Zamosc ghetto

The Zamość ghetto was a camp known as a ghetto in Zamość in the Lublin district of the then General Government of Poland. It existed from spring 1941 to mid-October 1942.

Zamość

Zamość was a province in eastern Poland and part of the Lublin Voivodeship until World War II . The area comprised more than 1660 villages with 510,000 inhabitants. The Jews seldom lived as peasants on farms, but mainly in smaller towns and in the provincial capital Zamość; they made up the majority of the population there.

Immediately after the occupation of Poland , Jews were used for forced labor . At the beginning of December 1939, the Gestapo ordered the formation of a Jewish council for the city of Zamość, which consisted of twelve members. The chairman was Ben-Zion Lubliner, who was replaced in January 1940 by the lawyer Mieczyslaw Garfinkel. Many Jews had fled to Russia before the German occupation. The Germans in turn deported Jews from the Wartheland, among others . In 1940 4,000 Jews came from Zamosc, another 1,000 came from abroad.

ghetto

In the spring of 1941, the Jews were concentrated in a run-down city district. The move should be completed on April 1, 1941. According to the count of the Judenrat, 7,000 Jews lived in the ghetto. It was not fenced in, but leaving was limited to certain times.

On April 1, 1942, Jews were first transported to the Bełżec extermination camp as part of Aktion Reinhardt ; on April 11th, 3,000 Jews were transported there.

On May 1, 1942, around 1,000 Jews from the Arnsberg administrative district were deported from the Hagen freight yard via a Gestapo assembly camp at the Dortmund Süd train station to the Zamosc ghetto.

The ghetto was liquidated between October 16 and 18, 1942.

Transit camp

On November 12, 1942, the Zamość area was declared the "First Settlement Area" of the General Government. The Polish inhabitants of around 300 villages were "evacuated" and deported. The abandoned ghetto was partially used as a transit camp.

See also

• List of ghettos during the National Socialist era

Web links

• deathcamps.org
• Holocaust Research Project
• List of people

Individual evidence

1. ^ Israel Gutman et al. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Munich and Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-492-22700-7 , p. 1621.
2. ↑ deathcamps
3. ↑ Klaus-Peter Friedrich (edit.): The persecution and murder of the European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (source collection), Volume 9: Poland: Generalgouvernement August 1941–1945 , Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71530 -9 , p. 253 with note 13
4. ↑ http://www.historisches-centrum.de/index.php?id=177
5. ^ Israel Gutman et al. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Holocaust . Munich and Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-492-22700-7 , p. 1621.