Dubiecko

Dubiecko
—  Village  —
Parish church
Dubiecko
Coordinates: 49°49′32″N 22°23′24″E / 49.82556°N 22.39°E / 49.82556; 22.39
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Subcarpathian
County	Przemyśl County
Gmina	Dubiecko
Highest elevation	370 m (1,214 ft)
Lowest elevation	280 m (919 ft)
Population	1,150
Website	www.dubiecko.itl.pl

Dubiecko [duˈbjɛt​͡skɔ] (pronounced in Yiddish Dubetzk) is a village in Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in southeastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Dubiecko. It lies approximately 28 kilometres (17 mi) west of Przemyśl and 36 km (22 mi) southeast of the regional capital Rzeszów.^[1]

The village has a population of 1,150.

Jewish History

During WWI, in 1915 the town was captured by Russia, during the Rosh Hashana (Jewish new year) festivities. Some Jews were killed during the rampage that followed. In 1918 local peasants attacked Jews and took Jewish belongings and property.

The town had about 1000 Jews, most of them Hassidic (ultra orthodox), and several religious Zionists.

On September 17, 1939, (On the Jewish 'Gedalya' fast day) German soldiers entered Dubiecko, two days after the slaughter of the Jews of Dynow on the second day of Rosh Hashana (September 15, 1939). They caught 11 Jews and killed them, burning the synagogues and beating the men attempting to save holy scrolls, including the Rabbis^[2]

A week later (eve of the Succoth festivities week), on September 27 the remaining Jews were ordered to assemble at the town square. From there they were marched across the border, and the San river, while being beaten and brutalized, to Soviet territory. Some drowned during the crossing. Peasants on both sides of the river robbed the Jews of whatever little possessions they had. Some ended up in Przemysl others in Lvov. Many perished on the way. The young Rebbe of the town perished with his wife in Przemysl, after returning from Jerusalem to Poland just before the war^[3]. Most of these Jews perished later after Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, almost two years later.

See also

• Ignacy Krasicki (born in Dubiecko)
• Destruction of the Jewish community in the Holocaust
• Jews of Dubiecko before the war
• full list of info on Jews of Dubiceko

References

1. ^ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01. http://www.stat.gov.pl/broker/access/prefile/listPreFiles.jspa. 
2. ^ The destruction of Dubiecko on JewishGen
3. ^ ibid

Coordinates: 49°49′32″N 22°23′24″E / 49.82556°N 22.39°E / 49.82556; 22.39