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. 83 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.

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Program:

- Thursday, October 16, 2025, 5:00 PM - REMEMBRANCE MARCH -meeting at the square by the former New Town Synagogue at Mikołaja Reja Street 11 in Zamość (the square by Kindergarten No. 2). We will plant daffodil bulbs and then walk to the "Zamość Starówka" train station at Peowiaków Street.

- Thursday, October 16, 2025, 6:15 PM - FODŻ "Synagogue" Center, Pereca 14 St., Zamość Henryk Lewandowski (Garfinkel) testimony. Foreword by Marek Kołcon We will present Henryk Lewandowski (Garfinkel) testimony recorded for USC Shoah Foundation in 1996. He was born in 1929, was the son of Dawid, co-owner of the Livonia brewery before the war. He survived the Zamość Ghetto. After its liquidation, he hid in Warsaw, with the help of the "Żegota" organization.

- Friday, October 17, 2025 – educational events for high school students organized by the Bełżec Museum and Memorial Site.

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