 The ghetto inmates also included Jews deported from other cities in the vicinity including Lublin and Ciechanów and the rest of German occupied Europe for the total of 3,500 Jews in its initial stages including 2,000 Jews from Slovakia.In May 1942 additional transport from Slovakia with 2,421 Jews arrived.The Lubartów Ghetto was one of hundreds of such ghettos established in the course of the Holocaust in occupied Poland.