Lost Podjazd Family of Poland

My great grandfather was a Podjazd before he went to America. He changed his name upon arrival to Marcus, and so, apparently, did some of his relatives.

Ciechanow, Poland, today

Searching Jewish genealogy websites with records from Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe, it appears that Podjazd was a family that lived in Ciechanow for over a hundred years. Probably much longer, because Jews had lived in the town for centuries, but records are scarce before 1800 and even so, Jews only recently started using surnames at around that point.

In my research, the only Podjazds living outside of Ciechanow were documented as living in the ghettos of Warsaw and Vilnius during World War II--but they could easily have been relocated there from Ciechanow before finally being moved to concentration camps. A handful of Podjazds show up in records of victims of the Holocaust, some having died in Warsaw and some at Treblinka. Based on my reading, I found that Jews from Ciechanow also ended up in Auschwitz.

The bottom line is that there appear to have been only a small number of Podjazds ever, which in a way makes it easier to research and document. I'm going to try to find out as much as I can about each of them, which in most cases will be very little beyond their name.