Approximately two months after occupying the city, Germans, along with Polish policemen, encircle the synagogue in Siedlce, remove the Torah scrolls from the building, and light up both the synagogue and the Torah scrolls. The fire spreads to the neighboring Jewish study house and Jewish community offices. After the fire, the Germans order the Polish police to prepare a report holding the Jews responsible for igniting the fire. After the synagogue was burned down many Jews are deported to labor camps in the Lublin area. On August 1, 1941, two ghettos are established in Siedlce that together contain 12,000 Jews. Most of the Jews in Siedlce are shot by the Nazis or their Ukrainian collaborators, or deported to Treblinka. About 2,000 Jews from Siedlce survive the war.
