We kindly invite you to the events commemorating the extermination of the ghetto and the Jewish community of Zamość.

On October 16, 1942, the Jewish district in Zamość was brutally liquidated. Traditionally, to commemorate these tragic events, we organize a March of Remembrance and educational program.

We want to commemorate our Jewish neighbors who have been co-creating Zamość for generations, as well as people from other cities and countries who ended up in the Zamość ghetto. Most of them were murdered in German death camps. 82 years ago, on October 16, 1942, the Germans ordered the survived Jews to walk to the ghetto in Izbica. This march, which cost many people their lives, is the symbolic end of the presence of the Jewish community in our city.

Program:

- Tuesday, 15/10/2024, 6:00 PM - What is worth knowing about Jewish cemeteries? - lecture by Krzysztof Bielawski (Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland) - FODŻ "Synagogue" Center - details: https://fb.me/e/5ntEDjHDO

- Wednesday, 16/10/2024, 12:00 PM - "I was young, naive then, and I did not know the greatest plague of humanity - war". The Holocaust of the Zamość Jews in the accounts of witnesses. - lecture by Ewa Koper (Museum and Memorial in Bełżec) - FODŻ "Synagogue" Center - details: https://fb.me/e/5EOd5eTf9

- Wednesday, 16/10/2024, 7:00 PM 16:30 - MEMORY MARCH - we meet at the square by the former New Town Synagogue at Mikołaj Reja 11 St. in Zamość. (square by kindergarten no. 2). We will go to the "Zamość Starówka" train station at Peowiaków St. - details: https://fb.me/e/7DCKjUFKi

The initiative is open to everyone! We do not send individual or official invitations. We ask for the presence of all the people who want to commemorate the Holocaust and the tragic events from WWII.

Partners of the events: Museum and Memorial in Bełżec, Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland.

Social Initiative to Commemorate the Holocaust of Jews in Zamość:
Marek Kołcon, historian
Janusz Kupczyk, City Councilor of Zamość,
Daniel Sabaciński from the Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage

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