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History of Sanniki’s Jewish Community
Source: Virtual Shtetl
In the Middle Ages, Sanniki was one of many villages owned by the Mazovian Piast dynasty from the line of the Płock Dukes. Jews started to settle in Sanniki in the second half of the 19th century, attracted by the development of local industry (a sugar factory and distillery were established in 1849). By the end of the century the village had 44 permanent Jewish residents. An independent Jewish community never formed there; the Sanniki Jews were probably members of the Jewish community in Gombin. In September 1939, Sanniki was occupied by the Germans. A year later, the Germans established a ghetto which held on average 250 Jews from Sanniki and Słubice. In 1941, the ghetto inmates were forced by the Germans to vandalize the local church so the Germans could take propaganda pictures. The Sanniki ghetto was liquidated on 17 April 1942. Some of the men were sent to the labor camp in Konin; the remaining Jewish residents of the shtetl were sent to the Chelmno extermination camp. READ MORE on Virtual Shtetl
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