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Electronic text and image data. Jerusalem : Yad Vashem 2015
Short one-page descriptions of different cities
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Entries documenting the state of Jewish communities in the period of September 1939 – November 1939. This entry surveys Przemyśl (Occupied by the Germans for three days, then by the Russians, heavily damaged in bombardment with multiple casualties, Jewish shops and businesses looted, elderly Jews shot, the Jewish population displaced); Gabin (Occupied by the Germans, all Jewish houses synagogues and schools destroyed, several casualties); Stoczek Łukowski (Occupied by the Germans, destroyed in bombardments)' Kutno (damaged in bombardments especially the Jewish sections, multiple casualties among refugees at train station); Sieradz (badly damaged by incendiary bombs, the Jewish population fled); Sierpc (Occupied by the Germans, bombarded, Jewish businesses looted, Jews conscripted to forced labor, several of the heads of community killed); Kaluszyn (Occupied by the Germans, many Jewish casualties in bombardment); Łaskarzew (Occupied by the Germans, bombarded, no houses left intact, eighty Jews shot by the Germans); and Dunayev (two hundred Jewish shot by the Germans). This is part of a survey of Jewish communities conducted by a committee of reporters and public figures in Vilnius, Lithuania, in December 1939 concerning the state of Polish Jews under the German occupation. Przasnysz (Poland), Gąbin (Poland), Stoczek Lukowski (Poland), Kutno (Poland), Sieradz (Poland), Sierpc (Poland : Powiat), Kałuszyn (Warsaw, Poland), Łaskarzew (Poland), Dunaiv (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
[Condition of Jewish Communities in Wartime, a Survey Pt. 3]