Modliborzyce, Poland

MODLIBORZYCE Lublin district, Poland. Jews are first mentioned in the mid-17th century and numbered 312 in 1827 and 957 (total 1,913) in 1921. Between the World Wars, most lived in straitened economic circumstances. The Orthodox controlled the community council but in the 1936 elections the Zionists won a majority. Under the German occupation (from September 1939), the Jewish population doubled with the arrival of 1,031 deportees from Vienna in March 1941. In October 1942, all were expelled to the Krasnik ghetto and from there to the Belzec death camp in November.