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oapen-20.500.12657-473502023-01-31T18:46:32Z The First to be Destroyed Glowacka-Penczynska, A. Kawski, T. Medykowski, W. Horev, T. Fiction Action & Adventure bic Book Industry Communication::F Fiction & related items::FJ Adventure The Jewish community of the city of Kleczew came into existence in the sixteenth century. It remained large and strong throughout the next four hundred years, and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it constituted 40-60% of the total population. The German army entered Kleczew on September 15, 1939, shortly after the outbreak of World War II. The communities of Kleczew and the vicinity were among the first Jewish collectives in Europe to be totally destroyed. The events presented in this book reveal that the organization of deportations and the methods of mass murder conducted in this district, by Kommando Lange, served as a model that would be applied later in the death camps during the mass extermination of Polish and European Jewry. If so, it was in the woods near Kleczew that the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” began. 2021-03-16T04:31:09Z 2021-03-16T04:31:09Z 2015 book 9781618112859 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47350 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International external_content.pdf Academic Studies Press Academic Studies Press https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618112859 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618112859 ffe92610-fbe7-449b-a2a8-02c411701a23 9781618112859 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Academic Studies Press open access
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The Jewish community of the city of Kleczew came into existence in the sixteenth century. It remained large and strong throughout the next four hundred years, and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it constituted 40-60% of the total population. The German army entered Kleczew on September 15, 1939, shortly after the outbreak of World War II. The communities of Kleczew and the vicinity were among the first Jewish collectives in Europe to be totally destroyed. The events presented in this book reveal that the organization of deportations and the methods of mass murder conducted in this district, by Kommando Lange, served as a model that would be applied later in the death camps during the mass extermination of Polish and European Jewry. If so, it was in the woods near Kleczew that the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” began.
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