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Jews are led through the streets of the town on their way to the railroad station during a deportation action from the Siedlce ghetto.

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    Jews are led through the streets of the town on their way to the railroad station during a deportation action from the Siedlce ghetto.
    Jews are led through the streets of the town on their way to the railroad station during a deportation action from the Siedlce ghetto.

One of a series of clandestine photographs taken by a member of the AK (Polish Home Army) underground.

    Overview

    Caption
    Jews are led through the streets of the town on their way to the railroad station during a deportation action from the Siedlce ghetto.

    One of a series of clandestine photographs taken by a member of the AK (Polish Home Army) underground.
    Date
    1942 August 22 - 1942 August 24
    Locale
    Siedlce, [Lublin] Poland
    Variant Locale
    Sedlets
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Instytut Pamieci Narodowej
    Event History
    In 1939 approximately 15,000 Jews lived in Siedlce. German troops occupied the city on September 11, 1939 and immediately began to take repressive measures against the Jews, including the imposition of heavy fines. On December 24 the main synagogue was burned down. In 1940 about 1,000 Jews were resettled in Siedlce from Lodz, Kalisz and Pabianice, when those cities were incorporated into the Reich. A three-day action was unleashed against the Jews of Siedlce in March 1941. That August a formal ghetto was established. In January 1942 another heavy fine was imposed on the community. Eight months later, on August 22-24, 1942, the ghetto was liquidated and 10,000 Jews were deported to Treblinka. Only 2,000 remained in the small ghetto until it, too, was liquidated on November 25. During the deportations hundreds of Jews fled to the forests, where they formed small partisan units. The majority of them, however, were killed during the winter of 1942-43.

    https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005193

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    Photo Source
    Instytut Pamieci Narodowej
    Copyright: Agency Agreement
    Provenance: Isaak Halber

    Keywords & Subjects

    Photo Designation
    GHETTOS (MINOR) -- (S)
    Record last modified:
    2001-09-04 00:00:00
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