Prior to Nazi German and Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, there were 3,800 Jewish residents in Tarnobrzeg.
The city was overrun by the Germans on 17 September 1939.
In order to inflict terror, 5 prominent Jews were shot at the town square.
Following the signing of the German-Soviet Frontier Treaty Jews were being expelled to the Soviet zone of occupation across the San river beginning 2 October 1939, with many others, deported to Mielec and Sandomierz.
The atrocities committed by the German occupiers against Jewish and Polish citizens during the Holocaust forced the Jews to choose between mortally dangerous escape or perish by remaining.
 Very few Jews are known to have survived in the city, where they would have needed to be hidden for years by righteous gentiles.
Those migrating east to Russia had to choose between permanent Soviet citizenship, service in the Red Army in its battles against the Wehrmacht, and loss of freedom to subsequently leave Russia, or alternatively to become displaced persons (DPs).
The DPs were temporarily relocated by the Russian government to work camps in Siberia, there to wait out the war.
Many of them died due to the extremely rugged conditions, for which they were unprepared, and the poor supplies available in wartime trans-Ural Russian Asia.
 Those who survived were permitted to depart Russian lands following World War II.
Prior to Nazi German and Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, there were 3,800 Jewish residents in Tarnobrzeg. The city was overrun by the Germans on 17 September 1939. In order to inflict terror, 5 prominent Jews were shot at the town square. Following the signing of the German-Soviet Frontier Treaty Jews were being expelled to the Soviet zone of occupation across the San river beginning 2 October 1939, with many others, deported to Mielec and Sandomierz. The atrocities committed by the German occupiers against Jewish and Polish citizens during the Holocaust forced the Jews to choose between mortally dangerous escape or perish by remaining.  Very few Jews are known to have survived in the city, where they would have needed to be hidden for years by righteous gentiles. Those migrating east to Russia had to choose between permanent Soviet citizenship, service in the Red Army in its battles against the Wehrmacht, and loss of freedom to subsequently leave Russia, or alternatively to become displaced persons (DPs). The DPs were temporarily relocated by the Russian government to work camps in Siberia, there to wait out the war. Many of them died due to the extremely rugged conditions, for which they were unprepared, and the poor supplies available in wartime trans-Ural Russian Asia.  Those who survived were permitted to depart Russian lands following World War II.
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