The Shoah (1939–1945)
Expulsion of the Jews of Sochaczew
févr. 1941·Sochaczew
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City on the Bzura whose community is driven in winter toward the Warsaw ghetto, where most will die.
Sochaczew, on the Bzura river west of Warsaw, was home to an ancient community whose Hasidic court was renowned. The town, devastated by the fighting of the September campaign, saw its Jewish population confined to a closed quarter, swelled by Jews from neighboring villages. Hunger and typhus wreaked havoc there. Early in the year, the quarter was dissolved and its inhabitants transferred to the closed quarter of Warsaw, where they shared the fate of its population. The Hasidic court of Sochaczew, one of the oldest in Mazovia, ceased to exist.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Pologne
Pinkas Hakehillot Polin ; Yad Vashem, base des communautés.