of Silesian Voivodeship, Będzin belongs to historic Lesser Poland, and it is one of the oldest towns of this region. Będzin is regarded as the capital...

Polish city of Będzin, from whence her paternal grandparents hailed. Following the German invasion of Poland, while in the Będzin Ghetto, Rutka Laskier...

selection on 12 August 1942, on the pitch of the Hakoach sports club in Będzin ghetto, when people who were later deported to extermination camp were selected...

Łódź/Litzmannstadt Ghetto holding 204,000 prisoners existed in a Polish city annexed to Germany; numerous others included Będzin Ghetto, Sosnowiec Ghetto, and the...

population of Będzin was detained in the Będzin ghetto. The Lustiger family were able to hide in a cellar. In August 1943, the ghetto was closed and...

extermination camp in 1943 Frumka Płotnicka, leader of the Sosnowiec and Będzin Ghetto uprisings. Moše Pijade, one of the leaders of the uprising in Montenegro...

Częstochowa Ghetto rose up. At Treblinka, Sonderkommando prisoners armed with stolen weapons attacked the guards on August 2, 1943. A day later, the Będzin and...

As a Jewish family, the Pivniks were forced to live in the Kamionka Ghetto in Będzin from early 1943, and on 6 August 1943 the family were deported to Auschwitz...

merchant for Jewish companies, he went to Zagłębie Dąbrowskie (Sosnowiec, Będzin and Zawiercie) in Poland 1941, where he tried to find out how to safe Jews...

and its allies, and most of those who remained were forcibly moved to ghettos and then either killed on the spot or deported to extermination camps....

citizens; Piotrków (5 September), Jewish section of the city was set on fire; Będzin (8 September), two hundred civilians burned to death; about 300 were shot...

The Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation (English: Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation) is a memorial to the 200,000 people who were deported...

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

Following the Arrow Cross Party's takeover in October 1944, the Budapest Ghetto was established. The Jewish Council of Budapest, during the siege of the...

2015. The Łachwa Ghetto uprising was suppressed on 3 September 1942, the Częstochowa Ghetto uprising on 30 June 1943, the Sosnowiec Ghetto uprising on 3...

between some of the largest Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe, including the Warsaw Ghetto and the Białystok Ghetto, the capital of the newly formed...

Nisan, which is the day before Passover and the day on which the Warsaw Ghetto uprising (April 19, 1943) began, and September 1, the date on which the...

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

hidden by local people. Removal methods included forced re-housing in Nazi ghettos especially in eastern Europe, and forced removal or Resettlement to the...

Remembrance Authority (Jerusalem) Beit Terezin (in Kibbutz Givat Haim (Ihud)) Ghetto Fighters' House (Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot) Massuah Institute for the Study...

non-German. Early in the war, millions of Jews were concentrated in urban ghettos. In 1941, Jews were massacred, and by December, Hitler had decided to exterminate...

muster at first but were later rejected were taken to Kinder KZ in Łódź Ghetto, where most of them eventually died. By January 1943, Himmler reported that...

Piotrków (5 September), Jewish section of the city was set on fire;[h] Będzin (8 September), two hundred civilians burned to death;[i] Kłecko (9–10 September)...

into the Lwów and Warsaw Ghettos, saving countless lives. Dr. Tadeusz Kosibowicz, director of the state hospital in Będzin, was sentenced to death for...

Sosnowiec in 1944, the Militia of PPS counted 475 members in five districts. In Będzin County, it was around 200 persons strong or 15 platoons. In Silesia, the...

original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2011. "History of Będzin County". Starostwo.bedzin.pl. Archived from the original on 3 October 2011. Retrieved...

called as a defense witness by Ernst Kaltenbrunner's lawyer, Kurt Kauffmann [de]. The transcript of Höss' testimony was later entered as evidence during the...

with disabilities Ghettos Będzin Białystok Budapest Kaunas Kraków Łódź Lublin Lwów Minsk Riga Sosnowiec Warsaw Vilnius Jewish ghettos in German-occupied...

with disabilities Ghettos Będzin Białystok Budapest Kaunas Kraków Łódź Lublin Lwów Minsk Riga Sosnowiec Warsaw Vilnius Jewish ghettos in German-occupied...

deported from the Będzin Ghetto to Auschwitz concentration camp on 1 August 1943 (other sources indicate he was murdered in the Ghetto). A teenager during...