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Members of the ghetto administration sit around a table in the office of the Judenrat in the Kielce ghetto.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 03288
Members of the ghetto administration sit around a table in the office of the Judenrat in the Kielce ghetto. This photo was one the images included in an official album prepared by the Judenrat of the Kielce ghetto in 1942.

Members of the ghetto administration sit around a table in the office of the Judenrat in the Kielce ghetto.

This photo was one the images included in an official album prepared by the Judenrat of the Kielce ghetto in 1942.

Date
1942 January 01
Locale
Kielce, [Kielce] Poland
Variant Locale
Keltsy
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- KIELCE
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Rafal Imbro

About This Photograph

Event History
Kielce was captured by the Germans on September 4, 1939. Immediately afterwards the Jewish community was beset by beatings, killings, hostage takings, round-ups for forced labor, expropriations and fines. Within the first weeks of the occupation the Germans set up a Jewish Council and named Dr. Moses Pelc as its chairman. A ghetto was not officially established until the beginning of April 1941. When Pelc refused to execute German directives, he was deported to Auschwitz and replaced with the industrialist Hermann Levy. Levy served as chairman until the liquidation of the ghetto in August 1942. An estimated 24,000 Jews lived in Kielce at the outbreak of the war. After the establishment of the ghetto, approximately 1,000 Jews from Vienna were transferred to Kielce and several thousand more from the areas of Poznan and Lodz, swelling the ghetto population to 27,000 by the end of 1941. The final liquidation of the ghetto, directed by SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Ernst Karl Thomas and Hauptmann Hans Geier, was carried out between August 20-24, 1942. Those who were rounded-up were deported to Treblinka. Approximately 2,000 able-bodied Jews were spared and placed in three labor camps in Kielce: HASAG-Granat, Henrykow and Ludwikow.

See https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005300.
See Also "Kielce" in Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos Volume 2 Part A.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Rafal Imbro
Source Record ID: Kielce Album
 
Record last modified: 2002-08-19 00:00:00
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