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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Henryk Mandelbaum (category Sosnowiec Ghetto inmates)
war, he was an officer of the Poviat Office for Public Security (UB) in Będzin in 1945-48. He died on 17 June 2008 in the Polish city of Bytom, following...
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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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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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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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Auschwitz concentration camp (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
The SS deported around 18,000 Jews to Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto in Terezin, Czechoslovakia, beginning on 8 September 1943 with a transport...
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Timeline of the 1939 invasion of Poland (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
officers, in Moryca and Longinówka, and massacres of 56 Polish civilians in Będzin and Uniejów. During the night of 6/7 September, the Wyszków Operational...
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Jan Grabowski (category Université de Montréal alumni)
Judenjagd was the German search for Jews who had escaped from the liquidated ghettos in Poland and were trying to hide among the non-Jewish population. Grabowski...
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List of Polish Jews (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
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...
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extent, agriculture; in the matter of residence they were not restricted to ghettos, like their German brethren. All these conditions contributed toward the...
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after which property devolved to the Polish state. Even if Jews regained de jure control, additional lengthy proceedings were required when it was occupied...
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Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
of their lebensraum. The local Jewish population was forced to live in ghettos, and was gradually deported to concentration and extermination camps, the...
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History of the Jews in Gdańsk (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
the German annexation of Danzig Free City, about 130 Jews were held in a "ghetto" in a building on Milchkannengasse street (today's ulica Stągiewna), and...
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(50 Jews) 6, 8 September, Uniejów massacre (50 people) 6, 9 September, Będzin massacres (20 Poles and 100 Jews) 7 September, Wylazłów massacre (24 Poles)...
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Katowice (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
following months, Katowice Jews were deported to ghettos in Dąbrowa Basin (primarily Sosnowiec and Będzin) or directly to various concentration and death...
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Białystok (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
000 Jewish residents of the town were confined in a ghetto. On August 15, 1943, the Białystok Ghetto Uprising began, and several hundred Polish Jews and...
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