This is a map drawn by Itzchak Chesler in Buenos Aires Argentina in 1957. It was included in the Zabludow Yizkor Book. The map was translated to English from the original Yiddish by Avner and Mina Bar-On in Israel. In the lower right corner is the area of the leather factories which the German's turned into a Ghetto for the Jewish residents of Zabludow, after they had burned much of the town to the ground in June of 1941. About 1,400 Jews remained in this Ghetto for more than a year. They were used to do slave labor on the roads, and were subject to many tortures by the Germans. They were deported from the Ghetto to an abandoned camp of the Polish Army in Bialystok on November 1st, 1942. They remained there for a little more than a week under terrible conditions, and on November 10th were sent by train to Treblinka Death Camp. Most died a cruel death by gas that very same day. The remnant of the "big Jewish cemetery" to the upper right of the Ghetto area is all that remains in Zabludow today of the four hundred years of Jewish Civilization in the town.

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