Dubiecko


Dubiecko is a village in Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in southeastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Dubiecko. It lies approximately west of Przemyśl and southeast of the regional capital Rzeszów.
The village has a population of 1,150.

History

As a result of the first of Partitions of Poland in Austrian Galicia.
For more details, see the article Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.

Jewish History

During World War I, in 1915 the town was captured by Russia, during the Rosh Hashana festivities. Some Jews were killed during the rampage that followed. In 1918 local peasants attacked Jews and took Jewish belongings and property.
The town had about 1000 Jews, most of them Hassidic, and several religious Zionists.
On September 17, 1939, German soldiers entered Dubiecko, two days after the slaughter of the Jews of Dynow on the second day of Rosh Hashana. They caught 11 Jews and killed them, burning the synagogues and beating the men attempting to save holy scrolls, including the Rabbis.
A week later, on September 27 the remaining Jews were ordered to assemble at the town square. From there they were marched across the border, and the San river, while being beaten and brutalized, to Soviet territory. Some drowned during the crossing. Peasants on both sides of the river robbed the Jews of whatever little possessions they had. Some ended up in Przemyśl others in Lvov. Many perished on the way. The young Rebbe of the town perished with his wife in Przemyśl, after returning from Jerusalem to Poland just before the war. Most of the remaining Jews perished later after Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, almost two years later.