Category:Piotrkow Ghetto (subject)

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Piotrkow Ghetto (see Holocaust Children Studies)

Overview

In October 1939 the ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski was the first Jewish ghetto of World War II set up in occupied Poland. Approximately 25,000 people from Piotrków and the nearby towns and villages were imprisoned there. During the Holocaust 22,000 were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp, while 3,000 were imprisoned in other Nazi concentration camps.