Stanisławów, incorporated into the USSR in the autumn of 1939, was taken by the Hungarians on 2 July 1941 and by the Germans on 26 July; for some 25,000 Stanisławów Jews this was the beginning of the Holocaust. In August the Gestapo shot hundreds of Jewish and Polish intelligentsia in the Black Forest, and on 12 October between 10,000 and 12,000 Jews were killed in the Jewish cemetery. The survivors were shut in a ghetto, from which thousands were deported to their deaths at Bełżec in September 1942.
1941
- 2 July 1941EventThe Hungarians in StanisławówOn 2 July 1941 Hungarian troops entered Stanisławów, abandoned by the Red Army. In late July the Germans took over, and with them came the Holocaust.
- 2 August 1941EventThe Black Forest massacre near StanisławówOn 2 August 1941 the Stanisławów Gestapo summoned Jewish and Polish intellectuals to “register”. Hundreds were shot in the Black Forest near Pawełcze.
- 12 October 1941EventBloody Sunday in StanisławówOn 12 October 1941 German police shot between 10,000 and 12,000 Jews – men, women and children – in the Jewish cemetery in Stanisławów.
- 28 October 1941EventThe first action in BolechówOn 28 October 1941 the Stanisławów Gestapo and Ukrainian police seized about 1,000 Jews in Bolechów. Next day several hundred were shot in Taniawa forest.
- 1 December 1941EventThe Stanisławów GhettoFrom 1 December 1941 some 20,000 Jews of Stanisławów were forced to move into a ghetto, which the Germans sealed off from the rest of the town on 20 December.
1942
- 22 August 1942EventThe massacre of Jews in StanisławówOn 22 August 1942, in a “reprisal action”, the Germans shot over 1,000 Jews in Stanisławów and hanged the Judenrat chairman and about 20 policemen.
- 12 September 1942EventThe deportation of Jews from Stanisławów to BełżecOn 12 September 1942, Rosh Hashanah, German police rounded up thousands of Jews in the Stanisławów ghetto and sent them to their deaths at the Bełżec camp.
1944
People
Born or died here
- Stanisław SosabowskiCommander of the 21st “Children of Warsaw” Infantry Regiment (1939), commander of the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade (1941–1944)