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Lubaczów, Poland
50° 10' N/ 23° 08' E
Remembering the Jews of Lubaczow
Other names: Libatchov, Libechuyv, Liubachev, Lubachov, Lubatchov, Lubichuv

Holocaust
 
  Keep Yelling!
 by Maurie Hoffman

The book "Keep Yelling" written by Maurie Hoffman, has helped me understand many of the events that took place in Lubaczów during the Holocaust. Maurie Hoffman was born in 1929 in Lubaczów, and experienced the extermination of the Lubaczów ghetto in January 1943. He later joined the partisans. His story of survival is incredible.


WAR EVENTS

Here is a short summary, in the form of a timetable, that is based on three different sources (Pinkas Hakehillot, Maurie Hoffmann, and an elderly gentleman in Lubaczów). I hope to improve the timetable, and make it more detailed in the near future, including the different deportations to Belzec. Please correct and add information.
September 1st 1939
The Germans attacked Poland.
September 7th 1939
Lubaczów was bombed by German planes. Fighting around Lubaczów. The Polish Army retreated to the east, to Lwow.
September 12th 1939
The Germans occupied Lubaczów.
September 26th 1939
The Red Army occupied Lubaczów. According to the Soviet German agreement, Poland was divided and Lubaczów became part of the Soviet territories.
September 26th 1939 untill June 22th 1941
The Russians ruled in Lubaczów.
June 22th 1941
The German Army occupied Lubaczów for the second time after heavy fighting with the Red Army.
April 1942
There were 2,270 Jews in Lubaczów.
May 1942
Another 2,000 Jews were brought to Lubaczów from the surrounding villages.
October 1942
The Germans ordered that a Jewish Ghetto should be established in Lubaczów. Within forty-eight hours the Jews were overcrowded within the ghetto. Shortly after that began the first transport of Jews from Lubaczów to Belzec.
After Sukkot 1942
Jews from Niemerow and Potilitz were brought to Lubaczów.
November 1942
The Jews from Olescyze were brought to Lubaczów — possibly close to two thousand persons.
At the end of December 1942
The Germans promised there would be no further killing of Jews in Lubaczów, because most of those who were still there, were now working for the Germans.
January 5th 1943
A great snowstorm with very low temperatures. The Germans collected all finished and unfinished items from the Jewish tailors and shoemakers. A rumor spread that the Germans would kill all the Jews. Whoever could, fled the ghetto that night.
January 6th 1943
Around eight o'clock in the morning the final mass murder of the Jews in Lubaczów started. According to Maurie Hoffman the killings continued at least untill January 14, 1943. Some were killed when found in their underground secret bunkers. Others were brought to the Jewish cemetery where an estimated 1,200 Jews were killed and buried in a mass grave. Some were sent to Belzec. The very few Jews who survived did so by fleeing into the forests and joining the partisans.
July 21st 1944
The Germans withdrew. The Red Army occupied Lubaczów.

Memorial List for Victims (Yizkor List)

In the early 1950's the Lubaczówer Landsmannchaft in Israel made a memorial list for Jews killed in Lubaczów during the Holocaust. Their members were able to write down the names of around 860 of the victims.

A few years ago I translated the original list (written in Hebrew) back into Latin letters and published the Memorial List (YIZKOR LIST) on JewishGen.

Brunner & Haber Families

Brunner Family

Haber Family


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