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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