Rotki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Drohiczyn, within Siemiatycze County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.
World War II
During German occupation of Poland, the
Nazis set up a
stone quarry in Rotki for the purpose of
slave labor by the Polish Jews from the Łomża Ghetto. About three hundred people worked in it, before they were shipped to
Auschwitz for extermination in November 1942.
[Qiryat Tiv'on, "Lomza from its beginnings," translated from Yiddish by Stan Goodman, original published by Pinkas haKehilot branch of Yad Vashem, Israel]
