Tarłów [ˈtarwuf] is a village (a town in 1550–1870) in Opatów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland.

The history of Tarłów dates back to 1550, when a local nobleman, Andrzej Tarło, founded the town named after himself, which replaced the already existing village of Czekarzewice.

During the Deluge, Swedish invaders destroyed and ransacked most of Lesser Poland's towns, including Tarłów.

In 1851, when Tarłów already belonged to the Russian-controlled Congress Poland, it almost completely burned - all that remained were four houses and the church.

Jacob Joshua Falk (1680-1756) the famous Talmudist and author of the Pene Yehoshua was Rabbi in Tarłów for a time.

[4] There he founded the Eitz Chaim school[5] (which still exists today),[6] before moving to Montreal in 1919, where he served as one of its most prominent rabbis, until 1935, when he died at the age of seventy-five.

May the descendants of Tarlow's Jews honor their memory through the observance of Torah and Mitzvot and by creating peace in the world.

Professor Grzegorz Berendt, Director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, with roots in Tarlow, served as the historical consultant for the film.

[15] The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk (Muzeum II Wojny Światowej w Gdańsku) produced the documentary with footage prepared by the regional TV station about Tarłów, specifically made to help restore the memories of approximately 7,000 Jews who were gathered and sent from the Tarlow ghetto to Treblinka on October 19, 1942, to be exterminated.

The code name of what was then, a secret German plan in World War II to exterminate Polish Jews in German-occupied Poland.

On that same day, 80 years later (October 19, 2022), the film was premiered in Gdańsk at the Muzeum II Wojny Światowej w Gdańsku.

He also thanked the filmmakers for taking part the film's topic and the witnesses who had the courage to step in front of the camera and speak about these events."

These witnesses are: Anna Kołsut, Lucyna Medyńska, Zygmunt Sitarski, Józef Janowski, Jan Wieczerzak, Marek Soczewiński, Dr. Wawrzyniec Sadkowski.

[16] In the fall of 1939 in Tarłów, all stores, craft workshops and other businesses or companies had to be officially registered and Germany imposed a ban on social, cultural and political life for Jewish people.

Witness testimony commented how a person who, just a few months prior, was a citizen of a large state with rights, was suddenly an outsider left vulnerable to any type of cruel treatment.

The culmination of testimony all state that Tarlow was a place of terror and violence, with examples of forced labor, Particularly the phosphate mines.

A document is shown in the film, urgently requesting medical supplies (medicine and bandages) for the 100 men working in the mines.

The film offers eye witness testimony of the gathering of Jews from nearby settlements, the displacing of thousands of people, and the violent, explicit actions of the German soldiers.

During this displacement, seven marching columns were formed, and at noon they set off in twenty minute intervals to the train station in Jasice, 21 km away.

[19] A plaque was revealed in Tarlow on May 7, 2022, to honor Lieutenant Colonel Stanislaw Poziomek, who was a commander of the 304th Bomb Squadron during World War II and a recipient of the Knight of the Order of Virtuti Militari award.