After the German occupation that began September 1939, Jews were robbed and subject to forced labor without pay, some working in the community, others sent to labor camps. In 1940, the 410 Jews remaining in the town were given three hours notice that they were to move to a ghetto ghetto where they lived in poverty and with terrible hygenic conditions. On 14 August 1942, all of Szadek's Jewish community were deported to the Chełmno extermination camp where they were immediately gassed.[3][4][5] There were fewer than twenty survivors from the Szadek Jewish committee.