The synagogue, which witnessed the splendor of Lublin's Jewish community, also witnessed its annihilation.Lublin was bombed in the first days of September 1939, and German troops entered the city in mid-September. Harassment and persecution began.In November 1939, Jews living in the inner city were ordered to move to the Jewish quarter.Gradually, its area was restricted and restrictions intensified. Prayers were banned in the synagogue, which from then on served as a shelter for Jews resettled in Lublin from areas incorporated into the Reich and as a people's kitchen for the poor. On March 24, 1941, the governor of the Lublin District, Ernst Zoerner, issued a decree establishing a closed Jewish quarter, from which all Christians were ordered to be evicted. "The boundaries of the ghetto in Lublin are defined by the following streets: from the corner of Kowalska through Kowalska, Krawiecka along the block of houses marked on the plan, crossing the vacant field of Sienna to Kalinowszczyzna up to the corner of Franciszkańska, Franciszkańska through Unicka up to the corner of Lubartowska, Lubartowska up to the corner of Kowalska." The ghetto was initially unfenced, but going outside the area was forbidden. Jews who were caught outside the ghetto boundary without permission were subject to the death penalty, as were those who helped them.In February 1942, the ghetto was partially fenced off with a fence and divided into part A - the larger one, encompassing most of the Jewish quarter - and part B - occupying the area between several streets in the Old Town (including Grodzka and Rybna). On the evening of March 16, 1942, the liquidation of the Lublin ghetto began.This was also the beginning of the "Reinhardt" action, whose headquarters were located in Lublin. Every night, about one and a half thousand people were gathered in the synagogue building, and then, escorted by armed guards with dogs, the procession, formed into a column, was driven several kilometers to the railroad ramp at the city slaughterhouse. From here, in freight cars, Lublin Jews were taken to the Belzec extermination camp.The deportations lasted until April 14, 1942.During them, more than 28,000 people were murdered. The few thousand surviving Jews gathered in Ghetto B were resettled in a new ghetto in Majdan Tatarski, in the eastern part of the city, between the area left by the Plage-Laśkiewicz airplane plant (Flugplatz) and the KL Lublin camp at Majdanek. In November 1942, this ghetto, too, was liquidated and its residents murdered in the Majdanek camp. Over the next few months, Lublin's deserted medieval Jewish quarter was gradually demolished - about 320 buildings were wiped off the face of the earth in this way. About one hundred and fifty Jewish artisans were left alive along with two hundred Christian prisoners who were forcibly working in the Gestapo prison in the castle.These people, however, did not live to see the end of the war. On July 22, 1944, on the eve of the liberation of Lublin by the Soviet army, all the inmates of the castle were shot by the retreating Germans. Today, at the site of the former Maharshal synagogue, there are several commemorative plaques, and the tragic history of the ghetto inhabitants is commemorated by the Trail: Lublin. The memory of the Holocaust was created on the initiative of the "Grodzka Gate - NN Theater" Center for the 2017. 75th anniversary of the liquidation of the Lublin ghetto and the beginning of the "Reinhardt" action.