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    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...
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    Rutka Laskier (category Będzin Ghetto inmates)
    Polish city of Będzin, from whence her paternal grandparents hailed. Following the German invasion of Poland, while in the Będzin Ghetto, Rutka Laskier...
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  • Fridrich Kuczynski (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    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...
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    Łódź/Litzmannstadt Ghetto holding 204,000 prisoners existed in a Polish city annexed to Germany; numerous others included Będzin Ghetto, Sosnowiec Ghetto, and the...
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    Arno Lustiger (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Sam Pivnik (category Będzin Ghetto inmates)
    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...
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  • 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....
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    Johann Pscheidt (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    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...
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    Nazi war crimes in occupied Poland during World War II (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    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...
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    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...
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    Białystok, Częstochowa Ghetto, Kielce Ghetto, Kraków Ghetto in Kraków, Lublin Ghetto, Lwów Ghetto in present-day Lviv, Stanisławów Ghetto also in present-day...
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  • 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...
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    Treblinka extermination camp (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    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...
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    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...
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  • Sobibór, and Chełmno. Others died of starvation and maltreatment in the ghettos. Occupied Poland became the largest site of the Nazi extermination program...
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    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...
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    Judenfrei (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    hidden by local people. Removal methods included forced re-housing in Nazi ghettos especially in eastern Europe, and forced removal or Resettlement to the...
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  • Remembrance Authority (Jerusalem) Beit Terezin (in Kibbutz Givat Haim (Ihud)) Ghetto Fighters' House (Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot) Massuah Institute for the Study...
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  • Holocaust victims (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    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...
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    War crimes in occupied Poland during World War II (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    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)...
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    into the Lwów and Warsaw Ghettos, saving countless lives. Dr. Tadeusz Kosibowicz, director of the state hospital in Będzin, was sentenced to death for...
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    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...
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    Lesser Poland (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    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...
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    Heinrich Himmler (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    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...
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    Rudolf Höss (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    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...
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  • Uckermark concentration camp (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    with disabilities Ghettos Będzin Białystok Budapest Kaunas Kraków Łódź Lublin Lwów Minsk Riga Sosnowiec Warsaw Vilnius Jewish ghettos in German-occupied...
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    Michał Weinzieher (category People from Będzin)
    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...
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    Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Volume III: Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany....
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