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Cmentarz Żydowski w Rejowcu

Also known as Jewish Cemetery Rejowiec

Rejowiec, Powiat chełmski, Lubelskie, Poland

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The cemetery is in the town of Rejowiec, which is not an option in the drop-down box. Rejowiec is about 63 kilometers east of Lublin. Please see the attached map for the location of the cemetery.


The cemetery was destroyed by the Nazis during the war, and by other residents of Rejowiec after the liberation. The area of the cemetery has been cleaned up and fenced, and a small monument was erected of broken tombstones found in the cemetery. The plaque at the bottom of the monument says, "In honor of the memory of the Jews from Rejowiec, murdered during the Holocaust".


Rejowiec Ghetto was used as a transfer point to the nearby extermination camps. In April and May of 1942, more than 6,000 Jews from Slovakia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Germany were transferred through Rejowiec. Those in the Ghetto who could not be transported, because they were too sick from the living conditions or starvation and the elderly, were shot in the Ghetto. This included children and infants whose mothers were killed.


About 675 prisoners were left in Rejowiec to work at various labor sites and in forced labor camps. Most of these were transferred to Majdanek Concentration Camp in 1943, where they were killed. By July of 1944, when the allied forces were closing in on the Germans, the remaining 16 Jews left in Rejowiec were executed.

The cemetery is in the town of Rejowiec, which is not an option in the drop-down box. Rejowiec is about 63 kilometers east of Lublin. Please see the attached map for the location of the cemetery.


The cemetery was destroyed by the Nazis during the war, and by other residents of Rejowiec after the liberation. The area of the cemetery has been cleaned up and fenced, and a small monument was erected of broken tombstones found in the cemetery. The plaque at the bottom of the monument says, "In honor of the memory of the Jews from Rejowiec, murdered during the Holocaust".


Rejowiec Ghetto was used as a transfer point to the nearby extermination camps. In April and May of 1942, more than 6,000 Jews from Slovakia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Germany were transferred through Rejowiec. Those in the Ghetto who could not be transported, because they were too sick from the living conditions or starvation and the elderly, were shot in the Ghetto. This included children and infants whose mothers were killed.


About 675 prisoners were left in Rejowiec to work at various labor sites and in forced labor camps. Most of these were transferred to Majdanek Concentration Camp in 1943, where they were killed. By July of 1944, when the allied forces were closing in on the Germans, the remaining 16 Jews left in Rejowiec were executed.

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