Type of place

Information about the crime

In November 2024, we received a report about an unmarked Jewish war grave near the village of Trzebieszów, where members of a Jewish family from Trzebieszów were buried. The burial site is said to be located in a forest belonging to a family that hid the Jewish family during the war. Allegedly, the descendants of the Polish family still light candles at the grave on November 1st.

According to the information we collected, the former parish priest of the Church of the Ten Thousand Martyrs in Trzebieszów at one point appealed to parishioners to provide information about this grave.

A survey conducted by the Regional Commission for the Examination of German Crimes in Lublin states very generally that in 1943, during a mass execution in Trzebieszów, the German military police murdered 50 people, Jews and Russians.

The Yad Vashem Holocaust Victims Database lists six individuals who, according to post-war testimonies from their relatives, were murdered in Trzebieszów.

• Chana Rozenwald, born in Trzebieszów in 1917, daughter of Baruch and Genendl, seamstress, unmarried, murdered in Trzebieszów in 1942.
• Symcha Wircer, born in Trzebieszów in 1887, house painter, married to Ryfka, murdered in Trzebieszów in 1941.
• Ryfka Wircer, born in Trzebieszów in 1891, housewife, wife of Symcha.
• Chana Cypora Slepak, born in Trzebieszów, housewife, murdered in Trzebieszów in 1941.
• Grenedl Rozenwald, born in Trzebieszów in 1891, housewife, wife of Baruch, murdered in Trzebieszów in 1941.
• Baruch Rozenwald, born in Trzebieszów in 1884, merchant, husband of Genendl, murdered in Trzebieszów in 1942.

Contact and cooperation

We are still looking for information on the identity of the victims and the location of Jewish graves in Trzebieszów. If you know something more, write to us at the following address: kontakt@zapomniane.org.

Bibliography

IPN Lu 501/50 Surveys of the Regional Commission for the Examination of German Crimes in Lublin collected in 1968-1969 regarding killing sites and crimes committed by the Germans in Łuków district.

IPN Lu 333/57 Case files: Henryk Szydłowski and others suspected of participating in roundups of Jewish people in Trzebieszów during the German occupation.

IPN Lu 504/18 Lists of persons murdered during the German occupation in the Łuków district, compiled by the Presidiums of the District National Councils between 1968 and 1971.

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