Przemysl

Learn about the Przemysl ghetto and it's fate during the Holocaust!

Przemysl

Pre-War panorama of Przemysl & Zasanie

Przemysl is a city in Poland, situated on the San River, in the Lvov district, Eastern Galicia and before the Second World War approximately 24,000 Jews lived in Przemysl.

 

The Germans bombed Przemysl on 7 September 1939 and the following day the bombing continued setting fire to the shopping centre Pasaz Gansa.

 

Many of Przemysl inhabitants fled the city, to escape the bombings, and the Germans entered the city for the first time on 15 September 1939, approximately 20, 000 Jews lived in Przemysl, including refugees from western Poland.



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Posted by Holocaust Research Project at 8/27/2007 9:50 AM
Categories: Ghettos
 

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