Lancut was a town near Przmysl. The ghetto was created in 1939 and liquidated between the end of July and early August 1942. The ghetto inhabitants worked at making improvements on the waterway of the Sawa River. During the liquidation of the ghetto, the prisoners were sent to the transit camp at Jaroslaw where the old, sick and children were murdered and the rest sent to the Belzec death camp.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a postcard from Lancut to the Judenrat in Litzmanstadt postmarked July 17, 1941, asking about a relative.
Encyclopedia Judaica, CD-Rom Edition, Keter Publishing
Spector, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust (2001), P. 702
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