi destruction

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Jewish families sent in open top cattle trucks to the Chelmno Death Camp

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Listopada Plac (Square) during the Nazi Occupation

From The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War:'In 1941, some three thousand Jews had been deported into Dzialoszyce from Cracow, Warsaw, Lodz, Poznan and Lask. 'Hunger and starvation was the order of the day,' [Martin] Rosenblum recalled. 'People risked their lives for a few potatoes or a piece of bread'...Of the ten thousand Jews in Dzialoszyce on September 2 [1941], two thousand had been slaughtered in the mass graves outside of the town. The remaining eight thousand had been deported to Belzec and gassed.' 'At Lask, on August 24 [1942], the Jews were locked into a church. One woman gave birth to a baby. Both she and the newborn child were killed. Three Jews managed to escape. Of the rest, about eight hundred were sent to factories in the Lodz ghetto, more than two and a half thousand to Chelmno, where they were gassed.' 'Into the Lodz ghetto...were brought the remnants of the Jewish ghettos from a dozen small towns around Lodz, among them those from Lask and Zdunska Wola. 'Pale shadows trudge through the ghetto,' the chronicler noted on August 28 [1942], 'with endemic swellings on their legs and faces, people deformed and disfigured, whose only dream is to endure, survive -- to live to see a better tomorrow without new disturbances, even if the price is a small and inadequate ration.' This remnant of the Lask Jewish community suffered the same fate as the Jews in the Lodz ghetto. SourcesLask Yizkor BooksGilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War. New York: Henry Holt and Company Inc., 1985 Encyclopaedia Judaica. Jerusalem: Keter, 1971.