The Izbica ghetto was a Jewish ghetto created by Nazi Germany in Izbica in occupied Poland during World War II, serving as a transfer point for deportation of Jews from Poland, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to Bełżec and Sobibór extermination camps. [1]

Izbica pronounced ['izˈbit͡sa] (Yiddish: איזשביצע Izhbitz, Izhbitze) is a town in the Krasnystaw County of the Lublin Voivodeship in eastern Poland. [1] It is the seat of the gmina administrative district called Gmina Izbica. It lies approximately 13 km (8 mi) south of Krasnystaw and 59 km (37 mi) south-east of the regional capital ...

The Izbica massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Izbicës; Serbian: Pokolj u Izbici) was one of the largest massacres of the Kosovo War. [1][3][4] Following the war, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) found that the massacre resulted in the deaths of at least 93 Kosovar Albanians, mostly male non-combatant civilians betw...

Izbica (Nad Wieprzem) is located 36 miles south-east of Lublin. The last census taken before the Second World War recorded around 4,500 Jews living in this typical Jewish shtetl. The Germans first occupied Izbica on 15 September 1939 and immediately on entering Izbica, they seized goods from Jewish shops as a ‘tribute.’.

Izbica a small town nestling in the valley of the river Wieprz – surrounded by the rolling hills of the Roztocze, was probably the most unusual of Jewish shtetls in Poland. Izbica was established by Antoni Granowski, the Starost of Tarnogora in 1750 as a town designated for the Jews dispossessed by their Christian neighbours.

Isbica) – miasto w Polsce położone w województwie lubelskim, w powiecie krasnostawskim, w gminie Izbica [3][4]. Siedziba gminy Izbica. W latach 1954–1972 wieś należała i była siedzibą władz gromady Izbica. W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość położona była w …

It took Jan Karski two days to recover from a visit to the transit ghetto in Izbica. The Germans turned the Jewish town near Zamość into a transfer point for Jews from Poland, the Czech Republic and Western Europe, who were then transported to …

Izbica is a town in the Lublin district. After the German occupation in September, 1939, the town was designated a relocation center for Jews from western Poland and, later on, from Germany and Czechoslovakia. A Judenrat was created in 1940.

Most of the Jews carried on earning their living from the traditional means of trade and crafts. According to data supplied by the Joint Distribution Committee there were in 1921 in Izbica 166 Jewish workshops, 108 of them in tailoring, 28 in building, and 32 in food; altogether 334 employees, most of whom worked in the clothing trade.

Izbica Poland. In 1941 a transit ghetto was established in this small town northwest of Zamość. More than 25,000 Jews from Poland and the Greater German Reich passed through here before being deported to Sobibor or Bełżec. The local cemetery was the site of …