Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto

Coordinates: 52°10′45″N 21°34′20″E / 52.1792°N 21.5721°E / 52.1792; 21.5721
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Not to be confused with Minsk Ghetto in the capital of the Belorussian SSR.
Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto
Treblinka extermination camp
museum
Mińsk
Mińsk
Mińsk location south of
Treblinka in World War II
Also known asMińsk Ghetto
LocationMińsk Mazowiecki, German-occupied Poland
Date25 Oct 1940 – 21 Aug 1942 [1]
Incident typeImprisonment, starvation, mass shooting
OrganizationsNazi SS
Victims7,000 Polish Jews
Survivors250
MemorialsThe Jewish cemetery in Mińsk

The Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto or the Mińsk Ghetto (

SS in the streets of Mińsk Mazowiecki.[2]

History

Further information:
Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland

Following the September 1939 Nazi-Soviet

Polish Righteous were Helena and Julian Grobelny, President of Żegota, who harbored over a dozen Jewish activists in their home nearby.[7] There were also Christian Poles executed by the SS under the charge of aiding Jews.[5]

Ghetto resistance

Memorial to the Holocaust victims at the Jewish cemetery in Mińsk

The underground resistance formed in the ghetto in mid 1941 and began planning an escape to freedom. Donations were collected for the purpose of buying weapons. A Jewish fund-raising was organized in June and July 1942.

Treblinka on the following day. Most of the remaining 1,000 to 1,300 Jews (many attempting to hide)[1] were shot at various locations around town,[2] along with all members of the Judenrat including its president Mosze Kramarz, his deputy Majer Bryks, as well as Jankiel Popowski, Hil Morgensztern, Mosze Wajnberg, Mr. Bressler, Mr. Słoń, Mr. Sztutman and others murdered behind the SS building on 35 Warszawska street.[5] Several hundred men were allowed to live and split into prisoner work battalions, temporarily. The first group composed of 150 men was placed at the prewar iron foundry K. Rudzki i S-ka taken over by the Nazis, which was located at 55 Piłsudskiego street. The second group of around 500 men was moved to the premises of the Public School Nr 1 at 39 Siennicka street,[5] as the work force for German company Wolf & Goebel.[1]

German announcement in Mińsk, prohibiting Jews from venturing outside the ghetto specified area. Signed by Kreishauptmann Bittrich on 12 December 1941.

The final wave of mass shootings began several months later. A large group of Jews from the school building (renamed Camp Kopernikus) were transported to the Jewish cemetery on 24 December 1942 and murdered there; those who remained (around 250

ghetto was no more.[5] An underground resistance movement developed in Mińsk,[8] and later the Polish Home Army (AK) got a chance to retaliate. On 22 July 1943 the Gestapo chief Schmidt was ambushed and shot by the partisans.[9]

At the end of the German occupation of Poland, Mińsk Mazowiecki was liberated not by the advancing Red Army, but by the Polish soldiers of the

AK who entered the town ahead of them.[9] Although 250 Jews of Mińsk are known to have survived – many of them saved by the Polish families on the "Aryan" side of the city (including those who managed to escape Treblinka deportations), the prewar Jewish community was effectively wiped out in Mińsk during the Holocaust. There was no-one, and nothing to go back to, after the war ended.[1] The community, which had thrived since 1768, ceased to exist entirely. It has not been re-established.[5]

Notable individuals

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Alicja Gontarek, historian of the „Biuletyn Gminy Wyznaniowej Żydowskiej w Warszawie” (2014). "On the 70th Anniversary of the Eradication of Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto" [W 70. rocznicę zagłady mińskiego getta]. Wojna, Getto, Zagłada. Tygodnik Strefa Mińsk.pl weekly, Jarosław Rosłoniec (Mińsk official website). Archived from the original on October 27, 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2014 – via Internet Archive.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ a b c d Justyna Laskowska, Krzysztof Bielawski (2014). "Getto w Mińsku Mazowieckim". Miejsca martyrologii - Zabytki: Mińsk Mazowiecki. Wirtualny Sztetl (Virtual Shtetl), Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich. Retrieved 12 May 2014. Stłoczono w nim [w Mińsku Mazowieckim] około siedmiu tysięcy osób [7 000], w tym także przesiedleńców z Kałuszyna, Kalisza, Lipna, Pabianic.
  3. ^
    Museum of the History of the Polish Jews  (in English), as well as "Getta Żydowskie," by Gedeon,  (in Polish) and "Ghetto List"
    by Michael Peters at Deathcamps.org (in English). Accessed 23 April 2014.
  4. ^ a b Justyna Laskowska (trans. Katarzyna Majdan) (2014). "Mińsk Mazowiecki". History - Jewish community. Virtual Shtetl. pp. 6 of 6. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Małgorzata Frąckowiak & K. Bielawski (2014). "Gmina żydowska dla Mińska Mazowieckiego". Cmentarz żydowski w Mińsku Mazowieckim. Kirkuty.xip.pl. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  6. ^
    ISSN 0084-3296
    . Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  7. ^ Irena 'Jolanta' Sendlerowa, Julian Grobelny i jego żona Helena, FKCh "ZNAK" – 1999–2008. Internet Archive.
  8. ^ U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Jewish Resistance in Ghettos and Camps". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  9. ^ a b "The history of Mińsk Mazowiecki". Polsko-Amerykańska Fundacja Wolnosci (in Polish). Polski Portal Edukacyjny "Interkl@sa". Retrieved 12 May 2014.

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