Photos

Survivors and Memorials

• Memorial to the Jews of Lask who perished during World War II

Survivors from Lask who immigrated after World War II to the U.S. established a survivors' group in New York. The photo is of the monument they erected to commemorate Lask Jews who were murdered by the Nazis.

• A monument memorializing the murdered Jews of Lask

Lask survivors now living in Israel brought back soil and ashes from the murder sites in Lask and Chelmno. The samples were buried under this monument as a symbolic burial of the victims.

• Survivors visit the Jewish Cemetery of Lask

This cemetery was desecrated and destroyed during the Holocaust. Most tombstones were removed and used for paving Lask streets. However, a few tombstones may still be found in their original location.

Approximately 40,000 Polish children were imprisoned in the camp before being transferred to Germany during the "Heuaktion" (Hay Action). The blond boy at the lower right may be Kalman Cylberszac (born 1934), the son of Rachel and Nachum Cylberszac from Lask.

The Town

• Jews in front of the synagogue building in Lask before World War II. 

  During World War II, the Nazis converted the synagogue to a horse stable. After the war it became a fire brigade station.

   

• The "Tarbut" Hebrew school at Lask, established in 1931.

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