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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.
The Germans immediately began to humiliate the Jewish inhabitants and started to arrest members of the Jewish intelligentsia, physicians, lawyers, industrialists and Jewish political activists. Forty-three leading Jewish citizens were arrested, taken for forced labour, savagely beaten and then shot. Among the forty-three was Asscher Gitter, whose son had emigrated to the United States in 1938, hoping that one day his father would join him.
Jews were taken from their dwellings by members of the Sicherheitspolizei or were rounded up on the streets and taken to nearby woods surrounding Przemysl where they were shot and buried in communal graves.
The first mass executions of approximately 600 Jews took place between 16 and 19 September 1939, at a number of places in the cities outskirts, these included Lipowica, Pralkowce also at Przekopana near the Wiar River and near the Jewish cemetery at Slowackiego Street.
On 23 September 1939 notified the inhabitants of Przemysl that the San River was the demarcation line between the German and Soviet areas. On 28 September 1939 the Soviets took possession of the city. Shortly before the withdrawal the Germans burnt down the Old Synagogue, the Klois, the Hassidic prayer house, the Tempel Synagogue on Jagiellonska Street and parts of the Jewish quarter.
Read the full article about Przemysl HERE
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Categories: Poland the ghetto at Przemysl
This piece on Przemysl at www.holocaustresearchproject.org should be considered the "definitive" authority on the Ghetto there and its history. I was born in Przemysl and even in Poland it is difficult to find such a well prepared page.
Thank you.
Jan
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From: Alan Newark, Leeds, England-UK, LS13 3RW
Date: 14 November 2011
FAO: Secretary and Research Staff, WWW.HOLOCAUSTRESEARCHPROJECT.ORG
Tag: Przemysl German Police General(s) / German units early 1944
Dear Friends
Best wishes from a Scottish freelance journalist and researcher here in sunny Leeds in North-East England.
Please can you help me / an established UK author?
Below is a research request appeal which I recently submitted to the Gazeta Polska newspaper and with which I hope I can be helped by their staff and readers.
'Przemysl SS-Police General(s) 1944
On behalf of an established and mainstream UK author and expert on the SS 14th Galicia Division, who is interested in that division's short-lived Kampfgruppe Beyersdorf, which fought General Kovpak's Soviet 1st Ukrainian Partisan Division in Eastern Galicia and the Carpathian Mountains in early-1944, I am trying to establish:
WHO was the, presumably German. 'Police General' based in Przemysl in the early months of 1944 who reportedly oversaw German military operations against the Kovpak partisans in that region and who were ANY of the known senior German Police commanders?
WHICH German military and Police units were based in the town in the first half of 1944 and is anything known of their anti-partisan operations?'.
I would like to conduct some research and to compile a www.feldgrau.com forum item and, perhaps, an article or two for other mainstream outlets, using information from your website's Pzremysl page and other pages and hope that you can grant me permission to utilise such information.
I also hope that your colleagues can help me and the above author, Mike Melnyk, to identify the anonymous 'German Police general in Peremyshyl (sic)' for whose identity he has, for over twenty years, been searching. I have Mike's authority to conduct these queries on his behalf.
I hope that your team can help and look forward to your / their reply.
Best..Alan Newark
http://www.dpcamps.org (1st Vice-President)
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