Liquidation of the Sokołów Podlaski ghetto

Sokołów Podlaski, a small town on the Podlachie plain, midway between Siedlce and the Bug, was home to a Jewish community whose settlement dates back to the sixteenth century and which, on the eve of the war, made up more than half of its inhabitants. Its tanneries and grain market set the rhythm of the week; two houses of study and a yeshiva sustained religious life. In the autumn, the occupiers confined the population to an enclosed quarter, then, a few weeks later, marched the inhabitants to the railway station and transported them to the Treblinka death camp, barely twenty kilometers away. The sick and those unable to walk were shot in the streets or at the cemetery. The community then ceased to exist.