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The following sources have been used to create this timeline:

Browning, C. R. (2010). Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labour Camp. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.

Rubinowicz, D. (originally published in 1960, Warsaw). The diary of Dawid Rubinowicz. Translated by Derek Bowman in 1982. Edmonds, Wash., U.S.A.: Creative Options Pub.

Kalib Szachter, G., Wachsberger, K., & Kalib S. (1991). The Last Selection: a Child's Journey Through the Holocaust. Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press.

Szuchta, R. (2015). 1000 lat historii. Żydów polskich. Podróż przez wieki. (1000-Year History of Polish Jews.) Warszawa: POLIN Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich.

Wołczyk, A. Postoła E., & Mróz J. (1983). Cmentarze Bodzentyna: 1801–1980. Kielce: Biuro Dokumentacji Zabytków.

Wołczyk, A. (1987). Pozostał po nich tylko kirkut ... (6th edition), Bodzentyn.

Wołczyk A. (2007). Bodzentyn jako miasto i osada. Bodzentyn.

https://www.avivshoa.co.il/pdf/Ghetto-Liste-Stand-10.12.2015.pdf (accessed 4 July 2021).

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In the 10th century the first Jewish travelers mention Poland (Szuchta, 2015, p. 30).

POLIN's Core Exhibition is a journey through 1000 years of the history of Polish Jews – from the Middle Ages until today. > Find out more about the exhibition

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By and by the Jewish presence grew. In 1507 Jews were living in more than a hundred places in Poland (Szuchta, 2015, p. 38).

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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was one of the largest countries in Europe, and the most diverse, with many religions, languages and cultures. Encouraged by the nobility to settle on their estates the Jewish population grew to 750,000 in 1765 (Szuchta, 2015, pp. 44).

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In 1797 the first Jewish family came to Bodzentyn. Still in 1810 these four persons were the only Jews in town (Wołczyk, 1987, p. 1, reference to AGB-2494).

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In 1820, 47 Jews were registered as tenants in Bodzentyn. At that time there were 1,053 Catholic residents (Wołczyk, 1987, p. 10).

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In 1862 the Jews received civil rights, and in 1876 the local authorities recognised the Jewish community in Bodzentyn.

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In 1867 the Jews were allowed to form a communal organization and received a plot of land for the cemetery. (Wołczyk, 1987, p. 10).

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On June 20, 1917, a great fire erupted that destroyed many buildings; some houses, two churches, the synagogue, a school, and the pharmacy (Wołczyk et al, 1983, pp. 59).

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A typhus epidemic swept the area in the fall of 1917. The Austrian troops retreated in June that same year. (Wołczyk, 1987, p. 24).

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1917  |  50 per cent of the population Jewish

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1917  |  50 per cent of the population Jewish

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In 1917 the Jews in Bodzentyn were nearly 50 per cent of the total population. There were 2,027 Catholic residents and 1,918 Jews. (Wołczyk, 2007, p. 78).

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1939  | 30 percent of the population Jewish 

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1939  | 30 percent of the population Jewish 

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In the early 20th century many Jews emigrated. In 1939 there were approximately one thousand Jews in Bodzentyn, about 30 per cent of the population.

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01.03.1941 (avivshoah)

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September 21-22, 1942. (Alternative date mentioned by an eyewitness referred to in literature: 03.10.1942.) Read more in the section The destruction of the Jewish community.

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Liberation of the region by the Soviet army

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Liberation of the region by the Soviet army

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January and February 1945