Language:
German
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Theresienstädter Studien und Dokumente
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2003) 321-351
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Izbica Lubelska (Poland)
Abstract:
Between March-November 1942, the Izbica ghetto served as a transit site for thousands of Polish, Czech, German, and Austrian Jews prior to their deportation to the death camps of Bełżec and Sobibór. In 1941 ca. 7,000 Jews were living in the town under very poor residential and catastrophic hygienic conditions. The first transport, with ca. 2,000 Jews, reached Izbica from Theresienstadt on 19 March 1942. Until June 1942, 18,000 Jews were deported to Izbica, and from there to Belżec and Sobibór. Besides the difficulties of living in inhumane conditions, a conflict of culture developed between the different population groups, especially between Orthodox Polish Jews and secular Czech Jewish intellectuals. The Nazis exploited the situation and created two "Judenräte". States that the reason for the establishment of transit ghettos like Izbica lay in the fact that Sobibór and Bełżec were not yet ready to accept large transports for extermination.
Note:
Translated from the Czech, which was translated from Polish.
,
Another version, translated from the Polish, appeared as "Die letzte Station vor der Vernichtung; das Durchgangsghetto in Izbica" in "Deutsche - Juden - Polen" (2004) 157-179.
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