Photos on this page are divided into four sections:
September 1939 – February 1942
These are photos of Mielec during the German occupation (1939 – 1945) prior to the forced march to Cyranka on March 9, 1942.
The Mielec Synagogue after being burned down on Erev Rosh Hashanah 1939 — photo credit Fotopolska.eu The Mielec Synagogue as printed on a German postcard ca 1943 — photo courtesy Bundesarchiv, B 162 Bild-00927 / Fotograf(in): Hippert, Kurt Robert Ferdinand Jews sweeping the street outside the Mielec Synagogue during occupation — photo courtesy Stanisław Wanatowicz An elderly couple standing in front of the destroyed synagogue in 1941 — photo courtesy Stanisław Wanatowicz Jews with armbands with the Star of David in the Rynek (Central Square), October 1940 — photo courtesy Stanisław Wanatowicz Jews with armbands with the Star of David in the Rynek (Central Square) — photo courtesy Stanisław Wanatowicz Jews with armbands near a shop Jews on the street in front of a shop selling cigars and cigarettes, circa 1941 — photo credit: Fotopolska.eu Jew pushing his bed down the street Jews walking down a street, circa 1940 — photo credit: Fotopolska.eu German officer cutting off a Jew’s beard — photo credit Moshe Borger via Yad Vashem Jew arguing with a German officer — photo credit Moshe Borger via Yad Vashem Nowy Rynek (New Central Square), circa 1941 — photo courtesy Stanisław Wanatowicz ul. Żydowska (Jew Street), circa 1941 — photo credit: Fotopolska.eu Jews forced to do field work. Probably prisoners of the Mielec labor camp — photo courtesy Stanisław Wanatowicz Boys on work detail during the occupation Jewish women in a labor camp — photo courtesy Stanisław Wanatowicz Postal money order sent to Kalman Kornreich Mielec Train Station, circa 1939-1944 — photo credit: Fotopolska.eu sports square, circa 1942 — photo credit: Fotopolska.eu Jewish man with armband in Rynek — photo courtesy Muzeum Historii Fotografii “Jadernowka” Door marked with Magen David on the Rynek during occupation — photo courtesy Muzeum Historii Fotografii “Jadernowka” Jews in Mielec – Sep 1939 — photo courtesy Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-013-0075-28 Jews in Mielec – Sep 1939 — photo courtesy Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-013-0075-32
The Forced March of March 9, 1942
These photos were taken by a German soldier who took part in the expulsion of the Jews from Mielec on March 9, 1942. All are now part of the Bundesarchiv collection (ref: B 162 Bild).
Additional images reprinted by the Muzeum Historii Fotografii “Jadernowka” in Mielec.
Efraim Garfunkel looking at the camera
April 1942 – May 1945
tattoo on a Jewish hand from the Mielec Labor Camp in Cyranka — photo courtesy Stanisław Wanatowicz
After 1945
Memorial to Yedidia Geminder, born 1891 in Mielec, killed in October 1942 in KL Mielec