Sosnowiec Ghetto

The Sosnowiec Ghetto
Ghetto in Sosnowiec
Deportation of Jews from the Sosnowiec Ghetto
Sosnowiec
Sosnowiec
Sosnowiec location north of Auschwitz during the Holocaust in Poland
Sosnowiec Ghetto is located in Poland
Sosnowiec Ghetto
Sosnowiec Ghetto
Location of Sosnowiec in Poland today
LocationSosnowiec, German-occupied Poland
50°17′50″N 19°09′25″E / 50.29722°N 19.15694°E / 50.29722; 19.15694[1]
Incident typeImprisonment, forced labor, starvation, transit to extermination camps
OrganizationsSchutzstaffel (SS)
CampAuschwitz
Victims35,000 Polish Jews

The Sosnowiec Ghetto (German: Ghetto von Sosnowitz) was a World War II ghetto set up by Nazi German authorities for Polish Jews in the Środula district of Sosnowiec in the Province of Upper Silesia. During the Holocaust in occupied Poland, most inmates, estimated at over 35,000 Jewish men, women and children were deported to Auschwitz death camp aboard Holocaust trains following roundups lasting from June until August 1943.[2] The ghetto was liquidated during an uprising, a final act of defiance of its Underground Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB) made up of youth. Most of the Jewish fighters perished.

The Sosnowiec Ghetto formed a single administrative unit with the Będzin Ghetto,[3] because both cities are a part of the same metropolitan area in the Dąbrowa Basin. Prior to deportations, the Jews from the two ghettos shared the "Farma" vegetable garden allocated to Zionist youth by the Judenrat.[4]

  1. ^ "PLAN GETTA W BĘDZINIE I SOSNOWCU". Wirualny Sztetl. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  2. ^ H.E.A.R.T (2007). "Fourth Deportation: Sunday 1 August 1943". The Extermination of the Jews of Sosnowiec, Bendzin and Vicinity: 2nd June 1945. Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  3. ^ Dawid Fischer. "The Ghetto of Sosnowiec (Srodula)". Holocaust Testimonies. PolishJews.org. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  4. ^ "Jewish youth at the "Farma" collective". Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Archived from the original on 10 December 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2016 – via Internet Archive. The "Farma" was a plot of land between Bedzin and Sosnowiec that was allocated to the local Zionist youth movements by the Jewish Council for the growing of vegetables.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)