"The Jewish population was getting smaller and smaller." —Lublin ghetto survivor Lucine Horn
"The Jewish population was getting smaller and smaller." —Lublin ghetto survivor Lucine Horn #OnThisDay in 1942, German authorities started clearing out the Lublin ghetto. Within a month, they rounded up ghetto residents and sent most of them to the Belzec killing center, where the majority were murdered upon arrival. Because the Nazis forced Lucine and her family to complete work deemed essential, they were temporarily marked safe from the deadly transports. Lucine later managed to escape Lublin and traveled to Warsaw, where she survived the Holocaust by using a false identity. By mid-April 1942, at least 25,000 Jews from the Lublin ghetto had been killed. Most had been sent to Belzec, while hundreds of others had been murdered on the spot in the ghetto or in mass shootings. Pictured here is a deportation from the ghetto. Photo: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research less
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