The Shoah (1939–1945)
Liquidation of the Siedlce ghetto
Août 1942·Siedlce
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The ghetto is emptied towards Treblinka after a gathering of several days in a meadow.
Siedlce, east of Varsovie, had a closed quarter populated by its own inhabitants and those expelled from neighboring towns. It was surrounded at the end of summer and the population was gathered in a meadow at the edge of the city.
The wait lasted several days, without shelter or water, before the convoys departed for Treblinka. Those who could no longer walk were shot on the meadow itself. A small enclave was maintained for a few more weeks in the quarter, then liquidated in turn.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Pologne
Yad Vashem, *The Untold Stories* ; *Pinkas Hakehillot Polin* ; Institut historique juif de Varsovie.