Izbica Ghetto

Izbica Ghetto
Ghetto and Transit camp
Monument to Holocaust victims in Izbica Izbica location south-east of Lublin near Belzec during World War II
Izbica Ghetto Location of former Izbica Ghetto in modern Poland
Coordinates	50°53′N 23°10′E / 50.883°N 23.167°E / 50.883; 23.167
Known for	The Holocaust in Poland
Operated by	Schutzstaffel
Operational	1940–1943

The Izbica ghetto was a Jewish ghetto created by Nazi Germany in Izbica in occupied Poland during World War II, serving as a transfer point for deportation of Jews from Poland, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to Bełżec and Sobibór extermination camps.^[1] The ghetto was created in 1941, although the first transports of Jews from the German Reich started arriving there as early as 1940. Izbica was the largest transit ghetto in the Lublin reservation, with a death rate almost equal to that of the Warsaw ghetto. SS-Hauptsturmführer Kurt Engels, known for his exceptional cruelty, served as its only commandant.^[1]