Krasnystaw - Jewish cemetery (Rejowiecka St.)
Krasnystaw - Cmentarz żydowski (ul. Rejowiecka)
Jewish cemetery (Rejowiecka Street) - It was established most likely in the first half of the 19th century.It is located about 1 km from the market, by the road leading towards Chelm, near the forest. It was destroyed during and immediately after World War II. In 2018. unveiling of a memorial plaque and a cleaning action at the Jewish cemetery took place, organized by the "Well of Memory" Association in cooperation with the Krasnystaw City Hall, the Center for Social Integration, the Krasnystaw Detention Center and the Krasnystaw Forestry Commission.Earlier, in 2014-2016, there was the project "Krasnystaw - the lost shtetl" - implemented by the HerStory Foundation, which included educational workshops and trips to the former camps in Belzec, Sobibor and Majdanek. The project includes an online audio guide to Jewish Krasnystaw and a publication containing a collection of articles and lesson plans on anti-discrimination and Holocaust education.Holocaust - In January 1940. The Germans set up a Judenrat (Lipa Reichmann was chairman), and in August of that year, they established a ghetto in the Grobla suburb, which, in addition to Jews from Krasnystaw and the surrounding area, included a group of displaced persons from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Slovakia and areas of the Third Reich. In April 1942. Some of the ghetto's residents were deported to the Belzec extermination camp, some to the Majdanek concentration camp. In October 1942. The few hundred remaining Jews in the ghetto were moved to the transit ghetto in Izbica, from where they were deported to the death camps in Belzec and Sobibor or shot at the local Jewish cemetery. Near the Borek forest there was a labor camp for Jews from Bohemia who were deported to Krasnystaw.Most of them were shot in this forest.
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On the trail of the Jews - Krasnystaw