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Commemoration of 14 Jews murdered by the Germans in 1942.

In May 1942 the Germans came to the village and captured the Jews. 14 of them were put in a row, shot to death and buried on the execution site.

On 15 July 2009, Harley Lippman and his son Adam unveiled the memorial. 86 members of Lippman’s family were killed during the Holocaust. Zvi Rav-Ner, the Ambassador of Israel to Poland, issued a letter which was read out during the ceremony.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• Harley Lippman with his son Adam Lippman
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich
• Deputy Chief of Mission at U.S. Embassy Warsaw, Pamela Quanrud
• Zbigniew Nizinski from the Lasting Memory Foundation
• Local authority representatives
• Clergymen
• Local residents, people from neighboring towns, and witnesses to the killing

Commemoration of 14 Jews murdered by the Germans in 1942.

In May 1942 the Germans came to the village and captured the Jews. 14 of them were put in a row, shot to death and buried on the execution site.

On 15 July 2009, Harley Lippman and his son Adam unveiled the memorial. 86 members of Lippman’s family were killed during the Holocaust. Zvi Rav-Ner, the Ambassador of Israel to Poland, issued a letter which was read out during the ceremony.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• Harley Lippman with his son Adam Lippman
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich
• Deputy Chief of Mission at U.S. Embassy Warsaw, Pamela Quanrud
• Zbigniew Nizinski from the Lasting Memory Foundation
• Local authority representatives
• Clergymen
• Local residents, people from neighboring towns, and witnesses to the killing

Commemoration of about 150 Jews murdered by the Germans in 1943.

In 1943, the Germans took Jews that worked in a nearby labor camp to the forest and shot them. Local residents buried them at the execution site.

On 16 July 2009, Harley Lippman and his son Adam unveiled the memorial.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• Harley Lippman with his son Adam Lippman
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich
• Local authority representatives
• Clergymen
• Local residents, people from neighboring towns, and witnesses to the killing

Commemoration of about 150 Jews murdered in the Death March on December 1, 1939

On December 1, 1939, the Germans led Jewish men under 60 out of Chełm to the Soviet zone, which was 100 km away. The weak were killed along the way. Local residents buried them in mass grave.

On September 14, 2010, Harley Lippman unveiled the memorial.

Among the 200 people attending the ceremony were:
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich
• Blima Lorber from Brazil, daughter of a Death March survivor
• Local authority representatives
• People from neighboring towns
• Teachers
• Students from local schools
• Representatives of three religions
• Students from local school and local poet presented the poems prepared specially for the occasion.

Commemoration of about 100 Jews murdered by the Germans in 1942.

In 1942, during the transport of Jews from Biała Podlaska to Międzyrzec Podlaski, the Germans shot about 100 people in the forest. Local residents buried them in one mass grave.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich
• Local authority representatives
• Clergymen
• Local residents, people from neighboring towns, and witnesses to the killing
• Teachers and students

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Commemoration about 250 Jews murdered by the Germans in 1942. In the years 1940 – 1942 in Luta there was a German labor camp for Jews from Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. They worked on the drainage of a nearby river. About 300 Jews were murdered here. About 250 people were buried in a mass grave in the forest.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich
• Representatives of the Czech Embassy
• Local authority representatives
• Clergymen
• Local residents, people from neighboring towns, and witnesses to the killing
• Teachers and students

Commemoration of about 300 Jews murdered by the Germans in 1942.

In the years 1940 – 1942 in Luta there was a German labor camp for Jews from Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. They worked on the drainage of a nearby river. About 300 Jews were murdered here. About 50 people were buried in the village.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich
• Representatives of the Czech Embassy
• Local authority representatives
• Clergymen
• Local residents, people from neighboring towns, and witnesses to the killing
• Teachers and students

Commemoration 12 Jews murdered by the Germans in 1943.

