Holocaust Document - Rare Ghetto Petrikau ( Piotrkow )

Holocaust Document - Rare Ghetto Petrikau ( Piotrkow )
Rare Ghetto Petrikau (Piotrkow district Radom, Poland) document issued by the Judenrat or Jewish Council regarding some kind information about the address and numbers of the kennkarte of a Jew who lived in the ghetto. Hand-written in Polish. Dated in 1943 using rare and really nice stationery of that rare to see ghetto.The Piotrków Trybunalski Ghetto (Yiddish: פּיִעטריקאָװ‎) was created in Piotrków Trybunalski 38 days after the 1939 Nazi German Invasion of Poland in World War II. It was the first Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe, founded on October 8, 1939, on the general orders of Reinhard Heydrich. After a battle with the Polish Army resulting in heavy devastation, the town was occupied by the Wehrmacht on September 5, 1939. Piotrków was made into a county seat (Kreis) of the newly created Łódź District (Regierungsbezirk Litzmannstadt) of the German territory of Reichsgau Wartheland. It was put under the command of Hans Drexler, an appointed Nazi Oberbürgermeister who also created the Ghetto. In total, some 16,500 to up to 28,000 Jews went through the Piotrków Ghetto which was liquidated beginning 14 October 1942 in four days of deportations to Treblinka and Majdanek extermination camps aboard overcrowded Holocaust trains.