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Broadside, 13” x 17”, Printed by the members of the Siedlce community in Argentina. Yiddish. Buenos Aires, circa the c1943. With headline (using Google Translate), “He Will Remember the Destruction of the City Siedlce”, continues “May our fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers always be remembered on this sad day. Murdered by the wrath of Hitlerism ... We will never forgive our enemies For the six million killed, Among them our families in Charlotte and Omega ... In eternal fight with our enemies, We remain united and strengthened For the existence of the Jewish people, The Nation Of Israel Lives. ..” Additional, there are two photos, the first, 3-1/2” x 4-1/2” showing “The Ghetto in Siedlce” and another, 6-1/2” x 4” showing four open graves, with caption. “A Brother in the Open”. A Jewish presence in Siedlce is attested since the mid-16th century. Just prior to World War II, it had a Jewish population of around 15,000. About 10,000 Jews were deported to Treblinka in August 1942; the remainder of the Jewish community was liquidated in November, 1942. The Siedlce Ghetto, was a World War II Jewish ghetto set up by Nazi Germany in the city of Siedlce in occupied Poland. During the invasion of Poland, the German Panzer Division Kempf rolled into Siedlce on September 12, 1939 after a fierce battle along the Bug River with the Polish Modlin Army which surrendered soon afterwards. Siedlce was strafed and bombed several times by the Luftwaffe. In early 1942 the Final Solution to the Jewish Question was set in motion by Nazi Germany during the Wannsee Conference and the fate of ghettoised Jews across occupied Poland was sealed. On August 22, 1942 the Siedlce Ghetto liquidation action began in earnest. Around 10,000 Jews were herded into the square on August 22, including all captives brought on foot by Orpo from the transit ghettos in three nearby settlements; 500 men were selected to go back to their work camps. The rest were made to sit on the ground overnight, tormented and shot at. The next day they were assembled into columns and marched to the train station in utter terror; the connecting streets were full of dead bodies. The Jews were crammed into awaiting freight cars and sent to Treblinka. Local Jews were forced into the cemetery on Szkolna Street. The squad of Ukrainian Trawnikis was sent by the Gestapo around noon to conduct a shooting action there in order to inflict terror. In the evening of August 24, 1942 – a day after the first Holocaust transport – some 5,000 to 6,000 people from the cemetery have been sent away to their deaths. Meanwhile, the overall number of Jews shot at the cemetery and thrown into mass graves was 3,000 estimated by the Polish historians. On the day of the "aktion", the Jewish hospital was liquidated, with everyone killed on site either in their beds or out in the courtyard. By August 27, 1942, the ghetto was no more. The town's remaining Jewish slave workers were returned to the "little ghetto" and on November 25, 1942 marched to the Gesi Borek colony under the pretext of reemerging threat of epidemic typhus; several thousand of them were massacred three days later, on November 28th.
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Extraordinary Period Remembrance  Broadside - Period  Printing of the Destruction of the Siedlce Ghetto, Poland

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