At the time of the German invasion in September, 1939, Sokolow Malopolski's Jewish population was about 1600. The Germans immediately requisitioned Jews for forced labor. In April 1942, the Jewish population, then numbering 3000 because of refugees and others resettled by the Germans in Sokolow Malopolski, was forced into a ghetto. In July, German police shot 30 residents of the ghetto, resettled 200 in a labor camp in Glogow, and moved others to the Rzeszow ghetto where they were sent to the Belzec killing camp in July. Several dozens of Jews who hid from the deportations were murdered later in the year and in the summer of 1943, three Jews and the four Poles hiding them were shot and buried on the grounds of Sokolow Malapolski's elementary school. The number of the few Jewish survivors is unknown.
