The Shoah (1939–1945)
Liquidation of Łuków Ghetto
Oct. 1942·Łuków
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The ghetto is emptied toward Treblinka in two actions, with shootings at the cemetery.
Łuków, in the Lublin region, lay along one of the routes leading to Treblinka. Its enclosed quarter had been swelled by the arrival of Jews expelled from Słowacja and neighboring towns.
It was emptied in the autumn through two successive actions, interspersed with an interval during which the survivors were kept at forced labor. The shootings that accompanied each action took place at the Jewish cemetery of Łuków, and the convoys departed from the station toward Treblinka.
- 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.