Kielce Ghetto
The Jewish residential district set up by the National Socialists , often also ghetto Kielce , was a collection camp set up in Kielce in the east of the country during the German occupation of Poland . The assembly camps / ghettos at the time of National Socialism were part of the concentration camp system . Kielce was occupied by the Wehrmacht on September 4, 1939 . 24,000 people in Kielce, i.e. about a third of the population, were of the Jewish faith even before the occupation .
The Jewish Residential District was established on March 31, 1941 and consisted of two parts: the part called Big Ghetto within Orla, Piotrkowska, Nowowarszawska, Pocieszki and Radomska streets, and the smaller part between St. Wojciech Square, Bodzentyńska and Radomska Street. In addition to the 27,000 Jews interned there, there were also 1,004 Jews who had been deported from Vienna-Aspangbahn train station on February 19, 1941 .
In August 1944 the Jewish residential area, the ghetto, was closed and the prisoners were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp , to Częstochowa ( HASAG works) and to the Buchenwald concentration camp .
literature
- Sara Bender: The Jews in Kielce and the Vicinity during the Second World War and the Holocaust und The Białystok and Kielce ghettos: a comparative study , 2001 (published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum )
- Sara Bender: The Jews of Chmielnik under German occupation (1939-1943). In: Christoph Dieckmann, Babette Quinkert (ed.): In the Ghetto 1939 - 1945: New research on everyday life and the environment. Wallstein, 2012. See Kielce on p. 85.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kielce at Wirtualny Sztetl
- ↑ deathcamps.org: Ghetto Kielce
- ^ Sara Bender , website at USHMM
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 23 " N , 20 ° 37 ′ 54" E