Otwock - Holocaust Historical Society
WebWith Otwock’s unique status as a health resort and the towns economic life resting on its medical institutions, Otwock’s mayor Jan Gademski, petitioned to postpone the establishment of a ghetto. The request was denied. The orders to establish a ghetto in the town were received on 26 September 1940.
Otwock & the Zofiowka Sanatorium
WebOtwock & the Zofiowka Sanatorium. A Refuge from Hell. The Sanitorium in Otwock. Adam Czerniakow the Chairman of the Warsaw Judenrat wrote in his diary, about his stays in the Jewish sanatoriums in Otwock, as a refuge from the hell, that the ghetto had become. . Otwock is located 27 kilometres East South East from Warsaw and a Jewish community ...
Otwock - Wikipedia
WebThe Ghetto was liquidated between August and 19 September 1942, when 75% of its Jewish population of 12,000–15,000 numbering at around 8,000 were assembled by the Nazis at a layover yard in Otwock (pictured) and transported in cattle trucks to extermination camps in Treblinka and Auschwitz.
Otwock - Jewish Virtual Library
WebOTWOCK, town and health resort near Warsaw, Poland. It became popular among middle-class Jews from central Poland as a fashionable resort. A ḥasidic dynasty derives its name from this town. There were 2,356 Jews living in Otwock in 1908 (20.9% of the total population), and 5,408 in 1921.
The Map of Otwock Ghetto | Artefact | Montreal Holocaust Museum
WebThis is a map of the Otwock city ghetto located 20 kilometers south of Warsaw, Poland. A map of the nearby Karczew forced labour camp is also attached to the document. These maps were created in 1947 by the Jewish Historic Council of Bamberg, Germany, to document the Holocaust.
History | Virtual Shtetl
WebOn 4th November 1940 the Germans established the Otwock ghetto, to which they confined nearly 12 thousand Jews. It comprised three districts: "town", "middle" and "health resort" (the area of "Briyut” sanitarium, "Zofiówka” …
Diary of a Jewish Policeman in the Ghetto : a Yad Vashem Podcast
WebDiary of a Jewish Policeman in the Ghetto : a Yad Vashem Podcast. Calel (Calek) Perechodnik was a Jewish policeman in the Otwock ghetto. Within his role, he took part in an Aktion (forced deportation) in which 8,000 of the city's Jews were deported, among them his wife Anna and daughter Athalie. Calek, certain they would be safe, took them out ...
Memoir of Calel Perechodnik | Experiencing History: Holocaust …
WebOne of the most remarkable Jewish wartime accounts is the memoir 1 of Calel (Calek) Perechodnik—a young Jewish policeman 2 in the Otwock ghetto. Hiding on the so-called "Aryan" side of Warsaw beginning in December 1942, Perechodnik wrote a manuscript describing the events of the previous years.
The Attitudes of the Poles Toward the Jews - Jewish Virtual Library
WebCalel Perechodnik was a young Polish Jew from Otwock – a small town near Warsaw. In the vain hope of protecting himself and his family, Calel Perechodnik decided to become a Ghetto policeman in Otwock.
Franciszka Oliwa | The Post-Holocaust Children's Home in Otwock
WebFranciszka Oliwa survived the liquidation of the Otwock ghetto in 1943, after which she traveled to Warsaw under the protection of Aryan papers. She later hid in Kielce, in the home of the Poles Rudolf and Joanna Nowak. The Nowaks were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1991.
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