ill were rounded up and shot on the spot. The elderly were taken to the woods near Dukla and shot there. The rest were loaded on trains and sent to Belzec where they were murdered. The 400 or so Jews who survived the war were mostly those who fled to the Soviet Union when the Germans invaded though some were hidden locally by Christian acquaintances. The mass murder actions were typical of the fate of Jews in Polish towns and villages during the Holocaust except that many more of Rymanow's Jews survived than was typical. Articles Image Gallery Notable people Robert Biedroń (born 1976), politician and LGBT activist Menachem Mendel of Rimanov (1745–1815), Hasidic rebbe and author Józef Kanty Ossoliński (1707–1780), magnate in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988), winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics Israel Schorr (1886-1935), prominent hazzan Edith Schreiber-Aujame (1919-1998), architect Tomasz Wacek (born 1976), footballer See also Walddeutsche List of Hasidic dynasties Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Rimanov Rimenov (Hasidic dynasty) External links Official website of Rymanow Website of Rymanow Zdroj Rymanów References Notes Other early names of the town mentioned in various sources include: Ladisslaulia, Laslaw (1413),Reimannshau, Rymanów(1415), Rimanow (1423), Rymanów (1433) and Rimanowo'' (1485), source Prof. Adam Fastnacht - Slownik Historyczno-Geograficzny Ziemi Sanockiej w Sredniowieczu, Krakau 2002, Footnotes Shtetls Cities and towns in Podkarpackie Voivodeship Krosno County Nazi war crimes in Poland Holocaust locations in Poland it:Rymanów