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This is another of those terrible places where Hitler carried parts of his hideous plans against the Jews
Piaski [%CB%88p%CA%B2ask%CA%B2i], formerly Piaski Luterskie, is a town in Poland at the Giełczew river. The town's population is about 2,660 (2004). Administratively it belongs to Powiat of Świdnik of the Lublin Voivodeship. It lies 16 km Southeast of Świdnik.
During the German occupation of Poland in the course of World War II, the town of Piaski became part of the semi-colonial General Government. At the beginning of this period, 4,165 Jews resided in Piaski. In 1940 the Nazi German occupiers established the Piaski ghetto, to imprison not only its own Jewish inhabitants, but also several thousand Jews transported from the Lublin Ghetto as well as from the German Reich. In 1942 the ghetto was liquidated with the use of Reserve Police Battalion 101 from Hamburg. Its inmates, loaded onto Holocaust trains, perished in the nearby Belzec extermination camp.