REMEMBER JEWISH PIASKI, the first deportations from Piaski took place shortly after 16 March 1942, probably to make room for an influx of Jews from the Reich.
REMEMBER JEWISH PIASKI, the first deportations from Piaski took place shortly after 16 March 1942, probably to make room for an influx of Jews from the Reich. Approximately 3,400 Polish Jews and Jews from Stettin, who were deemed as ‘unfit for work,’ were marched to Trawniki, where they were held overnight in a barn at the former sugar refinery, together with some Jews from Biskupice. Several hundred of these people died from suffocation overnight. The next day the corpses were loaded onto the cattle wagons along with the living deportees, to be sent to the Belzec death camp. Transports from the Reich to Piaski began on 23 March 1942, when approximately 1,000 Jews from Mainz and Darmstadt arrived in Piaski. According to Martha Bauchwitz, this transport arrived penniless. Then on 28 March 1942, 985 Jews arrived from Berlin. On 1 April 1942, 1,000 Jews arrived in Piaski from the Theresienstadt fortress ghetto. Working-age Jews from this and the other transports in March 1942, ...