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The liquidation of the ghetto in Lublin (March–April 1942
Jakub Chmielewski
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Lublin Ghetto was the first near Lviv Ghetto which was liquidated as part of „Operation Reinhardt”. Before the Germans began to biological extermination, the Jews applied to a number of obligations and prohibitions, which were eliminated from the social, political, cultural, and lead to impoverishment. One method was a group of Jews in separate parts of the city, officially called ghettos. Not in every case the ghetto was fenced, which is often affected by the placement of routes. In Lublin, the Germans began to enclose with a fence a couple of weeks before the start of deportations to the extermination camp at Bełżec. The liquidation of the Lublin ghetto Germans began on the night of 16 to 17 March 1942, the Jewish quarter was surrounded by German troops and auxiliary units composed mainly of prisoners of the Soviet Army so-called Ukrainians. During the liquidation, which lasted until mid-April were sent to the Bełżec death camp about 28 000 Jews, and another 800 people were shot in the ghetto. In the process of the extermination, Germans joined the Jewish Police, the Judenrat, and even the inhabitants of the ghetto. Some Jews survived the liquidation of the Podzamcze district and was transferred to the newly created ghetto in Majdan Tatarski. Go there could only those who have held J-Ausweis. At the same time the Germans began the demolition of the historic Jewish quarter, which was symbolically end the centuries-old existence of Jews in Lublin. This article is based on the literature, published reports and diaries, as well as archival material deposited in the State Archive in Lublin, the Archives of the State Museum at Majdanek, the Archive of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and Yad Vashem Archive in Jerusalem.
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State Archives in Lublin, State Archives of the Museum at Majdanek, Archives of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem, extermination, ghetto, Lublin, Holocaust, Pozdamcze, BełżecMost read articles by the same author(s)
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