6. Parczew - Cmentarz żydowski (róg ul. Parkowej i 11 Listopada)

Jewish cemetery (corner of Parkowa and 11 Listopada Streets) - It was probably delineated at the end of the 16th century.Its existence is confirmed by sources from 1617. It was located northeast of the market, at the fork of the roads leading to Lubartow and Przewloka.During World War II, the Germans carried out executions of the Jewish population there. It was devastated, no matzevot survived on it.After the war, a city park was established on its grounds. In 1979. erected a monument dedicated to the Polish Army soldiers buried here, but there was no information on the nationality of the victims. Later, the son of one of the murdered - Abram Solomonovich - erected a monument next to it in honor of the 280 soldiers, with the information that they were Jewish. There is a matzeva found in the cemetery.Holocaust - In November 1939. The first mass execution of Parczew's Jews took place. February 18 and 20, 1940. Wehrmacht and SS units shot 350 Jewish prisoners of war, going in what was known as the "Jewish Prisoner of War". The death march from Lublin to Biała Podlaska. The bodies of the murdered were buried in a mass grave in the local Jewish cemetery. In March 1941. A ghetto was established in the area of Szeroka and Boznicza Streets, where, in addition to the residents of Parczew, there were Jewish displaced persons from Lubartow (from November 1939), Radzyn and Warta Land (from December 1939), Jews from Krakow and Lublin (from March and April 1941), as well as approx. 2,000 residents of surrounding towns, including. Czemierniki, Wohynia and Kock (resettled in mid-August 1942, during the first deportation action).On August 19-25, 1942, the Germans deported approx. 5500 Jews from the Parczew ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp.Some of the Jews from the ghetto were transferred to a labor camp in nearby Romaszki, where they worked on land reclamation work. The liquidation of the Parczew ghetto began on October 2, 1942. About 100 people were shot on the spot, while the others were resettled in the ghetto in Miedzyrzec Podlaski, from where they were transferred between October and May 1943. were deported to Treblinka or Majdanek. A small group of Jewish workers remained in the residual (secondary) ghetto in Parczew, and were murdered by the Germans in 1943. A group of Jews who escaped from the ghetto and transports were hiding in the forests near Parczew. Some of them formed Jewish partisan groups, including. Troops commanded by Chil Grynszpan and Aleksandr Skotnicki, alias.Zemsta.