Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
On September 28, 1939, one day after the agreement with the Soviets assigned the Lublin area to Germany, Heydrich spoke of a “Reichs-Ghetto” in the Lublin district. The plan to establish a Jewish “reservation” in that vicinity was part of a more comprehensive program to reorganize Eastern Europe along “racial” lines and to physically separate out and isolate the Jews. The program became operative in early October 1939. Eichmann visited Vienna, Moravaska Ostrava ( Mahrisch Ostrau) (in the Protectorate), and
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
Piotrkow Trybunalski is a town in central Poland, about 16 miles (26 km) south of Lodz. In 1939, there were some 18,000 Jews in Piotrkow, about one-third of the total population, with a vibrant community life.Piotrkow was occupied by the Germans on September 5, 1939, four days after the outbreak of World War II. Anti-Jewish excesses took place at once: brutal beatings, kidnappings for forced labor, and killings. Jewish valuables and household effects were plundered in large quantities. The Germans
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
On October 26, 1939, the German occupation authorities established a political administration known as the Generalgouvernement in the sector of occupied Poland that had not been annexed to the Reich. The name originated in World War I, during which the Germans also occupied Poland and established a civil regime under this title. The Generalgouvernement was divided into four districts:Warsaw, Cracow, Radom, and Lublin, each of which was parceled into subdistricts. The capital of the Generalgouvernement was Cracow. After the Germans
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