Partial List of Murdered Jews of Przemysl, 1939

The list was published in 55 dni Wehrmachtu w Polsce (55 days of Wehrmacht in Poland), by Szymon Datner, Warsaw, 1967 (p.p. 400-401). The names quoted by Dr. Datner come from the stones covering a mass grave at the Jewish cemetery in Przemysl.

The first arrests and executions of the Jews in Przemysl took place on Sept. 16 - 19 1939. A number of 102 killed is often quoted but some sources, including the Przemysl Yizkor Book, report that as many as 600 Jews were killed at that time. The locations where the executions took place include Przekopana, Lipowica, Pralkowce, Pikulice. The bodies have been exhumed and moved into a mass grave at the Jewish cemetery on Slowackiego street. A memorial plaque was recently unvailed at the cemetery, listing 102 names.

For more information, see Outline of Jewish History (scroll down to September 1939) and Brief History of the Holocaust in Przemysl. See also the Przemysl Yizkor Book Translation Project for an additional list of names of those killed in September 1939 (go to Part V, Shoah and Destruction, Chapter One).

The above list is being published with permission of Helena Datner, daughter of the late Professor Szymon Datner.