Introduction
The route commemorates places associated with the tragic history of Jews in Bochnia, and its vicinity, during the Nazi occupation. It consists of 15 points pertaining to the ghetto and its inhabitants. In the middle of March 1941 the German occupying authorities decided to create a district for the Jewish people in Bochnia. The ghetto...
The Synagogue
The synagogue was built by Bochnia Jews during the years 1932 - 1937. Under the Nazis it was desecrated and became a plywood factory and carpentry warehouse. בית הכנסת בנין זה שנבנה בשנים 1932-37 שימש כבית הכנסת הראשי עד ספטמבר 1939. מיד בתחילת הכיבוש הגרמני הוא הוחרם לצרכיהם והם חיללוהו. כאשר הוקמו בתי המלאכה הופעלה בבנין סדנה
Urban Workshops
The Urban workshops, in this and some other buildings, functioned during the years 1941-1943. They provided work for 3 thousand ghetto inhabitants and enabled the ghetto to exist until 1943. The initiator of the workshops was Bochnia Jew Salomon Greiwer. בתי המלאכה מיוני 1941 ועד חיסול הגטו בספטמבר 1943 פעלו כאן בתי מלאכה שאותם יזמו יהודי
Jewish synagogue
In this area was a Jewish synagogue, desecrated by the Nazis. The kitchen for Urban Workshops' employees was situated there. בית המדרש של חסידי סדיגורה כאן התקיים בית המדרש של חסידי סדיגורה. במהלך המלחמה הוא חולל על ידי הגרמנים, שהפעילו בו מטבח עבור היהודים שהועסקו בבתי המלאכה
Jewish Residential District – the ghetto
In March 1941 the Nazis formed a Jewish residential district in Bochnia, the ghetto. As a result of three liquidation actions (August 1942, November 1942 and September 1943) the ghetto was closed down and its inhabitants were executed or deported to Bełżec, Auschwitz, Płaszów and Szebnie camps. הגטו במרץ 1941 הקימו הגרמנים את הגטו וכלאו בו את
The assembly area in the ghetto
During 1 - 4 September 1943, on the square between Bracka St. and Kowalska St., the Nazis gathered together several thousand Jews who were still alive. The sick and the elderly were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp, and the healthy to the labour camp in Szebnie. At the beginning of September 1943 hundreds of Jews were shot
The building of the Judenrat and the prison
In this building were located the Jewish Council (Judenrat), the Jewish Police (Judischer Ordnungsdienst), and the cells where arrested Jews were tortured. משכן היודנראט ובית הכלא בתקופת קיומו של הגטו שכנה כאן המועצה היהודית (יודנראט), המשטרה היהודית (אורדנונגסטדינסט) וכן הכלא, שבו התרחשו התעללויות ועינויים
Place where the Jews were burnt
On 4th September 1943, at the end of Solna Góra St., the Nazi occupation forces burned about 300 Jewish corpses. Of these, were those shot at the assembly area, plus about 200 others shot on the high embankment on the opposite side of the street. They were discovered after they had tried to hide. האנדרטה
The monument to the Victims of the Holocaust from Bochnia and the surrounding area
The initiators and founders of the monument were: Miriam Romm, Rachel Kollender and the Association of Bochnia Jews in Israel (2006). The monument is by a world famous sculptor from Israel - Yael Artzi. It shows the stone tablets with the Ten Commandments, broken in half and defaced, to symbolize moral destruction during the Holocaust. האנדרטה
Hospital and orphanage
In the building located across the street was an Isolation Hospital for the ghetto residents which was closed down on 25 August 1942. The staff and patients were killed in the Niepołomice Forest (Baczków). Afterwards, an orphanage was opened here for dozens of Jewish children, but was closed in November 1942. The children and staff...
Tragedy of Ackerman family, The underground bunker
Here in July 1942 the Nazis shot dozens of people, including the family of Majer Ackermann, a Bochnia cabman. On 15 December 1942 an underground bunker was discovered on the family property and the Jews who were hiding in it were shot. The bunker itself was destroyed with grenades. הטרגדיה של משפחת אקרמן – הבונקר התת
The boundary line of the ghetto “A” and the ghetto “B”
On 1 January 1943 the Nazis turned the ghetto into a forced labour camp (Zwangsarbeitslager). Ghetto "A" was built, and the remaining northern part (ghetto "B") housed those unfit to work. The border ran along today's Galasa St. Both ghettos were liquidated on 4 September 1943. קו הגבול בין גטו "א" וגטו "ב לאורך רחוב גלאסה סומן הגבול
Former military barracks
On 25 August 1942, across the street, in the courtyard of the barracks, the Nazis gathered approx. 3,000 Jews and deported them to the death camp in Bełżec. מתחם הקסרקטין הצבאי בשטח ממול, ששימש כחצר קסרקטין צבאי, אספו הגרמנים, באוגוסט 1942, כ-3000 יהודים ושלחו אותם למחנה ההשמדה בלז'ץ
Jewish Cemetery
Numerous Jews were executed in the Jewish cemetery, and it was the burial place of many other Jews murdered both in and outside the ghetto. The cemetery was vandalised by the Nazis and many tombstones were broken or taken away. בית העלמין היהודי ברחוב קשונצ'קוב בבית העלמין היהודי התחבאו במהלך מלחמת העולם השנייה יהודים מהסביבה.
District Court Courtyard
On 10 November 1942, 146 Jews from the prison in Wiśnicz were brought here to complete the required quota of 1,000 people to be sent to the concentration camp. 3 of them who were ill, and thus unfit for transport, were shot in the courtyard of the Court. 21 other Jews were killed in the Jewish
Municipal cemetery
In the years 1942-1945, the German police shot between 500 and 600 Jews and Poles here. בית הקברות העירוני בשנים 1942-1945 רצחו הגרמנים בבית הקברות למעלה מ-500 אנשים, פולנים ויהודים כאחד
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