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Jewish Cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn

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Jewish Cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn
Jewish Cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn
Jewish Cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn
Jewish Cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn
Jewish Cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn
Jewish Cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn
Jewish Cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn
Jewish Cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn
Jewish Cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn
Jewish Cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn
Jewish Cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn
Jewish Cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn
Jewish Cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn
Jewish Cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn
Jewish Cemetery in Szczebrzeszyn
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Cmentarna, Szczebrzeszyn, Poland

Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland were established during World War II in hundreds of locations across occupied Poland. Most Jewish ghettos had been created by Nazi Germany between October 1939 and July 1942 in order to confine and segregate Poland's Jewish population of about 3.5 million for the purpose of persecution, terror, and exploitation. In smaller towns, ghettos often served as staging points for Jewish slave-labor and mass deportation actions, while in the urban centers they resembled walled-off prison-islands described by some historians as little more than instruments of slow, passive murder, with dead bodies littering the streets.In most cases, the larger ghettos did not correspond to traditional Jewish neighborhoods, and non-Jewish Poles and members of other ethnic groups were ordered to take up residence elsewhere. Smaller Jewish communities with populations under 500 were terminated through expulsion soon after the invasion.
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