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The Holocaust In Dukla

"Dwie narracje Holokaustu w Dukli i okolicach, oczyma PolakoĢw i Zydow" ["Two narratives of the Holocaust in Dukla and the surrounding area, through the eyes of Poles and Jews"] - by Jacek Koszczan

Jacek Koszczan of Sztetl Dukla has authored an outstanding article on the experiences and fate of Dukla's Jewish Community during the Holocaust. Originally published in Polish in the journal Wielokulturowe Dziedzictwo Euroregionu Karpackiego Na Przestrzeni Wiekow [Multicultural Heritage of the Carpathian Euroregion Over the Centuries] (edited by Joanna Potaczek), Rzeszow, 2020, ISBN: 978-83-945814-4-2, at pgs. 56-75. An English translation is presented here with the kind permission of the author. Click Here

"The Last Days of the Dukla Jewish Community" - by William Leibner Click Here


The 'Palace' Courtyard, The Barwinek Killing Ground, The Iwonicz Train Station, The Belzec Death Camp-Photographs


The courtyard in front of the Dukla "Palace" [now a history museum] where Dukla's Jews were forced to assemble on August 13, 1942, the day of their destruction. The Palace Courtyard

Close-up of the memorial at the mass-murder site in the Barwinek woods where 300 Dukla Jews and 200 Jews from Rymanov were shot on August 13, 1942. Front of the Dukla Palace

Another view of the Barwinek woods'murder site. The mass burial trench lies underneath the area surrounded by the brick perimeter.
Another view of the Barwinek woods

The Targowiska train station in Iwonicz as it appears in present day. From here, on August 13, 1942, 2000 Dukla Jews were loaded into freight cars to be taken to the Belzec death camp. The Targowiska Train Station

The train tracks leading North, upon which most of the Jews of Dukla were sent off to be murdered at Belzec. Train Tracks Leading North

Part of the present day memorial found at the site where the Belzec death camp had been located.
Present Day Memorial



Memorials to the Dukla Jewish Community Destroyed During the Holocaust


The Memorial at the Dukla Jewish Cemeteries

Located at the entrance to the Jewish Cemeteries in Dukla stands a memorial to Dukla's lost Jewish Community. Sponsored by Sztetl Dukla and others in Dukla, with additional financial support from descendants of Dukla Jews in Israel and the United States, the memorial was commissioned in 2012, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the destruction of the Dukla Jewish Community.

The unveiling of the monument's memorial plaque in September 2012 (seen resting on a temporary wooden support, awaiting arrival of the permanent stonework). As pictured on the cover of a local Dukla publication (shown are Daniel Altholz, one of the oldest surviving Jews to have originally grown up in Dukla (left) and Jacek Koszczan of Sztetl Dukla (right.)
As pictured on the cover of a local Dukla publication (shown are Daniel Altholz, one of the oldest surviving Jews to have originally grown up in Dukla (left) and Jacek Koszczan of Sztetl Dukla (right.)

A closeup of the memorial plaque. Closeup of the Memorial

The completed memorial in April 2013, after the arrival and erection of the permanent stonework.
Completed Memorial in April 2013


The Dukla Memorial at Holon Cemetery
In Holon, Israel stands a cemetery with individual memorials to many of the Jewish communities liquidated during World War II.

The memorial to the Dukla community includes the names of the last four Rabbis of Dukla, as well as the names of some of the Jews from Dukla who perished in the Shoah. (Photo courtesy of Robert Szczepanik.)
memorial to the Dukla community



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