January 10, 1943
The Kopernik Camp in Mińsk Mazowiecki Is Liquidated
Historical context
On 10 January 1943, German forces began liquidating the Kopernik labor camp in Mińsk Mazowiecki.
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- Date
- January 10, 1943
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- 2
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On this day, German forces began liquidating the Kopernik labor camp in Mińsk Mazowiecki. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s account of Guta Tyrangiel records that prisoners resisted and that the Germans set the camp on fire. Her mother, Rachel Tyrangiel, was killed.
The same account dates an earlier roundup of the Mińsk Mazowiecki ghetto to 21 August 1942. A study in the Rocznik Mińsko-Mazowiecki also dates the start of that liquidation to 21 August 1942. People were killed in the town, and others were sent to the rail ramp for Treblinka.
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Sources and further reading
- Guta Tyrangiel in the Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto · United States Holocaust Memorial Museum · United States Holocaust Memorial Museum View source
- Obozy pracy przymusowej dla Żydów w powiecie mińskim w latach 1939–1943 · Ewa Maria Borkowska · Rocznik Mińsko-Mazowiecki View source
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