FEBRUARY

Pictured here are two Jews from the town of Jaroslow, Poland on February 12, 1942.  The Germans entered the city in September, 1939 and immediately impounded Jewish property, while subjecting the Jews to forced labor. Later that month, most of the Jews in Jaroslow (7,000) were taken to the local sports field, robbed of their possessions, and sent across the river into Soviet-held territory. The Jews who remained were expelled to Sieniawa in June 1942 and suffered the fate of the local Jews.

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