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The Shoah (1939–1945)

Liquidation of the Otwock ghetto

Août 1942·Otwock

Toll
~8 000

The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.

The ghetto of the spa town is emptied towards Treblinka, hundreds of people shot in the streets.

Otwock, a thermal resort amid the pine forests near Varsovie, was known for its sanatoriums and rest homes, and sheltered a significant Jewish population to which refugees from the capital had been added.

The enclosed quarter is emptied at the end of summer toward Treblinka. The sick from the sanatoriums and those unable to walk are shot in the streets and gardens during the action. A few inhabitants manage to reach the woods surrounding the town.

Period :
The Shoah (1939–1945)
Type :
Shoah
Region :
Central and Eastern Europe
Country :
Pologne
Sources

Yad Vashem, *The Untold Stories* ; *Pinkas Hakehillot Polin* ; Institut historique juif de Varsovie.

At the same place

The catalogue holds no other event at Otwock.

In the same country206

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And 198 more in the catalogue.

Event 1928 of 2483, in chronological order · The Shoah (1939–1945): 915 events in the catalogue

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