[1] A year and a half later, the liquidation of the ghetto began in August 1942, and ended in July 1944, with approximately 30,000–32,000 victims (men, women and children) deported aboard Holocaust trains to their deaths at the Treblinka extermination camp.

[3] On 30 November 1939 the SS-Gruppenführer Fritz Katzmann from Selbstschutz who led the murder operations earlier in Wrocław,[4] and in Katowice,[5] was appointed the SS and Police Leader (SSPF) of occupied Radom.

[3] Nevertheless, the precious metal holdings were already depleted because the Radom Jews – especially the Jewish women from "Wizo" – made massive donations to Polish air-force fund for months before the invasion.

To instill fear, the Jewish city councilor Jojna (Yona) Zylberberg was marched with a stone over his head and beaten by the SS soldiers.

[3] His wife died in an accident at home only months earlier by falling out of a window when she tried to hang sheers, leaving her two children behind.

[7] Around December 1939 – January 1940 the Judenrat was established to serve as an intermediary organization between the German command and the local Jewish community.

In December, the German Governor-General Hans Frank stationing in Kraków ordered the expulsion of 10,000 Jews from the city.

Most of the ghetto area was not walled; the barriers were formed by the buildings themselves and the exits were managed by Jewish and Polish police.

Among the Polish rescuers of Jews, the most prominent role belonged to Dr. Jerzy Borysowicz [pl],[10] director of the mental hospital in Radom located at Warszawska Street.

Borysowicz treated Mordechai Anielewicz, leader of the Jewish Combat Organization instrumental in engineering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

A group of villagers from around Ciepielów near Radom including Piotr Skoczylas and his eight-year-old daughter Leokadia were burned alive by a police battalion on 6 December 1942 for sheltering Jews.

[13] On the same day, another barn full of people was set on fire in nearby Rekówka, and 33 Poles saving Jews were burned alive including the families of Obuchiewicz, Kowalski, and 14 Kosiors.