Nowy Sącz Ghetto
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The Nowy Sącz Ghetto known in German as Ghetto von Neu-Sandez and in Yiddish as צאנז (Tsanz; Zanc) or נײ-סאנץ (Nay-Sants; Nojzanc) was a World War II ghetto set up by Nazi Germany for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of Polish Jews in the city of Nowy Sącz pronounced [ˈnɔvɨ ˈsɔnt͡ʂ] during the occupation of Poland (1939–45).[2]
The Nowy Sącz Ghetto | |
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Location of Nowy Sącz in Poland today | |
Location | 49.6333°N 20.7166°E / 49.6333; 20.7166 |
Date | 1939–1942 |
Incident type | Imprisonment, mass shooting, forced labor, starvation, deportations to death camps |
Perpetrators | Nazi SS, Orpo police battalions |
Camp | Bełżec extermination camp[1] |
Victims | 20,000 Polish Jews |
The relocation of Jews continued ever since the German army rolled into Nowy Sącz on 6 September 1939 in the first week of the invasion of Poland. Synagogues and prayer houses were devastated and turned into storehouses.[3] The Ghetto was filled with 18,000 prisoners from the city and all neighbouring settlements and closed off from the outside officially in June 1941. It was liquidated one year later with all Jewish men, women and children rounded up and sent aboard Holocaust trains to Bełżec extermination camp in late August 1942.[2]