The Shoah (1939–1945)
Transit ghetto of Izbica
1942·Izbica
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The town serves as a lock between Western Europe and the killing centers of the region: convoys from the Reich, Austria and the protectorate dump thousands of people there who leave again a few days later toward the gas chambers. Those who remain too long are shot in the cemetery, on the hill overlooking the city.
The town of Izbica, in the Lublin region, is turned into an airlock: emptied of part of its inhabitants, it receives convoys of Jews from the Reich, Austria, and Bohemia, who wait there in appalling conditions before being dispatched to nearby death centers. Executions take place in the streets and at the cemetery to make room for the new arrivals. Few of those who passed through this town survived.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Pologne
Christopher Browning, *Les Origines de la Solution finale* ; *Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos*, dirigée par Geoffrey Megargee.