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A Certificate for Reporting to Forced Labor during the Nazi regime in Zloczow

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Mass Grave of Zloczow's Jewish Residents in 1943

The wave of pogroms swelled during the summer and fall of 1941. In many cities, the first in line to be executed was the intelligentsia. The following are some examples: In Lviv, the Germans demanded a quota to come forward. In Ivano-Frankivsk [Stanislawow] 600 people were murdered in August. In Kolomyia, 200 physicians, lawyers, engineers, and clerks were executed. In Chortkiv, more than 300 victims were killed. Similar stories occurred in other places… (see page 429).

… In November 1941, [concentration] camps were established in Borki Wielkie, Jaktorow, Kamyanky, near Ternopil, Kosow Lacki, Winniki-Ostrov, and Korovitza. Jews from Zloczow were brought to the concentration camp established in Kozaki in January 1942 … (Page 431).

… The ghetto in Zloczow was sealed and surrounded by a barbwire fence in December 1942. Remnants of the Jewish populations from the neighboring towns: Olesko, Sasiv {Sasov], Bialy Kamien, Sokolovka, and other locations crowded in that ghetto. Altogether 9000 Jews resided in the ghetto … (Page 434).

… Rounding operations (Aktisias) also took place in the following locations: in Brody (4500 people), Berezhany (approximately 6000 people), Ternopil (more than 2000 people), Zloczow (80 people were killed on the spot and 1000 were murdered in Belzec camp) … (Page 438).

… The murderous operations continued unabated. Bloody slaughtering has befallen upon the Jewish settlements: Horodenka (September-October – 6000 victims), Zloczow (2 – 3 November – 2500 victims) … (Page 438).

… The number of survivors in Zloczow – 74. Out of 2000 Jewish residents on Gliniani, only 25 survived.

… The poet Shmuel Yaakov Imber was murdered during the second bloody Aktsia in Zloczow … (page 443).

… Gravestones like those from the cemeteries in Lviv, Kolomyia, Gliniani, Zloczow, Ternopil, Rava-Ruska, and many other towns, were used to pave streets and roads. Only a few gravestones, which they could not uproot, remained standing. For example, the “grave-tent” of [Rabbi Avraham Khaim] the author of the book “Orakh Le'Khaim”, and the gravestones of other Tzadik's) remained standing… (page 444).

… Some of the members of the Judenrat in Eastern Galitsia showed courage and refused to blindly serve as instruments in the hands of the German executioners. They were the scapegoats. The murderers poured their fearsome and cruel anger out on them. The first chairman of the Judenrat in Lviv, Dr. Yosef Parnas, paid with his life because he refused to surrender to the demands of the German executioners. Like him, the chairman of the Judenrat in Zloczow, Dr. Sigmund Meiblum, was shot because he refused to sign a document authored by the Germans. That document stated that an Aktsia had to take place because of a typhus epidemic that broke out in the ghetto. The Aktsia occurred on 2nd April 1943 … (Page 447).

… There were bunkers in the ghetto, like the Stersler's Bunker in Zloczow, where twenty-three Jews hid and survived until they were freed … (Page 448).

… Jewish groups from Lviv arrived there [forest underground bunker] accompanied by a Jew who had a “good look” (Arian appearance).

Resistance groups were established in the ghettoes and camps in Toporiv, Zloczow, Kozaki, and Sasiv with the help of the organization of Brody warriors,

The Jewish warriors bombed the turpentine factory near the village of Sokolovka. Acts of sabotage took place in German military and industrial installations. According to Katzmann's Report, a search operation, held in the forest on May 15, 1943. Gendarme brigades, Ukrainian police units, and six Wehrmach battalions participated in that operation. Thirty-three Jewish warriors (named “members of the gang” by the report) were killed … (page 450).

… Attempts to organize partisan groups in the area of Stryj and Zloczow, were only slightly successful. However, some of the rebellious Jewish were renowned. They were feared throughout the entire region due to their daring operations and courageous resistance … (page 452).

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