The Jews buried there were the escapees from a camp in Wilga. In October 1943, 12 Jews were walking through Leokadia with empty bowls, begging for food when they were captured by two Germans patrolling the area and shot to death soon afterwards.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich
• The town’s Parish Priest
• The Mayor of Łaskarzew and local authority representatives including the Community Office Secretary
• The Chief Officer of the District Fire Service
• Local residents, people from neighboring towns, and witnesses to the killing
• Teachers and students of four local schools
• A group of 15 people from Israel

Commemoration of about 350 Jews murdered by the Germans in 1943.

In June 1942 the Germans transported to the railway station in Klementowice about 400 Polish Jewish men from the Warsaw Ghetto to work at railway construction site. They were detained in barracks in the land of the Agricultural School Complex in Klementowice. Physically weakened by hunger, they were unable to work. The Germans picked about 50 young men fit for work and decided to kill the other 350 Jews. The victims were told to dig out their own grave, which they were unable to do. A mass grave was dug out on Saturday by an excavator working at railway construction. On Sunday morning, when there were no witnesses working on surrounding fields, the people were brought to the pit and executed.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• Ruth Cohen – Dar, Deputy Ambassador of Israel to Poland
• Dru Alejandro, representative of the Embassy of the United States
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich
• Bishop Mieczysław Cisło, Catholic priests and Evangelical pastors
• Waldemar Podsiadły, Voivode Representative
• Michał Sobelman, Spokesperson of the Embassy of Israel
• Zofia Kamionowska from the Children of the Holocaust Association
• Zbigniew Niziński, President of the Lasting Memory Foundation
• Mayor of Kurów and Mayor of Końskowola
• Students two local school

Commemoration of about 30 Jews murdered in the Death March on December 2, 1939

In December 1939, the Germans led Jews from Chełm and Hrubieszów to the Soviet zone on the Bug River. About 30 Jews who could not go on were killed in Cichobórz. They were gathered from the road and buried in one pit.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich
• Catholic bishop
• Local authority representatives
• People from neighboring towns
• Teachers and students from 5 local schools

Commemoration of the grave of about 70 Jews, men, women and children murdered in 1943.

In the fall of 1943, during a German manhunt, Jews that were hiding for about a year on a makeshift campsite in nearby forest swamps were chased out of the forest and got trapped on meadows in Kaplonosy. Bullets fired from machine guns killed about 70 people. The locals collected the bodies and buried them in a single pit.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich
• Local authority representatives
• The President of the Lasting Memory Foundation
• Catholic and Orthodox priests
• Principal of school in Wyryki along with the teachers and students
• Principal of school in Kaplonosy with the students
• Delegation of high school students from Włodawa
• Residents of Włodawa
• In the evening 80 students from Asdod in Israel visited the grave

Commemoration of the mass grave of about 180 Jews murdered in 1943.

Germans set up a labor camp in Wolska Dąbrowa for Soviet prisoners of war to build roads. After they had been relocated, approximately 400 Jews were brought in instead. In August 1943, the German soldiers executed about 180 of them, the bodies were thrown into a pit and the remaining Jews were transported to an unknown location.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich
• Local government representatives
• the Mayor of Jastrzębia
• The President of the Lasting Memory Foundation, Zbigniew Niziński
• Catholic and Orthodox priests
• Residents of Wolska Dąbrowa and the vicinity
• Students and teachers from two local School
• A group of 160 students from Haifa in Israel along with teachers

Commemoration of the grave of 8 Jews murdered in 1943.

In 1943, Jewish men and women, were hiding in a forest in Próchenki in dugouts that they had built themselves. 8 Jews were killed by German soldiers during a manhunt.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• President of the Lasting Memory Foundation, Zbigniew Niziński who read the letter of Wojciech Kolarski, the Undersecretary of State in the Chancellery of the President of Poland
• Holocaust Survivor Felicja Weiss from Israel who gave a speech
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich
• Catholic Bishop Mieczysław Cisło along with Catholic and Baptist clergy
• Mayor of Olszanka Commune, Deputy Starost of Łosice District
• Principal and group of students from a school complex in Olszanka
• A group of 43 people from Israel
• Residents of Próchenki and the vicinity

Commemoration of the grave of 11 Jews murdered in 1943.

