4. Józefów Biłgorajski - Miejsce masakry z 1942 roku

Holocaust - In September 1939. With the retreating Red Army, several hundred Jews fled Jozefow to the east.In March 1941. The Germans established a ghetto in Jozefow, in which, in addition to the locals, there were Jews from many neighboring towns, about 600 Jews deported from Konin County and Kazimierz Dolny. In the summer of 1942. There were about 1,800 Jews in the ghetto.In May 1942. A group of Gestapo men from Bilgoraj shot about 120 Jews on the streets of Jozefow. July 13, 1942. After selection, 200-400 young men from the Jozefow ghetto were sent to labor camps in Lublin, while the remaining 1,500 people (mostly women, children and old people) were shot in a mass execution on Winiarczykowa Mountain.The events are commemorated by a stone monument located at the edge of the forest, by the road leading from Jozefow to Bilgoraj. In early November 1942. The remaining Jews from Jozefow were joined by the Germans to one of the transports of Jews from Zwierzyniec and sent all of them to the Belzec death camp.The site of the 1942 massacre on Vinyarkova Mountain. In 2009. By order of the mayor of Jozefow, it was fenced off and the access to it marked.In September 2016. A memorial partially funded by the Hamburg police was unveiled near the mass graves. It bears the following inscription:To the memory of more than 1,500 Jewish children, women and men from Jozefow murdered in the area on July 13, 1942 by German policemen from the 101st Airborne. Reserve Police Battalion from Hamburg. With humility we bow to the victims. Hamburg Police .