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Only forty Jews had survived the liquidation of the Lubartów Ghetto. Some of them were rescued by the Poles, others hid in the forests. Josek Honiksblum and his wife Bluma survived hidden by the Czekański family in their home at Lipowa 3 Street. Dora Wajnbert with her sister Noma and her one-and-a-half year old baby were rescued by Jan Sienkiewicz living at Legionów 55 Street. Among the Jews who escaped the mass murder thanks to their Christian neighbours were Berek Tunkielszwarc, Doba Apfeld, Szloma and Dawid Cyngiel, Izaak Pud, Josek Wajnberg with daughter Frajdla, Owadia Tołbiasz, Gerszon Kopfe with wife Rachela and daughter Sura Kopfe, as well as Chana Goldsztein and his wife Bluma.<ref name="WS4"/> All stayed in Lubartów. Others survived by hiding with the Poles in villages surrounding the city, including Berek Tunkielszwarc, Doba Apfeld, Szloma and Dawid Cyngiel, Izaak Pud, Josek Wajnberg with daughter Frajdla, Owadia Tołbiasz, and Chana Goldsztein.<ref name="WS4"/> Frank Bleichman, whose family was sent to their deaths in 1942, fled from the [[Holocaust train]] in the night and reached the home of the Głos family of four at a nearby farm in Kierzkówka. They treated him like one of their own. Frank later joined the partisans but visited his rescuers regularly. The Głos couple, Aleksander and Stanisława, along with their two sons helped other Jews as well. The family was recognized as [[Polish Righteous]] fifty years after the fact on 14 June 1998 (case No. 8045), with depositions submitted years earlier. The medal and the certificate of honour was received in Lublin by Alfreda Głos, the widow of the first son of the Głos couple, Tadeusz Głos. The parents were long dead by then. |
Only forty Jews had survived the liquidation of the Lubartów Ghetto. Some of them were rescued by the Poles, others hid in the forests. Josek Honiksblum and his wife Bluma survived hidden by the Czekański family in their home at Lipowa 3 Street. Dora Wajnbert with her sister Noma and her one-and-a-half year old baby were rescued by Jan Sienkiewicz living at Legionów 55 Street. Among the Jews who escaped the mass murder thanks to their Christian neighbours were Berek Tunkielszwarc, Doba Apfeld, Szloma and Dawid Cyngiel, Izaak Pud, Josek Wajnberg with daughter Frajdla, Owadia Tołbiasz, Gerszon Kopfe with wife Rachela and daughter Sura Kopfe, as well as Chana Goldsztein and his wife Bluma.<ref name="WS4"/> All stayed in Lubartów. Others survived by hiding with the Poles in villages surrounding the city, including Berek Tunkielszwarc, Doba Apfeld, Szloma and Dawid Cyngiel, Izaak Pud, Josek Wajnberg with daughter Frajdla, Owadia Tołbiasz, and Chana Goldsztein.<ref name="WS4"/> Frank Bleichman, whose family was sent to their deaths in 1942, fled from the [[Holocaust train]] in the night and reached the home of the Głos family of four at a nearby farm in Kierzkówka. They treated him like one of their own. Frank later joined the partisans but visited his rescuers regularly. The Głos couple, Aleksander and Stanisława, along with their two sons helped other Jews as well. The family was recognized as [[Polish Righteous]] fifty years after the fact on 14 June 1998 (case No. 8045), with depositions submitted years earlier. The medal and the certificate of honour was received in Lublin by Alfreda Głos, the widow of the first son of the Głos couple, Tadeusz Głos. The parents were long dead by then.{{cn}} Not all rescue attempts were equally successful. The Polish farming family of Jan Galat and his wife Marianna, who sheltered the two Rozgolds, were caught by [[Orpo]] on 20 November 1942. Jan Galat was taken to Lubartów and publicly hanged for helping Jews.{{cn}} |
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 Jewish cemetery in Lubartów | |
  Lubartów
Lubartów location west of Majdanek during the Holocaust in Poland | |
  Lubartów Ghetto Location of Lubartów in Poland today | |
| Location | Lubartów, German-occupied Poland 51°17′N 22°22′E / 51.28°N 22.36°E |
| Incident type | Imprisonment, forced labor, starvation, transit to extermination camps |
| Organizations | Schutzstaffel (SS) |
| Camp | Auschwitz |
| Victims | 4,500 Polish Jews |
