Nisko, Poland

Nisko Lwow dist., Poland. Jews first settled in the late 19th cent., constituting less than 10% of the total (273 in 1880; 409 in 1921). The Russians burned down most of the town at the outset of WWI. Deadly Epidemics and rampant looting by the local population subsequently caused further distress. After WWII broke out, many of Nisko’s Jews escaped or were expelled to Soviet-controlled territory. Within the framework of the shortlived Nazi plan to turn the Lublin dist., into a Jewish reservation, some 95,000 refugees arrived in the area from October 1939 to March 1940, at which time all were dispersed, presumably including the Jews of Nisko.