Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto

Call for a statement of assets, Judenrat, March 1940

Ghetto memorial plaque in Piotrków Trybunalski

The Piotrków Trybunalski ghetto (in German: Jewish residential district Petrikau) was the first Nazi assembly camp built in occupied Poland on October 8, 1939 in Piotrków Trybunalski as part of the extermination of the Jews, with around 25,000 inhabitants imprisoned there in a confined space. Of the prisoners about 22,000 were either on site by in October 1942 Einsatzgruppe murdered or to the Treblinka extermination camp as Jews deported and murdered. Around 3,000 were sent to forced labor camps run by the Todt Organization .

See also

• History of the Jews in Poland
• Treblinka concentration camp

Web links

• Yad Vashem: Ghetto Piotrków Trybunalski
• deathcamps.org: Piotrkow Trybunalski Ghetto

literature

• Documents concerning the destruction of the Jews of Grodno 1941-1944. Ed: The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation. New York, 6 volumes & 1 result volume (Volume 6 was published in 1991)
• Piotrków Trybunalski , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009, ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , pp. 592-596.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ deathcamps.org: Ghetto Piotrków Trybunalski (The document does not name places and times in detail.)

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 28.9 ″  N , 19 ° 42 ′ 0.2 ″  E