Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
BŻIH
Angaben zur Quelle:
187 (1998) 23-35
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
Abstract:
In the 1930s there were about 7,000 Jews in Ostrołęka (north of Warsaw) and its surroundings, about one third of the whole population. Describes events after the occupation of the town by the Nazis. In October 1939 this region was annexed to Germany. The Jews were driven out of the town. Some of them were taken to labor camps and some escaped to Vilna, Łomźa, Białystok and other localities occupied by the Soviets. Some remained in these localities and some were deported by the Soviets to Siberia. In June 1941 many of these towns were occupied by the Nazis. Ghettos were founded and thousands of Jews were killed; those who survived the "actions" were deported to Treblinka when the ghettos were liquidated in 1943. Traces the fate of several Jewish families from Ostrołęka whose members survived the war, mainly due to deportation to Siberia. Gołota interviewed them in Israel in the mid-1990s. Less than 8% of Ostrołęka's Jews survived the war.
Note:
On the fate of the Jews of Ostrołęka during the Second World War.
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