Lubartów Ghetto was established by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II, and existed officially from 1941 until October 1942. The Polish Jews of the town of Lubartów were confined there initially. The ghetto inmates also included Jews deported from other cities in the vicinity including Lublin and Ciechanów and the rest of German occupied Europe for the total of 3,500 Jews in its initial stages including 2,000 Jews from Slovakia.[1] In May 1942 additional transport from Slovakia with 2,421 Jews arrived.[1]
The Lubartów Ghetto was one of hundreds of such ghettos established in the course of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. The maximum number of prisoners at any one time was 4,500 according to Virtual Shtetl.[2] The ghetto was dissolved when all its prisoners – men, women, and children – were sent to the Belzec extermination camp among other secretive killing centres established by the SS, to be murdered under the guise of "resettlement".[3]
Background
The first mention of the Jewish community in Lubartów comes from 1592. By 1676 there were 80 Jews in the town, operating 15 breweries. The Beth din rabbinical court was also established.[1] In the 17th and 18th centuries the Jews received numerous privileges consecutively from Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (in 1678), Józef Lubomirski (in 1688) and Janusz Aleksander Sanguszko family (in 1780, and 1796).[1] There were three synagogues and two Jewish cemeteries, one of which had not been used since the 19th century.[3] In the interwar period the town's population was 53.6 percent Jewish according to the national census with 3,269 Jews living there in 1921.[3] By the time of the invasion of Poland in 1939 that number has already gone down to 42 percent due to migration flows.[1]
The German army entered the town on 19 September 1939, early on in the attack against Poland. On the morning of 12 October 1939, the German army ordered all of the Jews to go to the market square where they were surrounded by machine guns. This allowed for the German army to ransack and rob Jewish-owned homes and businesses. This lasted all day.[4]
Deportation and execution
The deportation of Jews to the nearby towns of Firlej, Ostrów Lubelski, and Kamionka, started at the beginning of November 1939. All of the Jews were told to leave. There were, though, a few who stayed to work for the German Army. They were exiled from Lubartów until September 1940.
A Judenrat (German: for Jewish council) was set up in late 1939 for those Jews who remained. The first President, Jakub Modko Lichtenfel, did not stay at his post for long, and was soon replaced by Dawid Perec. The last Judenrat of Lubartów consisted of five members: Moshe Joel Edelman (President), Shlomo Ber Ciesler (Vice President), Izrael Ratensilber, Menashe Kosman, and Jechiel Weinberg.
The ghetto area around the two marketplaces of Lubartów were still in existence when the Jews returned from slave labour projects. A communal kitchen was organised for the now poverty-stricken Jews. Deportations were also conducted into the Lubartów Ghetto. An example of this is the transport of 1,000 Jews from Ciechanów. In addition, by May 1942, some 2,421 Slovakian Jews had been deported to Lubartów.
The first deportation to a death camp aboard Holocaust trains took place on 9 April 1942, the last day of Passover. On the first day, 800 Jews who did not have work cards were ordered to go to the railway station, from which they were taken to Belzec extermination camp.[5] The last one of the train deportations to Belzec was on the 11 October 1942, with 3,000 Jews sent to their deaths.[3] Some of these deprtees were sent to Majdanek, with the others going to the death camp in Treblinka. Jews that were found to be hiding were shot. In total, the number of Jews found after last deportation numbered 300. After a while, the Jews that were found were instead deported to the Piaski ghetto.[6]
The members of the Judenrat, and their families, were deported to Łęczna. They were shot in November 1942, while Jews who worked for the German gendarmerie were shot on 29 January 1943.[6] After the last deportations, the synagogues and cemeteries were destroyed. The gravestones were used in a pavement at a Wehrmacht base. Lubartów was declared Judenfrei by the Nazis in February 1943.[6]
