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A Jewish settlement was founded in Tluszcz in the early 20th Century, and the Jewish population grew to 1102 in
1921.
The community was served by
R. Yaakov and
Yosef Birkman from
1912 until his murder by the Nazis in
1942.
The Zionist and Agudat Israel were active between the two world wars, with
Yavne and Beth Jacob schools in operation.
The Nazis took the city on
14 September 1939, setting up a
Judenrat in
October and instituting a regime of forced labour. Many fled east in the
winter of 1939/40 leaving about 740 Jews , including refuges in the town.
Crowded into a ghetto from
September 1940 the Jewish population
suffered from starvation and a typhoid epidemic, throughout that winter.
On
27 May 1942 600 Jews were led towards
Radzymin after 70 were shot in the town. About half of the deportees
were murdered along the way and the rest were sent to the
Warsaw Ghetto.
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