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Facts at a Glance
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Piotrkow ghetto established on October 8,
1939, the first in Nazi-occupied Poland. |
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Ghetto inhabitants: approximately 25,000. |
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Deportations: primarily Treblinka death camp
(22,000); also Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Mauthausen and Ravensbrück. |
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Survivors: approximately 1,400, most of whom emigrated to
Palestine in the Breicha. |
See photos and maps of Holocaust in Piotrkow Trybunalski,
including pre-war and post-war Jewish life, at the Piotrkow
Trybunalski Yizkor Book Project.
See photos of post-war Jewish life at the Piotrkow
Trybunalski Yizkor Book Project. Includes:
| Register of Survivors in Piotrkow just after liberation -- beginning of
1945 only, from Register of Jewish Survivors: Lists of Jews Rescued in
Different European Countries, published in Jerusalem, 1945. |
| Exhumation of the
"Rakow Kedoshim" after the war, from the Rakow Forest to
"Kewer Achim" in the cemetery. |
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