OYF DI HURVES FUN MAYN HEYM (HURBN SHEDLETS)

Tel-Aviv : Publisher Unknown, 1952. First Edition. Paperback. First edition. Later wrappers, 8vo. 260 pages. 21 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates to "On the Ruins of My Home (The Destruction of Siedlce) . Until the Second World War, like many other cities in Europe, Siedlce had a significant Jewish population. At some times, indeed, Jews were the majority of its population. In 1939, Jews constituted some 37% of the town's population. In March 1941 - still before the formal decision to implement the "Final Solution" which meant the wholesale extermination of the Jews - German Orpo battalions rampaged for three days in Siedlce, killing many of its Jewish inhabitants. In August of the same year the Jews were forced into the new Siedlce Ghetto. It consisted of several small city blocks and over a dozen walkable streets in the city centre. On 1 October 1941 the ghetto was completely cut off from the outside world. In August 1942 some 10, 000 Siedlce Jews were deported to Treblinka and murdered there together with a similar number of Jews from three nearby transit ghettos: in Losice, holding local Jews and families from Huszlew, Olszanka, and Swiniarów; in Sarnaki, with Jews from Górki, Kornica, Lysów; and the third transit ghetto with prisoners from Mordy, Krzesk-Królowa Niwa, Przesmyki, Stok Ruski, and Tarków. The town's remaining Jews imprisoned at the "little ghetto" were sent off to extermination on November 25, 1942. SUBJECTS: Jews -- Poland -- Siedlce. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Siedlce. Jews. Pages are warped, dampstains to outer pages and top of some leaves. Overall Fair Condition, but complete and solid. (YID-27-18).