WWII - Holocaust - jewish ghettos

güttsfükk · #21 ● 04-01-2009, 12:43 AM

Włodawa (variant: Wlodowa) is a town in eastern Poland on the Bug river, close to the borders with Belarus and Ukraine. It has 14,800 inhabitants (2001).

Situated in the Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999). It is the capital of Włodawa County.

Although no Jews are known to live in the town today, Wlodawa was over 70% Jewish before WWII and the Holocaust. Situated next to the Sobibór Concentration and Death Camp, Wlodawa's Jews were mostly rounded up and killed by German Nazis in Sobibor or one of its arbeitslagers (workcamps) such as Adampol. On the road to Wlodawa there is a memorial to the Jews from Wlodawa who were killed at Adampol. The handsome, Baroque, Wlodawa Synagogue survives.

güttsfükk · #22 ● 04-01-2009, 12:45 AM

Kraśnik is a town in eastern Poland with 37,989 inhabitants (2003), situated in the Lublin Voivodeship. It is the seat of Kraśnik County.

During the war, Kraśnik was the site of the Budzyn labor camp, where the prisoners worked for the Hermann Göring Werke on aircraft production. This camp, with around 3,000 Jews, became a subcamp of Majdanek; 300 workers who remained until July 1944 survived. Virtually all left the area, and there are few if any Jews currently resident in the town.

güttsfükk · #23 ● 04-01-2009, 12:47 AM

Ćmielów is a town in Ostrowiec County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland, seat of Gmina Ćmielów. It has 3,222 inhabitants (2004). It is known for one of Poland's oldest porcelain factories dating back to 1790.

A Jewish youth peers out the window of a soup kitchen in the Cmielow ghetto

güttsfükk · #24 ● 04-01-2009, 12:50 AM

Bełżyce is a town in eastern Poland, in the Lublin Voivodeship, in Lublin County, and about 20 km to the west of the city of Lublin.

During the German occupation in Second World War 3500 residents of the city were killed or otherwise disappeared, a full 60 % of the population. Many, mostly Jewish, victims of the Majdanek Nazi concentration and extermination camp are buried at the Bełżyce cemetery.

güttsfükk · #25 ● 04-01-2009, 12:56 AM

Hrubieszów is a town in southeastern Poland, with a population of 18,661 (2004). It is the capital of Hrubieszów County.

During the Second World War the region witnessed the Zamość Uprising; many inhabitants, including the 7,000 inhabitants of the town's Jewish ghetto, were killed during the war.

A religious Jew in Hrubieszow endures the humiliation of having his beard cut off

güttsfükk · #26 ● 04-01-2009, 01:00 AM

Szczebrzeszyn is a city in southeastern Poland in Lublin Voivodeship, in Zamość County, about 20 km west of Zamość. From 1975–1999, it was part of the Zamość Voivodeship administrative district. The town serves as the seat to Gmina Szczebrzeszyn. A 2004 census counted 5,357 inhabitants. It lends its name to the Szczebrzeszyn Landscape Park.

güttsfükk · #27 ● 04-01-2009, 01:03 AM

Biłgoraj is a town in south-eastern Poland with 27,000 inhabitants (2003). Since 1999 it has been situated in Lublin Voivodeship; it was previously in Zamość Voivodeship (1975-1998).

güttsfükk · #28 ● 04-01-2009, 01:07 AM

Biała Podlaska is a town in eastern Poland with 58,047 inhabitants (2005).

It is situated in the Lublin Voivodeship (since 1999), having previously been the capital of Biała Podlaska Voivodeship (1975-1998). It is the capital of Biała Podlaska County.

Biała Podlaska was liberated by the Red Army on 26 July, 1944. Of the more than 6,000 Jewish residents of the town in 1939, only 300 remained alive at the war’s end, and most of them left Poland in the years after the war.