Editing Parczew (section)

== Jews in Parczew ==
An organized Jewish community existed in the town since the early 16th century. Just before the outbreak of World War II the Jewish community numbered 5,000, more than half of the town's population.  During the German [[occupation of Poland]] the Jews were first [[Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland|confined to a ghetto]] crammed with inhabitants of neighbouring settlements as well. In the course of [[The Holocaust in occupied Poland|the Holocaust]], on August 19, 1942 the Nazi German [[Reserve Police Battalion 101]] aided by the [[Trawniki men]] rounded up and deported 3,000 Jews to [[Treblinka extermination camp]]; 2,000 more Jews were loaded onto [[Holocaust trains]] and murdered upon arrival.<ref name="Robertson"/> The battalion returned to Parczew with the same company of [[Hiwis]] in October 1942.<ref name="Nowak">Anna Nowak (2014). [http://www.holocaust.myoptimus.com/strona-glowna/3-zaglada-zydow-na-podlasiu-holocaust/3-2-dzialania-eksterminacyjne-batalionu-policyjnego-101/  "Działania eksterminacyjne batalionu policyjnego 101"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020170920/http://www.holocaust.myoptimus.com/strona-glowna/3-zaglada-zydow-na-podlasiu-holocaust/3-2-dzialania-eksterminacyjne-batalionu-policyjnego-101/ |date=2014-10-20 }} [Police Battalion 101 extermination actions] in Polish. Uniwersytet Marii Curie Skłodowskiej.</ref> There were 5,000 more Jews in the ghetto. They were massacred in a mass shooting action and deported, at which point the town was declared ''[[Judenfrei]]'' ("free of Jews").<ref name="Robertson">Struan Robertson (2006). [https://web.archive.org/web/20070913012451/http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/rz3a035//police101.html  "Hamburg Police Battalions during the Second World War"] ([[Internet Archive]]). Retrieved 20 October 2014.</ref> The [[Parczew partisans]] anti-Nazi fighter group operated in the forests around the town, which included Jewish men and women who managed to escape the slaughter.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}