In 1943, 11 Jews that had escaped from the Ryki ghetto were hiding in a forest in Zalesie and shot to death during a German manhunt. On the German command, Zalesie residents buried the victims in one pit. Thanks to an eyewitness account, a name of only one of the Victims, Nuta was identified.

The unveiling ceremony monument was attended by:
• Representative of the Chancellery of the President of Poland Jakub Beczek
• Chair of the US Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Lesley Weiss along with the Commission members
• Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich
• Bishop Mieczysław Cisło of the Polish Episcopate
• Representative of the Governor of Lublin Province Artur Jaśkowski
• Zbigniew Niziński, president Lasting Memory Foundation
• Deputy Mayor of Ryki
• Parish Priest of Ryki
• Manager of the Culture Center in Ryki
• Administrator of Zalesie village
• Teachers and students from High School in Ryki
• Local residents of Ryki

A wreath and candles from the President of Poland were laid at the memorial, as well as flowers and lights from the ceremony participants. Rabbi, Bishop and Parish Priest prayed together and Chair of US Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, Lesley Weiss gave a speech. The High School students recited poetry devoted to the fate of Jews at the time of the war. The youth from Israel and the high school students from Ryki performed songs.

Commemoration of 47 Jews murdered in 1942.

In November 1942, in the vicinity of the town of Biłgoraj, the Germans were in the process of liquidating ghettos and deporting Jews to the extermination camp in Bełżec. The Jews attempting to hide were being captured and executed by the German police. In Olchowiec there was a detention center from which the Jews were taken to the execution to nearby site. The place where the victims had been murdered and buried remained unmarked and overgrown for years. The grave is 22 meters long, it has been fenced. Also, a memorial plaque restoring the dignity to the nameless Victims has been placed at the front.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich
• Representative of the Polish Episcopacy
• representative of the Chancellery of the President of Poland
• Mayor of Olchowiec
• by local residents
• Students of four nearby schools
• Local government representatives
• Group of 70 people from Israel

Commemoration of the grave of 25 Jews – men, women and children murdered by the Germans in 1942.

In the spring of 1942, the Germans ordered residents of Bzowiec to report to the ghetto in Gorzków who decided to run away and find a hiding place. In September 1942 German military police arrived in Bzowiec. The Jews were rounded up in one of the farms and executed in the backyard in the presence of many witnesses. The Germans ordered that the bodies were to be transported to the woods and buried in a nameless grave.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• Representative of the Chancellery of the President of Poland
• Rabbi
• Bishop representative of Episcopacy and priests from three local parishes
• Mayor
• A group of 100 students from the town of Or-Yehuda in Israel
• President of the Lasting Memory Foundation, Zbigniew Niziński
• Students from the local school
• Residents of Bzowiec and adjacent villages

Commemoration of the grave of about 20 Jews murdered in the Death March on December 1, 1939

In Chełm’s town square, the Germans gathered approximately 2000 Jews, men between 16 and 60 years of age who they chased during the Death March towards the Soviet Zone through Hrubieszów to Sokal on the Bug river. Along the way, the Germans were shooting to the column of the marching men, killing the weak ones and executing groups of Jews to accelerate the march. The Germans forced locals to bury the bodies of the murdered Jews that were lying along the route.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• Chancellery of the President of Poland
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich
• Representative of the Episcopacy of Poland, Pastor of a local Pentecostal church
• Local government representatives
• Teachers and students from the local school
• Local residents of Pobolowice and adjacent villages
• A group of around 100 guests from several countries, including the descendants of Jewish Victims from Chełm and Hrubieszów living in Israel and Brazil

Commemoration of the grave of 25 Jews murdered in Stanisławów in 1942

In 1942, 25 Jews from several different Jewish families were transported to Stanisławów. They were brought to the forest by the German military police and executed. The German military police ordered the locals to bury the victims at the execution site. It remained unmarked for 78 years.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• Representative of the Chancellery of the President of Poland
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich
• Representative of the Episcopate of Poland – Bishop Mieczysław Cisło
• Principal of the school in Stanisławów along with the teachers and students
• Local authorities, clergy, the country housewives’ club from Stanisławów
• President of the Lasting Memory Foundation, Zbigniew Niziński
• Local residents from Stanisławów, including the eyewitnesses to the war events.

