Siedliszcze (; uk, Селище) is a town in Chełm County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It is the seat of the

gmina The gmina (Polish: , plural ''gminy'' , from German ''Gemeinde'' meaning ''commune'') is the principal unit of the administrative division of Poland, similar to a municipality. , there were 2,477 gminas throughout the country, encompassing over 4 ...

(administrative district) called Gmina Siedliszcze. It lies approximately west of Chełm and east of the regional capital

Lublin Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of t ...

. The town has a population of 813.

History

In 1921, there were 666 Jews living in Siedliszcze, representing 80% of the entire village's population. On June 1, 1940, the Nazis created a ghetto in Siedliszcze for the Jewish population. There were about 2,000 Jews from Siedliszcze, Cracow,

and Czechoslovakia in the ghetto. On May 18, 1942 about 630 Jews were sent to the Sobibor extermination camp. The liquidation of the ghetto took place in October 1942 when the rest of the ghetto inmates were sent to the Sobibor extermination camp. During the entire Nazi occupation, shootings of the Jewish population took place at the Jewish cemetery.

References

Cities and towns in Lublin Voivodeship Chełm County Ruthenian Voivodeship Kholm Governorate Lublin Voivodeship (1919–1939) Holocaust locations in Poland {{Chełm-geo-stub