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Local policeman cutting off Yakov Yehoshua Steinboim’s sidelocks,1939
1939
September 1st World War II breaks out when Germany invades Poland.
September 15 The German army enters Hrubieszow
December 1st Death march of Chelm and Hrubieszow Jews
to
the river Bug. Establishment of the Ghetto,
Judenrat
1942 and Jewish Police.
June 1st deportation of 3,400 Hrubieszow Jews to the Sobibor death camp.
June 9 Deportation of 2,000 Jews to death camp in Belzec.
October 28 Deportation of 2,000 Jews to the Sobibor death camp
1943
September Liquidation of 160 Jews, last of the “Cleaning” unit..
Map of the Jewish Quarter
(drawn from memory by Abraham Silberstein)
Flour mill
Dam
Shools
(Beth Hamidrash)
The Cemetery
Church
ghetto
The Cinema
The Old Market Place
The Syndicate House
The Council
Market Place
Church
The Public
Bathhouse
Residence of
Rabbi
Wertheim
The Pharmacy
The Cinema
Town Hall
The Zamosz Bridge
8,000 Jews were herded into the ghetto in the old market place, and lived there in isolation
Jewish men of Hrubieszow before the Death March, December 1939
From the testimony of Shalom Omri survivor of the “death march”:
From left: Joseph Schwartz (father of Shalom Omri), Isser Shorer and Shalom Omri
”In December 1939 the Germans announced that all Jewish men aged 15 to 65 …
should appear the next morning at 7 am in aground near the town. There were
rumors about forced labor.
We showed up, very innocently, but soon realized that this unfortunate morning
was the beginning of a “death march”- expulsion, on foot, of the Jews of Chelm &
Hrubieszow to the Russian border.
I was 17; after two days of quick march without food & water we nearly collapsed.
The Germans solved it simply – four of their men started to shoot down those who
lagged behind. Many of the Jews fell & their bodies were spread in the mire.
Among them was my uncle Israel. With my last effort I tried to help him, but when
they saw it, they shot him down.
At the end of that day we arrived at the bridge on the river Bug – the border
between Russian occupied Polish territory.
The Germans officer surprised us announcing that we can go over to the
Germans. Four Russian soldiers dragged me to the German side. We found refuge
in the house of a local farmer….
That night I swore that never again will I let this happen – no more exile, no more a
worthless & defenseless people.”
After the war some survivors returned and arranged burial of the victims.
Unveiling of Holocaust memorial in the old cemetery, Hrubieszow 1947
50 years after the war, Shalom Omri and Avraham Silberstein decided to build a
monument to commemorate the Jewish Holocaust victims of Hrubieszow.
The unveiling of the Monument took place on July 9, 1997, under auspices of the Mayor
and his attendance, together with members of the Hrubieszow landsmannschaft in Israel,
USA, Canada and Australia.
Pieces of old tombstones from the Jewish old cemetery are embedded in the monument,
symbolizing 500 years of Jewish life in Hrubieszow.
Let them be of
blessed memory!