JEWS AT FORCED LABOR FROM THE KOZIENICE GHETTO 1942


JEWS AT FORCED LABOR FROM THE KOZIENICE GHETTO 1942, Jews from the Kozienice ghetto at forced labor digging alongside a canal in the nearby village of Wolka. They are working for the Gorczycki firm who was building a canal.

 From left to right are Wasserman, Salka Bendler, Anka Mandelbaum, Sabina Goldstein and Bezalel Berneman. After July 1942, Jews from the surrounding towns and villages were systematically relocated into the Kozienice ghetto. By August 1942, a few weeks before its liquidation, approximately 13,000 Jews had been concentrated in the Kozienice ghetto, which became immensely overcrowded. 

The German police conducted the liquidation of the Kozienice ghetto on September 27, 1942. First SS forces, Gendarmerie, and Ukrainian auxiliaries surrounded the ghetto early in the morning. The Jews were forced to leave their houses and gather on Targowa and Koscielna Streets. The people were only allowed to take 15 kilograms of luggage with them. 

The older people were loaded onto trucks, the sick and anyone attempting to resist, as well as Jews in the hospital, were shot on the spot. In total at least 100 people were shot in Kozienice on this day. Columns of Jews escorted by the Germans and Ukrainians marched to the railway station at around 9:00 a.m. watched by the local inhabitants. 

On reaching the station, they were searched thoroughly and deprived of any valuables. The first train to the Treblinka Death Camp departed in the afternoon, and the next, a short time later, there were 60 cattle cars, altogether with approximately 150 people in each car, ready to depart. 

Railway documentation which has survived confirm the exact date these special trains from Kozienice arrived at Treblinka.

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