Birnbaum

Żmigród
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Жмигруд

In the spring of 1942, the Germans transferred all the Jews from the village of Osiek (Oshick), to Zmigród.
Orders were posted throughout Zmigród that all the Jews must report to the market place on Tuesday, July 7,1942, at 7 AM.
Anyone disobeying the order would be shot.
On July 7,1942, the Germans took the Jews of Zmigród and surrounding villages, 1250 men, women and children, to the wooded area of Halbów, where they were shot.
The Germans covered the pits with lime, and spread sand and dirt over the area.
On Sunday, July 12th, 1942, the surviving Jews were led back to the selection site and about 150 were ordered to mount trucks. to be sent to Plaszow death camp, near Krakow, where they worked and starved.
On August 15th, 1942, the Germans sent skilled Jewish workers to the Zaslav labor camp, while the remaining Jews of Żmigród were then sent in September, 1942, to the Belzec death camp.
The transport stopped in Przemysl, where some young able bodied Jews were removed from the train, while the remainder, iwent to the death camp of Belzec where they all perished.