Biecz is a city south of Tarnow. Germans entered the town on September 7, 1939. The ghetto was created in April, 1942, and liquidated in August of the same year. There were about 1,000 Jews in the ghetto. During the liquidation, the sick and the old were murdered, and the remainder, some 700 people, were sent to Belzec.
Below are the thumbnails of the front and back of a postcard dated August 28, 1940, from Biecz to Krakau. The writer, Israel Goldberg, is registering his move from Krakau to the ghetto in "Biecz bei Jaslo". The card bears an arrival handstamp dated August 30, 1940. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Postcard" in the left frame to return.
Encyclopedia Judaica, CD-Rom Edition, Keter Publishing
Spector, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust (2001), P. 143
Copyright © 2003 Edward Victor