During WWII, Czortkow was part of Poland, today it part of Ukraine, about 250 miles southeast of Warsaw, Poland. In the year 1939, there were about 5,000 Jews from about 19,000 people. After the war began, the Soviets marched in, and put an end to the normalcy of the Jewish community (Czortkow, Poland). The Nazis took the Jews with the most power in the community and killed some of them for fear that they would be the ones to lead the rebellions, and used the others in Judenrats, which were Jewish communities within the ghettos, to provide a regular supply of labor in the ghettos (Judenrat Definition).
The ghetto, Lvov, was also the work camp. It was established in late 1941, and by the time it was liquidated, about 20,000 people had died, and at the end of the war, only about 100 people from the work camp had survived. (Lvov Ghetto, Czortkow, Poland). Some of the poeple who lived in the ghetto were moved to the nearby death camp, Belzec, under the impression that they were going to be safe (Belzec Death Camp). The people who managed to escape the ghetto fled to the country-side in Ukraine (Lvov Ghetto).
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