Pre-1939: Nowe Miasto, village, Płońsk powiat, Warsaw województwo, Poland; 1939–1945: Neustadt, Kreis Plönnen, Regierungsbezirk Zichenau, Provinz Ostpreussen, Deutsches Reich; post-1998: Nowe Miasto, województwo mazowieckie, Poland The village of Nowe Miasto is located about 16 kilometers (10 miles) northeast of Płońsk. By 1921, the number of Jews in Nowe Miasto stood at 39.6 percent (i.e., 780 out of a total population of 1,969). The Germans captured the village on September 5, 1939. On September 14, most likely members of Einsatzkommando 2/V (part of Einsatzgrupppe V) killed eight Jews; two of them were shot in their own houses, the remainder near the forest in the “Piaski.”1 On September 23 (Yom Kippur), the town’s Jews were gathered in the market square, where they were tormented for hours. One source reports that Wehrmacht soldiers murdered seven unidentified Jews on that day.2 The Germans tended to pick for torture those Jews who were orthodox in appearance, beating them and s...