Końskowola Ghetto

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Końskowola is only a small village yet much happened there in the past. It has an odd name - in Polish it means horse's will.
During WW2 it was captured by the Nazis around 15 September 1939. A POW camp was set up there which was closed quite quickly and the prisoners were taken elsewhere. There was also a slave labour camp where prisoners were forced to do mainly agricultural work.
The ghetto was set up in 1941 (I think) and people were transported here from nearby villages and towns such as Kazimierz Dolny. The latter was an ancient Jewish settlement - a shtetl where Jews outnumbered Catholics by three to one. Nonetheless they were quickly transported to Końskowola and the SS attempted to turn Kazimierz Dolny into some sort of a recreational facility for themselves.
There are photographs in the US Holocaust Museum (available on line) which show some of the buildings shown here.
People also appear to have been brought here from Slovakia as the dictator Father Tiso sold his Jewish population to the Nazis.
There was a large deportation to Sobibór in May 1942 where the population of Końskowola became amongst the first victims of that death camp.
In October 1942, Police Battalion 101 from Hamburg arrived in the village and murdered most of the remaining population although some people appear to have been taken elsewhere.

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[Drifter0001]

I lived there for 9 years. Good times.Your opening scene to the left the church and to the right the school I went to.

[alanheath]

@Drifter0001 Excellent! I wanted to go there for a long time - it is mentioned as a reference in so many sources yet little is known of it!

[westcliff148]

I found some photos of Konskowola from the USHMM, but no real identifiable buildings that I can tell, but I haven't really studied them in detail

[alanheath]

@westcliff148 One picture of a Wachmann with his dog is clearly the street which is on the right at the beginning for example.