Grebow, Lutowiska, Mielec and Rozwadow are communities closely associated with our Garfinkel ancestors in the nineteenth centuries and are mentioned in documents we have been able to obtain and in memories of  family who had lived there. They were all in the former autonomous Kingdom of the Austro-Hungarian Empire known as Galicia. All had Jewish communities at the time.

Rozwadow today is a suburb of the Polish town of Stalowa Lowa in the Southeast corner of todays Poland near the Ukrainian border. Prior to the Shoa Rozwadow had a shtetl with an orthodox Jewish community. The shtetl thrived because of its close association with other shtetlach nearby including those in Grebow, a small village about eight miles southwest of Rozwadow, and the city of Mielec (less than 30 miles to the southwest). All three locations are closely associated with our Garfinkel/Garfunkel families. Also associated with our family is Lutowiska, a village at the Ukrainian border approximately 120 miles to the south in the Carpathian mountains.

Family memories from the children of Benjamin and Rose Erhlich Garfinkel place the family in Rozwadow before the family emigrated in 1912-1913. Some surviving records of their children show them born in Mielec. Rose Ehrlich, according to recorded family memories of her children was born in Lutowiska.