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Piotrkow Holocaust Timeline
by Shirley Rotbein Flaum

Here are the timeline highlights of the Holocaust in Piotrkow. A detailed timeline can be read by clicking on the link at the bottom of this page.

September 1, 1939
Germany invades Poland Photo
September 4, 1939
One thousand Piotrkow Jews fleeing the German invasion are killed in a nearby town
September 5, 1939
Germans invade Piotrkow Trybunalski
October 1939
The Gestapo establishes a Judenrat
October 8, 1939
Establishment of a ghetto
March 14, 1941
On March 4, 1941, 600 Jews from Drobin are deported to Piotrkow Trybunalski. Of the 600 Drobniner Jews who were brought to Piotrkow, only six were alive at war's end.
June and July 1941
Underground activities of the Bund are uncovered and members go into hiding.
November 17, 1941
Eight Jews are shot for smuggling food into the ghetto.
October 14, 1942
The Piotrkow "action" begins: at 2:00 in the morning, the ghetto is surrounded by SS men and Ukrainians.
October 14-21, 1942
Liquidation of the ghetto is begun: about 1,000 Jews (including the sick) are shot and 22,000 Jews are deported from the ghetto to Treblinka death camp and gassed, including Rabbi Lau, the last rabbi of Piotrkow; 500 escape to forest nearby.
October-November, 1942
The Gestapo brings "illegals" found in cellars and hiding places to the synagogue. They are sent to Tomaszów Mazowiecki and deported to Treblinka together with the Jews of Tomaszów.
November 19, 1942
One hundred "illegals," mostly old people, are brought to the synagogue, then led away and shot in the nearby Raków forest.
December 19-20, 1942
The Gestapo take Jews from the synagogue to the Rakow forest in groups of fifty to be shot. In the Rakow forest, a total of 560 Jews are shot.
November 24, 1944
The last Jews in Piotrkow are deported.
January 16, 1945
Piotrkow is liberated by the Soviet Army.
1945
After liberation, Poles murder three Jews who return to Piotrkow

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Created: 1 January 2014

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