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June 1942, Jewish policemen and members of the Judenrat at a wedding in the Bochnia ghetto, Poland.
Two months later, on 24 August, the first Aktion in the Bochnia ghetto began. Most of the ghetto inmates were deported to the Belzec extermination camp. On 1 October 1943, Bochnia was declared to be “Judenrein”, empty of Jews.
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