Rakowi


About three kilometers northwest of Piotrkow Trybunalski, lies Rakowi and there in a forest the Nazis killed 560 jews from the ghetto of Piotrkow Trybunalski in December 1942. In 1943, 39 children from the same ghetto also killed in the forest.

Current status: Monument (2013).

Location: 51°25'23.52"N 19°43'26.71"E

Get there: Car.

My comment:

Like many other similar monuments in similar places, they are erected on private initiative, usually by relatives to the victims.

Follow up in books: Gilberg, Martin: Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War (1987).