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German authorities established a ghetto in Kolbuszowa, southeastern Poland, in 1941. On June 24 or 25, 1942, its Jewish population was forced to march about 35 kilometers to the Rzeszów ghetto. Most were later deported to the Bełżec killing center, while some were sent to the Jasionka labor camp. Women from the Saleschütz family were among those deported to Bełżec in July 1942. The Rzeszów ghetto was subjected to deportations beginning that month and was finally liquidated in November 1942.

The photographs date from 1929 through 1941 and largely come from the family collection of Naftali Saleschütz, later known as Norman Salsitz. They include portraits of relatives and young Jewish residents, synagogue scenes and occupation-era images of people wearing armbands. Other photographs show forced labor, Jewish police posed for propaganda, a German soldier mock-preaching from a synagogue bimah, Rabbi Chaim Sussman being forced to remove his clothing and Moiszele Horowitz digging graves for Jews shot by German forces.

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the synagogue from the outside, and it's ceiling

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Rzeszów (Ukrainian: Ряшiв, German: Reichshof (1941-45), Latin: Resovia, Yiddish: ריישע-Reisha) is a city in south-eastern Poland with a population of 171,330 inhabitants, as of 30.06.2008. It was granted a town charter in 1354, the capital and largest city of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously of Rzeszów Voivodeship (1945–1998).
Rzeszów is served by an international airport, is a member of Eurocities, and is home to a number of higher education schools, company headquarters, and foreign consulates.


Until on the outbreak of World War II the Jews of Rzeszów numbered 15,000, more than one-third of the total population. The town was occupied by the German Army on 10 September 1939. German persecution of the Jews began almost immediately, by the end of 1939, there were 10 forced labour camps in the Rzeszów region and many Jews became slave labourers in the region. Jews were forced to live in the Gestapo-controlled ghetto. Many Jews managed to flee to Soviet occupied Poland. By June 1940, the number of Jews in Rzeszów had decreased to 11,800, of whom 7,800 were pre-war residents of the city, the rest were refugees from surrounding villages. Life in the ghetto was impossible and hundreds died. During WWII some 20,000 Jews were murdered in the ghetto in Rzeszów. This number includes thousands who were sent to Rzeszów only to be deported or murdered soon after arrival. Of 15,000 Rzeszów Jews, merely 100 survived the war; in Rzeszów itself, in hiding all over Poland, and in various camps. After the war an additional 600 Rzeszów Jews returned from the Soviet Union. Almost all of them subsequently left the city and the country.

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Keep 'em coming! Very cool! However, old men's jewish beards do annoy the hell out of me... I hope that statement doesn't offend anyone browsing this thread... Well, actually I do - life will suddenly be more interesting...

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i just love the pic of the nazi in the synagogue