page_title: Tarłów
section_title: Fate of Tarłów's Jewish Population
hierarchical_section_title: Tarłów / Fate of Tarłów's Jewish Population
caption_attribution_description: English: Ruins of Tarlow Synagogue
context_page_description: Tarłów is a village in Opatów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Tarłów. It lies approximately 30 kilometres north-east of Opatów and 79 km east of the regional capital Kielce. It is approximately 13 kilometres north of the town of Ozarow. The village has a population of 790, and belongs to historic province of Lesser Poland.
  The history of Tarłów dates back to 1550, when a local nobleman, Andrzej Tarło, founded the town named after himself, which replaced the already existing village of Czekarzewice. Tarłów received its charter in 1550 from King Zygmunt August, in Piotrków Trybunalski. The town's inhabitants, thanks to the King's order, were exempt from paying taxes for 20 years. In 1614 Tarłów got its first, wooden church, founded by Mikołaj Oleśnicki. In 1636 a hospital was opened, and in 1647, the wooden church was replaced with a brick church of Holy Trinity, which still stands.
  During the Deluge, Swedish invaders destroyed and ransacked most of Lesser Poland's towns, including Tarłów. After the wars, the town never recovered.
context_section_description: After World War I, about 1,000 Jews lived in Tarłów, roughly half of the small town's population. They worked in crafts and small-time trade - some farmed small plots of land near their homes. Most of its Jewish population was traditional (Orthodox) with a smaller percentage identifying with Zionism.
  In September 1939, the Germans occupied Tarłów.  They established a Judenrat, and forced them to collect large sums of money in ransoms, and also gathered Jewish residents for forced labor.
  The  ghetto in  Tarłów was set up in December 1941. ln June 1942, seventy young Jews were sent from the ghetto to the Skarżysko-Kamienna labor camp. A few months later, the Germans brought Jews from nearby towns to the Tarłów ghetto, and the ghetto population swelled to approximately 7,000 people.
  On October 29, 1942, the majority of ghetto inhabitants were deported to Treblinka. During the deportation, more than 100 Jews were murdered in Tarłów, the rest were sent to Treblinka where they were all murdered immediately.  Afterwards, dozens who were found hiding were executed in a  mass grave at the Jewish cemetery in Tarłów.
  Today there is not a single Jew left in Tarłów or even within miles of the town. Not far from the centre, the town's former synagogue (built in 1786)  lies in ruins, overrun with bushes and trees.
caption: Ruins of Tarłów Synagogue. Foreground: Eli Rubenstein. His grandfather, Nechemia, immigrated from Tarłów to Toronto, Canada in 1913.
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