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This project aims to collect all of the profiles of persons who were inmates of the Ghetto at Belzyce Ghetto near Lublin.
Please see this article for a full description of the May 1942 deportation of Jews to Belzyce Ghetto: http://db.yadvashem.org/deportation/transportDetails.html?language=...
Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurde ein Ghetto für Juden errichtet. Die Zahl der Juden im Ort hatte sich bis dahin etwa auf 2000 belaufen, sie stieg nun durch die Ghettoisierung des Umlandes und durch Deportationen aus dem annektierten Westpolen, aus Krakau und Lublin auf ca. 4000. Unter ihnen waren mehrere hundert deutsche Juden, die im Februar und März 1940 aus Stettin deportiert worden waren; zudem kamen 1002 Personen am 10. Mai 1942 mit einem Zug aus Leipzig.[1] Am 22. Mai 1942 wurde das Ghetto aufgelöst, die Insassen in andere Zwangsarbeitslager oder in Vernichtungslager deportiert.
The German army entered the town in mid-September 1939, and the Jewish population became subject to the persecution and terror carried out throughout Lublin Province. In February 1940 about 300 Jews from Stettin (then Germany) were deported to Belzyce. In February and March 1941 about 500 Jews from Cracow and another 500 from Lublin were forced to settle there. On May 12, 1942, several thousand Jews from central Germany (Sachsen and Thuringen) arrived. The town's Jewish population grew to about 4,500 by the time the mass deportations to the death camps began. In spring 1942, the Germans conducted an Aktion to liquidate the remaining Jews in Belzyce. They rounded up over 3,000 Jews for extermination at Sobibor. Subsequently the Germans established a concentration camp in Belzyce in a few houses around the destroyed synagogue. In May 1943 the Belzyce camp was liquidated. Several hundred Jews, mostly women and children, were shot, while another 250 women and 350 men were sent to Benzin, where only a handful survived. After the war the Jewish community in Belzyce was not reconstituted.[Source: Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0003_...