Commemoration of the grave of Motel Zysmanowicz murdered in 1942

Motel Zysmanowicz did not go to Białobrzegi ghetto as other Jews from Stromiec but instead he remained hidden for a year with the support of Stromiec residents. In 1942, he was captured and executed by the German police and then buried at the execution site.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich
• Rabbi Yehoshua Ellis
• Parish Priest of Stromiec
• Local government representatives
• Principal of a local school together with his students
• Local residents from Stromiec

Commemoration of the grave of 2 Jews, a man and a woman, murdered in 1942.

In the winter of 1942, two Jews – a man and a woman were hiding in nearby houses, but they were soon captured in a German manhunt and murdered. One of the locals was ordered by the Germans to bury the victims.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich
• The local Priest
• Local government representatives
• Principals from local schools together with their students
• The President of The Lasting Memory Foundation, Zbigniew Niziński
• Local residents of Krupineskie

Commemoration 12 Jews murdered by the Germans in 1943.

The Jews buried there were the escapees from a camp in Wilga. In October 1943, 12 Jews were walking through Leokadia with empty bowls, begging for food when they were captured by two Germans patrolling the area and shot to death soon afterwards.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich
• The town’s Parish Priest
• The Mayor of Łaskarzew and local authority representatives including the Community Office Secretary
• The Chief Officer of the District Fire Service
• Local residents, people from neighboring towns, and witnesses to the killing
• Teachers and students of four local schools
• A group of 15 people from Israel

Commemoration of the burial place of 50 Jews, including 15 children, murdered in 1943.

Jews hid in dug outs created within a sandy hill of Mokry Jegiel forest. On 8 January 1943, the German military police organized a manhunt for the hiding Jews. Men who were being shot at started running out of the dug outs while women and children remained hidden. The Germans threw in smoke candles and grenades in the pits. 15 men, 20 women and 15 children were murdered in the dug outs.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich
• The local parish Priest
• Representative of the Chancellery of the President of Poland,
• Member of the Polish Sejm
• President of the Lasting Memory Foundation, Zbigniew Niziński
• The local mayor
• Local government representatives
• The principals, teachers and students of two local schools
• Scouts
• Local residents

Commemoration of the place of execution and burial of 12 Jews, including 9 children, murdered in 1942.

In October 1942, a unit of German soldiers arrived in Błażek and conducted a manhunt capturing 12 Jews that were hiding, including 9 children aged 4-12, all of whom were the residents of Błażek. The Germans forced them to gather in a field surrounding the village and executed them by shots to the back of their heads. Under the Germans’ command, the residents of Błażek buried the victims on the execution site.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by:
• Ambassador of Israel to Poland Yacov Livne
• Representative of the Chancellery of the President of Poland Jakub Beczek
• The Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich
• Representative of the Polish Episcopate, Bishop Mieczysław Cisło and other clergy
• President of the Lasting Memory Foundation, Zbigniew Niziński
• Local authorities and students from a local school
• Local residents of Błażek and surrounding areas
• A group of 5 visitors from Israel

Here at Osieck to commemorate the mass grave of 28 Jews.

This monument is in memory of Chmelnicki, Ganz, Tenenbaum, and Blum families.

To my left is Bishop Cislo and Jakub Beczka of the Chancellery of the Polish president. To my right are two members of Bnai Brith and a member of the Children of the Holocaust.

The 5th grade did a very, very moving presentation.

In December 1942, 18 Jews were murdered.

The ceremony was attended by the local mayor, school director, local priest, and a representative from the President’s office.