Lapy's City Center, 1944
Photo,
above: In the foreground is the town's
train station. On the left is a
department store that was founded in
1924. |
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Lapy's Train Station, 1943 |
Photo,
above: The family of Chaim Nietupski
during the Occupation. L to R: Chaim's
wife, sister and children. There were
all killed by the Germans. Photo dated
1942.
Photo,
below: The German gendarme Kairis, who
served with the German military police.
He killed many
Jews--about one hundred--in this town
between 1942 and 1943. Most were killed
during the liquidation of the ghetto in
Łapy on 2 November 1942. The Jews who
had managed to hide to that point were
caught and killed on the spot in the
woods outside of the town. |
Lapy's Gendarmerie, 1944
Photo, above: The German
military police building. Here
served ten German and six
Ukrainian policemen. In the
square next to this buildings,
many were murdered.
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Lapy's "Bahnshutze", 1943 |
Photo, left: The German police station
in Łapy that was responsible for
protecting and securing the trains at
the railroad station that carried Jews
to the Treblinka death camps.
The area surrounding the tracks were
thoroughly searched and many Jews who
jumped from the train were killed.
Most
of the Jews who jumped at the Łapy -
Łapy Osse area; here, the train usually
slowed down as it climbed close to half
a kilometer uphill. It was the only
chance that someone on the train had a
chance to save themselves.
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Lapy's City Center During Occupation,
1943
Photo,
above: German gendarmes. From left is
Pruss Fritz, Adolf Windrich and Hans
Anders. Pruss Fritz was responsible for
the deaths of nearly one hundred and
fifty Jews during the German occupation
in Łapy.
After the
liquidation of the ghetto in Łapy, the
surviving Jews were killed in the forest
near the village Plonka Kościelna, which
is three kilometers from Łapy. |
Father Henryk Baginski
Photo,
above: Father Henryk Baginski, who
during the German occupation in Łapy
was the pastor of the parish. He
rescued many Jewish children from
certain death.
Together with Maria Kuzin, he
discharged fake birth certificates
for Jewish children. Then they were
placed with Catholic families. Many
of them survived the war; after the
war, Maria Kuzin was awarded the
medal of Yad Vashem, Righteous Among
the Nations."
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