Olkusz Ghetto was a ghetto for the Jewish population that existed in Olkusz during the German occupation of Poland. The ghetto was created in September...

Bloody Wednesday of Olkusz or Bloody Wednesday in Olkusz (Polish: Krwawa środa w Olkuszu) was perpetrated by the German occupiers in Olkusz on July 31, 1940...

Gutman from Bedzin, Izrael Kahn from Kraków, and Wolf Luzer Glajtman from Olkusz. The partners leased the production halls from the factory of wire, mesh...

Ghettos were established by Nazi Germany in hundreds of locations across occupied Poland after the German invasion of Poland. Most ghettos were established...

Sobibór, and Chełmno. Others died of starvation and maltreatment in the ghettos. Occupied Poland became the largest site of the Nazi extermination program...

Białystok, Częstochowa Ghetto, Kielce Ghetto, Kraków Ghetto in Kraków, Lublin Ghetto, Lwów Ghetto in present-day Lviv, Stanisławów Ghetto also in present-day...

of the enamelware factory in Kraków were filmed at a similar facility in Olkusz, while exterior shots and the scenes on the factory stairs were filmed at...

Zurowska, born in the village of Skalskie near Olkusz. He finished the Gymnasium of Casimir III in Olkusz in 1923 and served in the army during the Polish-Soviet...

region, massacring civilians and prisoners of war, including at Szczucin and Olkusz, operating prisons, forced labour camps and, most notably, the Auschwitz...

Gdynia, Janów, Jasło, Katowice, Kielce, Kowel, Kraków, Kutno, Lublin, Lwów, Olkusz, Piotrków, Płock, Płońsk, Poznań, Puck, Radom, Radomsko, Sulejów, Warsaw...

Ghettos Będzin Białystok Brzesko Częstochowa Frysztak Gorlice Kielce Kraków Łomża Mińsk Nowy Sącz Olkusz Opatów Piotrków Radom Siedlce Sosnowiec Stanisławów...

imprisoned as a Polish Jew at the age of 21 years. He fled from the Sosnowiec Ghetto and was reimprisoned on 22 April 1944, in Birkenau. After arriving to Auschwitz...

Grudziądz, Gdynia, Janów, Jasło, Katowice, Kielce, Kowel, Kutno, Lublin, Lwów, Olkusz, Piotrków, Płock, Płońsk, Poznań, Puck, Radom, Radomsko, Sulejów, Warsaw...

Ghettos Będzin Białystok Brzesko Częstochowa Frysztak Gorlice Kielce Kraków Łomża Mińsk Nowy Sącz Olkusz Opatów Piotrków Radom Siedlce Sosnowiec Stanisławów...

Jewish Kehilla of Krakow was subdivided into seven regional districts: Olkusz, Chrzanow, Wisnicz, Sacz, Bobowa, Pilica, Bedzin, Oshpitzin, and Wolbrom...

Jews would pass on their way to forced labor. Other Poles directed Jewish ghetto escapees to Poles who could help them. Some Poles sheltered Jews for only...

Ghettos Będzin Białystok Brzesko Częstochowa Frysztak Gorlice Kielce Kraków Łomża Mińsk Nowy Sącz Olkusz Opatów Piotrków Radom Siedlce Sosnowiec Stanisławów...

Olkusz. In 1941, the Germans forced Jews into a ghetto. Periodically, some were sent to forced labor camps. In May 1942, 200 residents of the ghetto were...

Reden and Strzemieszyce Małe, on the national road 94 between Katowice and Olkusz. Traces of ancient human settlement date back to the Lusatian culture period...

aide to Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen Icchak Cukierman, leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and fighter of Warsaw Uprising Dora Diamant (1898–1952), lover...

neighboring towns, into the new Tarnów Ghetto. The ghetto was surrounded by a high wooden fence. Living conditions in the ghetto were deplorable, marked by severe...

Ghettos Będzin Białystok Brzesko Częstochowa Frysztak Gorlice Kielce Kraków Łomża Mińsk Nowy Sącz Olkusz Opatów Piotrków Radom Siedlce Sosnowiec Stanisławów...

Ghettos Będzin Białystok Brzesko Częstochowa Frysztak Gorlice Kielce Kraków Łomża Mińsk Nowy Sącz Olkusz Opatów Piotrków Radom Siedlce Sosnowiec Stanisławów...

first formal yeshivas in Poland. In 1888, at age 11, Dov Berish was sent to Olkusz to study the Torah for three years under the tutelage of Rabbi Lublinski...

occupation in World War II, a Nazi ghetto was established for the Jews of Bialystok. During the last stages of the ghetto's existence, between 16 and 20 August...

Krakow were expelled from the city (1940), 15,000 remained in the Kraków Ghetto until 1943 when they were deported to Belzec extermination camp, where they...

above sea level. Dąbrowa Górnicza borders Będzin County, Zawiercie County, Olkusz County and the city of Sosnowiec. At the same time it borders the cities...

street. Other cities include Piotrków Trybunalski, Bochnia, Krasnystaw, Olkusz, Sieradz and Wieluń. Krakowskie Przedmieście was established in the 15th...

survivor sources, can be found in Yad Vashem's Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. 1945: A small group of Jews (up to 100) try to re-establish a Jewish community...

Sosnowiec, Będzin, Chrzanów, Oświęcim, and Zawiercie counties, and parts of Olkusz and Żywiec counties, which became a part of the Province of Upper Silesia...