DEATH AWAITS HIM, FROM TUROBIN TO SOBIBOR, Turobin is a village in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland.
DEATH AWAITS HIM, FROM TUROBIN TO SOBIBOR, Turobin is a village in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, more than 1,400 Jews lived in Turobin. In late September 1939 about one hundred Jews fled the village eastward, together with the withdrawing Red Army. At the beginning of the German occupation, Turobin became a place of concentration for Jews from various regions of Poland. In 1939 about 1250 Jews from Łódź, Koło, Konin and Słupsk were resettled here; in 1940 about 500 Jews from Lublin, and in 1942 several hundred Jews from the neighboring towns and villages were moved to Turobin. In winter 1942 about four or five thousand Jews stayed here. Unlike in other locations, there was no designated ghetto area. The resettled people were accommodated in the buildings located around the market square and in the community buildings, e.g. the synagogue. In April 1942 the Nazis murdered about one hundred Jews. In May almo...