Klobuck is a small town, located in the southwest Silesian region of Poland, approximately 20 kilometers from the city of Czestochowa. For more than 200 years before World War II, Klobuck had a thriving Jewish community of about 500 families, consisting of nearly 2000 individuals. It was a market town, with a successful mercantile class of trades people, who had created thriving religious, educational, charitable, social and cultural institutions. On September 1, 1939, the first day of World War II, when the Nazis invaded western Poland, Klobuck was immediately over-run, torched and occupied....