[3][4] An estimated 4,000 Jewish people lived there but another 2,000 moved there by 1942, many arriving from Kraków and the surrounding area.

[3][6] After the armbands, exclusion from many businesses and activities followed including from restaurants, parks, and stores.

[3] Having the ghetto open allowed for smuggling of food in by nearby Aryan community.

[3] The Jewish people living in the ghetto were also low on winter apparel and supplies because the German troops seized them to support the invasion of Russia.

During 1942, three Aktions took place in the Brzesko ghetto and were conducted by the Order Police which included people such as Lapsch, Wagner, and Mikler.

On 18 June 1942, 180 Jews were killed in the streets and 560 deported to the Belzec extermination camp for the third Aktion.

[2] In order to accomplish the deportation, all the Jews living in Brzesko were gathered in the square of the town.

[1] Throughout the process of deportation to the death camps, any citizens considered too weak to travel were shot in the town square.

[3] Paulina Tider and her family were part of the group that got Aryan papers to escape Brzesko.

[3] During the deportation, Dr. Jan Brzeski helped some of the Jews who had escaped by keeping them healthy until they could come out of hiding.

[3][6] The division of the Jewish Council was led by Jakub Hendler who also oversaw the counties of Szczurowa and Borzecin.

[3] Additional groups within Brzesko included the Central Organization for Orphan Care (CENTOS, Centralne Towarzystwo Opieki nad Sierotami), Jewish Social Self-Help (JSS, Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe), and Committee for the Aid to Refugees and the Poor.

[17] In 1947, a monument to remember the mass grave of the 200 Jews who died in Brzesko on 18 June 1942 was built in the Jewish cemetery.

[2][5][11] A commemorative plaque is also displayed on a wall of the town library which is located on the previous site of the synagogue of Brzesko.