JEWISH GHETTO 1, after the establishment of the ghetto, the Germans divided the Jews in Jaworow into two groups.
JEWISH GHETTO 1, after the establishment of the ghetto, the Germans divided the Jews in Jaworow into two groups. A small group of 80 people marked with the letter "W" – working for the Wehrmacht – lived outside of the ghetto in a special block on the market square. They worked in the local Heeresamt and benefited from better conditions than the rest of the Jews in the ghetto. Among them were the men who began to organize a resistance movement. Another resistance group arrived in the ghetto in January 1943 from the liquidated ghetto of Lubaczow. Neither of these groups planned for armed resistance, but they prepared themselves for a mass escape at the moment of the ghetto's liquidation. Both groups bought weapons from Ukrainian policemen, and several days before the liquidation they escaped to the forest, where they organized a partisan unit. The final liquidation of the ghetto in Jaworow took place on 16 April 1943. Before the liquidation, about 500 men were deported t...