Photos from Mielec during the Shoah 1939-1945
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