Escape and rescue efforts
Only forty Jews had survived the liquidation of the Lubartów Ghetto. Some of them were rescued by the Poles, others hid in the forests. Josek Honiksblum and his wife Bluma survived hidden by the Czekański family in their home at Lipowa 3 Street. Dora Wajnbert with her sister Noma and her one-and-a-half year old baby were rescued by Jan Sienkiewicz living at Legionów 55 Street. Among the Jews who escaped the mass murder thanks to their Christian neighbours were Berek Tunkielszwarc, Doba Apfeld, Szloma and Dawid Cyngiel, Izaak Pud, Josek Wajnberg with daughter Frajdla, Owadia Tołbiasz, Gerszon Kopfe with wife Rachela and daughter Sura Kopfe, as well as Chana Goldsztein and his wife Bluma.[6] All stayed in Lubartów. Others survived by hiding with the Poles in villages surrounding the city, including Berek Tunkielszwarc, Doba Apfeld, Szloma and Dawid Cyngiel, Izaak Pud, Josek Wajnberg with daughter Frajdla, Owadia Tołbiasz, and Chana Goldsztein.[6] Frank Bleichman, whose family was sent to their deaths in 1942, fled from the Holocaust train in the night and reached the home of the Głos family of four at a nearby farm in Kierzkówka. They treated him like one of their own. Frank later joined the partisans but visited his rescuers regularly. The Głos couple, Aleksander and Stanisława, along with their two sons helped other Jews as well. The family was recognized as Polish Righteous fifty years after the fact on 14 June 1998 (case No. 8045), with depositions submitted years earlier. The medal and the certificate of honour was received in Lublin by Alfreda Głos, the widow of the first son of the Głos couple, Tadeusz Głos. The parents were long dead by then.[citation needed] Not all rescue attempts were equally successful. The Polish farming family of Jan Galat and his wife Marianna, who sheltered the two Rozgolds, were caught by Orpo on 20 November 1942. Jan Galat was taken to Lubartów and publicly hanged for helping Jews.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Jewish Lubartów". Historia: Społeczność żydowska przed 1989. Wirtualny Sztetl (Virtual Shtetl). 2016. pp. 1–6. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
{{cite web}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter|authors=(help) - ^ Mikołaj Jędryszka (2016). "Jewish Lubartów. Notes". Żydzi w Lubartowie na przestrzeni wieków. Referat przygotowany na sesje naukową „Moja mała ojczyzna”, k. 16. Wirtualny Sztetl (Virtual Shtetl). Retrieved 27 February 2016. See also: Ryszard Jacek Dumało (2001), Wojna, okupacja, wyzwolenie – Lubartów 1939–1949, Lublin, pp. 208, 213; [and] Robert Kuwałek, Paweł Sygowski (2000), "Z dziejów społeczności żydowskiej w Lubartowie," [in:] Lubartów i ziemia lubartowska magazine, Vol. 14, p. 81; by Lubartowskie Towarzystwo Regionalne.
- ^ a b c d Lubartow Getto: 1941 - Oct. 1942 The Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture.
- ^ Baruch Tshubinski (1947). Hurben Levertow. Paris. p. 7. OCLC 84481648.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Gilbert, Martin (1986), The Holocaust – The Jewish Tragedy (Google Books, snippet view). William Collins Sons & Co. Limited, London.
- ^ a b c d e "Jewish Lubartów". Historia: Społeczność żydowska przed 1989. Wirtualny Sztetl (Virtual Shtetl). 2016. p. 5. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
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Further reading
- Documents from State Archive in Lublin and Archive of the Majdanek State Museum.
- Hurben Levertow, edited by Baruch Tshubinski. Copyright by "Les Amis de Lubartow," Paris 1947
- J. Kielbon: Martyrologia ludności Lubartowa w latach okupacji hitlerowskiej (Martyrdom of the Inhabitants of *Lubartow in the Years of Nazi Occupation). Lubartow and Ziemia Lubartowska 1993
- Z. J. Hirsz: Lata wojny i okupacji 1939 -1944 ( Years of the War and Occupation 1939–1944). (in:) Lubartów – z dziejow miasta i regionu (Lubartów – from the History of the Town and Region). Ed by S. Tworek. Lublin 1977
- M. Derecki: Kromka chleba (Slice of Bread). "Gazeta w Lublinie” (23 April 1993)
- Robert Kuwalek, Paweł Sygowski (2000): Z dziejów społeczności żydowskiej w Lubartowie. (From the History of the Jewish Community in Lubartów). Lubartów i Ziemia Lubartowska magazine, Vol. 14.