Ghetto Dębica

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The so-called Ghetto Dębica was a German assembly camp during the Second World War as part of their persecution of Jews (Shoah / Holocaust) . It was located on the northern outskirts of Dębica near the train station. It was built by the German occupiers of Poland on January 1, 1942, from the summer the people were deported to be murdered and the prisoners who were then still alive were liquidated and murdered from March 1, 1943. A total of 15,000 Jews lived in the Dębica area, 12,000 of whom were deported to the Belzec extermination camp in the summer of 1942 . The German extermination camp was part of the so-called Aktion Reinhardt of the NSDAP . There were also several forced labor camps in the village , including one for railroad work.

2200 Jews lived in Dębica alone, but many of the prisoners in the assembly camp also came from the surrounding towns. Several hundred people were brought here when the Rozwadow ghetto was dissolved.

Today a Jewish cemetery and a synagogue building are still preserved in the village. An electronics shop is operated in the former synagogue.

See also

literature

  • Irene Eber : I'm alone and afraid . A Jewish girl in Poland 1939–1945. Translated from the English by Reinhild Böhnke . Beck, Munich. 2007. 287 pages with 18 illustrations. and 1 card. ISBN 3406556523 (especially the 2nd chapter, pp. 42-70). Original English title: The Choice - Poland, 1939–1945. 2004. Schocken Books Inc., NY. 240 pp. ISBN 0805241973 (English).
  • Jozef Kermisz: "Akcie" i "Wysiedlenia". Documenty i materialy II. (German: "Action" and "Resettlement"). Warszawa, Łódź, Kraków, 1946. Edited by Centralna żydowska Komisja historyczna.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Debica - the Stettl" - commented image documentation with the description of the situation and the living conditions in the ghetto.
  2. ^ Frank Golczewski: Poland . In: Dimension of Genocide. The number of Jewish victims of National Socialism . Edited by Wolfgang Benz . Oldenbourg, Munich 1991, p. 454.
  3. ^ Frank Golczewski: Poland . In: Dimension of Genocide. The number of Jewish victims of National Socialism . Edited by Wolfgang Benz. Oldenbourg, Munich 1991, p. 466.
  4. ↑ The Jews in the County of Cracau ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org
  5. ↑ Rozwadow

Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 23 ″  N , 21 ° 24 ′ 14 ″  E