History of the Jews in Adamów

[3] After entering town on 20 September 1939, the German troops formed a Ghetto and a Judenrat was established.

Then, around 300 individuals, mostly elders, were shot to death in the suburbs of Adamów, in a meadow situated western to the church.

Three and four days after, Ukarainian and Polish officers were in charge of sending the Jews of the Ghetto to Treblinka extermination camp.

[6] During the history of the town Jewish community, and especially in the interwar period in the beginning of the 20th century, most of the grocery stores in Adamów were Jewish-owned.

As a result, most of the Jews lived at the city center, which is no longer visible as it was back then because it was set on fire in 1943.

[12] No memorial was erected over the mass grave site although forty Jews were murdered in the cemetery in November 1940.