Zawady listing from Polish Business Directories
(Ksiega Adresowa Polski)
Zawady listing from Polish Business Directories
(Ksiega Adresowa Polski)
Location
Latitude 53 deg 09 min, Longitude 22 deg 39 min
6 km SSW of Tykocin (Tiktin)
40 km W of Bialystok
40 km E of Lomza
Zawady, Poland
Also known as Zawada
Layout of Jewish Zawady ca. April, 1939
Houses numbered only for matching to spreadsheet
Photos & index of Zawady and its former Jewish residents
Holocaust in Zawady
Yahzreit (memorial) dates
August 25, 1941 (2 Elul)
“The Fate of the Jews of Zawady”
Excerpt from pp 37-38 of a book entitled: Deliverance, the Diary of Michael Maik
(2004, Keterpress Enterprises; Laia Ben Dov, translator; Avigdor Ben Dov, editor)
“...the Jews of Tiktin praised "their" Germans for the way they treated them. Suddenly, on 2 Elul (1941), the Germans ordered the Jews of Tiktin to gather in the town square and line up in rows. The congregation of Jews, numbering about 3000 souls...filled the square.... At the gathering place, they were informed that they were being transferred, apparently to the Bialystok Ghetto. From the town square, the Tiktin people were taken to the nearby village of Zawady, a place where eight Jewish families lived at the time. The Germans joined the Jews of the village to the Jews from Tiktin and brought them all back to Tiktin, to the courtyard of the synagogue. There, they divided the Jews into groups and loaded them onto vehicles. The direction in which they travelled was towards the forests of Lupuchowo.
“At that location, the robbers had prepared deep and wide pits well in advance. Poles from the area were informed to tell the pits were intended to store kerosene. The "good" Germans of Tiktin threw their victims into the pits of Lupuchowo. Some of them were shot to death, but most of them were buried alive.”
More general Holocaust information resources
Search the Yad Vashem Database and Pages of Testimony (click here)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum resources (click here)
Search Engines at JewishGen.org
(may or may not contain specific information about Zawady)
JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) (click here)
JRI-Poland and JewishGen All Poland database (click here)
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