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Izbica jako przykład getta tranzytowego 1942-1943

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Chmielewski J.
Kwartalnik Historii Żydow
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2012
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issue 2(242)
191-206
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The township of Izbica, situated some 60 kilometers from Lublin, had a population that was over 90% Jewish before World War II. In 1939 it found itself under Nazi occupation. From the beginning of the occupation, the German authorities sent trainloads of deportees from Germany, from Polish lands incorporated in the German Reich and from other Generalgouvernement localities to Izbica. The Germans exploited the town’s location by a railway line for establishing a transit ghetto there in 1942, from where Jews were shipped to extermination camps on Polish and foreign lands, in Bełżec and Sobibór. By the end of 1942, the Germans murdered most of the Jews kept in Izbica, replacing the transit ghetto with a secondary one. The final liquidation of the Jewish community in Izbica took place at the end of April 1943. Out of several thousand Izbica Jews, only fourteen survived the Nazi occupation.
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PERSECUTION AND EXTERMINATION OF JEWS UNDER NAZI RULE IN THE WARTHELAND (Przesladowania i zaglada Zydów pod rzadami nazistów w Kraju Warty)

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Gorczynska-Przybylowicz B.
Przegląd Zachodni
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2009
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issue 2(331)
77-89
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During the German occupation of Poland, the Wartheland played a distinctive role in the persecution and extermination of Jews. It is there that German Nazis developed methods of murdering people and built the first extermination camp in the history of humanity where they partly realized the process of the 'final solution of the local Jewish issue' even before the Wannsee conference, murdering there about two hundred thousand people. The remaining persons of Jewish origin from the area were murdered mostly at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. They were for the most part prisoners previously concentrated in the ghetto in Lódz. Until its close-down in 1944 the Lódz ghetto functioned as a peculiar kind of factory, operating according to the principles of a concentration camp with a large slave workforce whose labor was exploited both inside and outside the ghetto. Material evidence of the murderous exploitation of Jews during German occupation has remained even until today (e.g. in Poznan: the artificial lakes Rusalka and Malta, the cemetery at Milostowo, the communication routes to Berlin and the airport at Krzesiny). The above mentioned examples are manifestations of a brutal termination of many centuries of coexistence of Poles and Jews on this territory, a coexistence which was problematic but also based on partnership.
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THE LABOUR CAMP AT PONIATOWA 1941-1943 (Arbeitslager in Poniatowa 1941-1943)

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Podgórski A.
Kwartalnik Historii Żydow
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2010
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issue 4(236)
425-448
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In 1942, on the initiative of Odilo Globocnik, police and SS chief in Lublin district, it was decided to locate a German labour camp at the Tele- and Radiotechnical Works in Poniatowa. In the early stage, Jews from the ghettos in Opole Lubelskie and Belzyce were taken to the camp. Some inmates were Slovak or Austrian citizens, deported to Lublin district in 1941. In January 1943, Walther Többens agreed to move his textile shops from Warsaw ghetto to Poniatowa and he was named commissioner in charge of the deportation of the Warsaw ghetto and transfer of arms plants to Lublin district. Between eight and ten thousand Jews (families with children) were transported from Warsaw to Poniatowa, among them a group of distinguished Warsaw actors, musicians, doctors, political leaders and Judenrat members. The camp lacked a uniform organizational structure. There were differences in living conditions between the so-called housing project, where privileged inmates lived, and the rest of the camp. There were attempts to organize cultural activities in the camp, a kindergarten was set up and football games were played. In the summer of 1943, the inmates were divided into two categories following a conflict between the camp's new commander and the owner of the plant. The inmates numbered up to 10000 worked in Többens's factory. The remaining ones worked in establishments ran by SS. On 4 November 1943, the Jewish inmates of the Poniatowa camp were killed in an execution codenamed ‘Erntefest' (‘Harvest Home Festival'). The death toll was some 14,800 adults and 800 children, with only ten-odd inmates surviving the execution.
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