At the outbreak of
World War II the population of Frysztak was three quarters Jewish with 1,322 people. Major forms of commerce in Frysztak at this time included crafts and farming. The German occupation of the town began on September 8, 1939, when German soldiers robbed Jewish homes and shops and
forcibly conscripted Jews. One week after the occupation of Frysztak began, on
Rosh Hashanah, German soldiers set fire to several holy objects and murdered Jewish worshipers in the synagogue. A Jewish internal police unit watched over the Frysztak camp, which operated from July 1941 until November of the same year when poor living conditions lead to the typhus outbreak which caused it to close. Germans sent the surviving Jews back to the Warsaw area. The ghetto was liquidated on August 18 the same year, with the remaining Jews taken to
Jasło ghetto. These were sent a few days later to the
Belzec extermination camp. ==References==