A few years of cooperation between the Museum and Memorial Site in Bełżec and Jan Zaomoyski Secondary School in Zamość resulted in great project that is held regularly during the spring. This year the meeting took place on 29th April. As part of the project, we organize interactive activities for young people entitled “History and annihilation of Jews from the area of Zamość”.

Before the outbreak of World War II, some 12,000 Jews lived in Zamość. Most of them left the city together with the retreating Red Army in 1939. During the German occupation, city’s Jewish population increased due to the deportation from German and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The liquidation action of the Zamość Ghetto began shortly after the opening of the extermination camp in Bełżec. In the autumn of 1942, the Jews in the ghetto were forced to leave the city and go to the transit ghetto in Izbica, from where they were taken to the camps in Bełżec and Sobibór or they were shot at the local Jewish cemetery.

The choice of the subject and date of workshops refers to April 1942, when the Germans organized the first deportation from Zamość to the death camp in Bełżec, and to the anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.