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Mikvah

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Mikvah, or a Jewish ritual bathhouse, was erected in Baranów in 1930. After the Second World War, the building housed a storage room for animal fodder. For a short period of time, it was also used as a private apartment. In the years 1955–76, it housed a labour ward, and after 1976 – a kindergarten. It is one of few remnants of the once large Jewish community of Baranów. After the Nazi Germans took over the village in September of 1939, the Jews were not immediately subjected to special repressions. It was only in the autumn of 1941 that the Nazi occupants issued numerous restrictions for the Jews, concerning the freedom of movement around the village, among others. In 1940 about 300 Jews were resettled from Puławy, Łodź and Warsaw to Baranów. In the winter of 1942, 500 out of about 1,900 Jews residing here were deported to various work camps. Those who remained were transported to the extermination camp in Sobibór on May 8, 1942. During the war occupation, the Nazi Germans destroyed the synagogue and the cemetery.

 

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