# Milejów <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Milejów (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Łęczna County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51.2236 22.9258</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>pre-1918</td><td>Milejów</td><td>Congress Poland (Russian Empire)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Milejów</td><td>Second Polish Republic (Lublin Voivodeship)</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1944</td><td>Milejów</td><td>German-occupied Poland (General Government, Lublin District)</td></tr> <tr><td>1944–present</td><td>Milejów</td><td>Poland (Lublin Voivodeship)</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Milejów is a village in Łęczna County known for its sugar factory and a food-processing (marmalade/jam) plant that employed Jewish laborers during the German occupation. In a grim episode after the October 1943 Sobibór uprising, a detachment of Jewish laborers from Milejów was taken to the nearby Trawniki camp to burn corpses and were then themselves shot. The wider Lublin District Jewish population was destroyed in 1942–1943 through deportations to Bełżec and Sobibór. A distinct sourced Yiddish/Hebrew name and a precise local peak Jewish population were not located. <small>Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milej%C3%B3w,_Lublin_Voivodeship, https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/trawniki</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Chawa Szayndla Lindenbaum (b.1814)]] | Born ~1814 | | [[Laja Lindenbaum (b.1816)]] | Born ~1816 | | [[Rojza Gitla Lindenbaum (b.1825)]] | Born 1825, Died 08/06/1826 | | [[Ejzyk Lindenbaum (b.1828)]] | Born ~1828 |