Looking Back at World War II

Rotunda's gate. The temporary camp for the prisoners of Security Police. ***** I asked Andrzej Dubiel (my 2nd cousin) about family history during WWII. “My father didn't talk about it. My mother sometimes mentioned that her aunt's house was burnt by Germans and they had to run off and had to hide. It was in Sumin, a village near Sabaudia, located about 10 kom north of Sabaudia on the way to Zamość.” ***** Between November 1942 and March 1943, the Germans forcibly removed Jewish people from the area around Tomaszow Lubelski. They were taken to a camp in Zamosc and from there it was determined if their next step was slave labor or a concentration camp. Children were separated from their families. ***** I asked Andrzej what he knew about the Jewish community within the area. He told me, . “When I was younger I didn't realize that there lived so many Jewish here. The Germans destroyed almost all evidence of their lives. The synagogue was torn down, the cemetery was devastated and people forgot about them.” ***** The link about this part of polish history is active on the Facebook Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing_of_Zamojszczyzna_by_Nazi_Germany ***** Here is an interesting website about Jews in Tomaszów.(issues even before 1943) https://sztetl.org.pl/en/towns/t/51-tomaszow-lubelski/99-history/138161-history-of-community ***** Image: By Aung - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1998069