Opatów Ghetto
| Opatów Ghetto | |
|---|---|
Jewish men assembled for slave labour, Opatów, occupied Poland | |
Opatów location during the Holocaust in Poland | |
| Location | Opatów, German-occupied Poland |
| Incident type | Imprisonment, forced labor, starvation |
| Organizations | Schutzstaffel (SS) |
| Camp | Treblinka extermination camp |
| Victims | 10,000 Polish Jews |
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The Opatów Ghetto was a World War II ghetto set up by Nazi Germany for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of local Jews in the town of Opatów during the German occupation of Poland. The approximate number of Jews confined to the ghetto was about ten thousand, including a group of expelees from the Czech Republic and Austria. Beginning in January 1942 the SS conducted mass shooting actions at the Jewish cemetery in Opatów where the bodies of the ghetto victims were also buried by the hundreds.