# Siedliszcze <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Siedliszcze (Polish)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Lublin Voivodeship, Chełm County, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51.1944 23.1639</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>to 1795</td><td>Siedliszcze</td><td>Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth — Chełm Land, Ruthenian Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1795–1815</td><td>Siedliszcze</td><td>Austrian partition (1795); Duchy of Warsaw from 1809</td></tr> <tr><td>1815–1918</td><td>Siedliszcze</td><td>Congress Poland / Russian Empire — Lublin Governorate (Chełm County)</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Siedliszcze</td><td>Second Polish Republic — Lublin Voivodeship</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Siedliszcze</td><td>German occupation (General Government)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Siedliszcze</td><td>Poland — Lublin Voivodeship, Chełm County</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Siedliszcze, which obtained town rights in 1548 and a market-square privilege in 1760, had a substantial Jewish community; in 1921 some 666 Jews lived there, about 80% of the population. On 1 June 1940 the Germans established a ghetto holding roughly 2,000 Jews gathered from several localities. On 18 May 1942 about 630 Jews were deported to the Sobibór extermination camp, and the ghetto was liquidated in October 1942 with the remaining inmates also sent to Sobibór. <small>Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siedliszcze,_Gmina_Siedliszcze, https://bloodandfrogs.com/compendium/poland/lublin/siedliszcze, https://jri-poland.org/town/siedliszcze/</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Srul Alszpektor (b.1823)]] | Born ~1823 | | [[Abram Kiejsman (b.1830)]] | Born ~1830 | | [[Cyrla Ruchla Edelsztajn (b.1861)]] | Born 03/10/1861 | | [[Zelman Frost (b.1866)]] | Born ~1866 | | [[Frimeta Lewenberg (b.1868)]] | Born 1868 | | [[Icek Szol Balter (b.1886)]] | Born ~1886 | | [[Szyia Mordka Brandt (b.1857)]] | Died 1896 | | [[Szyia Mordko Felindler (b.1906)]] | Born 1906 | | [[Prywa Lafer (b.1907)]] | Born 1907 | | [[Liba Rozenblat (b.1907)]] | Born 1907 | | [[Mendel Cymerman]] | Born |