Purim - Before, During, and After the Holocaust

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Pictured here are children performing a play during Purim in Wieliczka, Poland in 1942. Many men fled the town with the approach of the Germans in 1939. More men were murdered when the Germans arrived. Wieliczka became the only town with an all female Judenrat. Women also performed the forced labor until the men returned. On August 26, 1942 a large scale Aktion occurred during which many Jews were murdered, while the majority were sent to the Belzec death camp.

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