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of Beec could not yet annihilate more than 1,600 persons in 24
hours.”
The decisions noted in Reuter’s above memo are fully corroborated
by a report written by SS-Hauptsturmführer Türk on 7 April 1942. The
report covers the month of March and contains a paragraph entitled
“Jewish Resettlement Operation of the SS and Police Chief,” in which
Türk says: 906
“The possibilities of accommodation, limited to places along the
Deblin-Rejowiec-Beec railway line, were and are currently being
discussed with the representative of the SS and Police Chief. Alternative
possibilities were determined.
On the basis of my proposal, there is a fundamental understanding
that, as Jews from the west are being settled here, local Jews are
to be evacuated in like numbers, if possible. The current status of the
settlement process is that approximately 6,000 were settled here
from the Reich, approximately 7,500 have been evacuated from the
district, and 18,000 from the city of Lublin.
Individually, 3,400 have been evacuated from Piaski, district of
Lublin, and 2,000 Reich Jews have come in so far; 2,000 from Izbica,
Krasnystaw district, and 4,000 Reich Jews arriving in it; from
Opole and Wawolbnica, Pulawy district, 1,950 have been evacuated.
[…]
Jewish resettlement from Mielic, Cracow county:
On 13 March 42 Cholm county received about 1,000 Jews; 200
were housed at Sosnowice and 800 at Wodawa.
On 14 March 42 Miedsyrzecz in Radzyn county received 750
Jews. Hrubieszów county received 1,343 Jews, with 843 being
housed at Dubienka and 500 at Belz. Most of them were women and
children, with able-bodied men a minority. On 16 March 42 Zamosc
county received some 500 Jews who were all housed at Cieszanow.
Jewish resettlement Bilgoraj:
On 22 March 42 57 Jewish families, a total of 221 persons, were
transferred from Bilgoraj to Tarnograd.”
Another report describes the transfer of Jews from Bilgoraj to Tarnogròd,
a village 20 km to the south, in the following words: 907
“An evacuation of 57 Jewish families with a total of 221 persons
from Bilgoraj to Tarnogròd took place on 22 March 42. Each family
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Jüdisches Historisches Institut Warschau (ed.), op. cit. (note 116), p. 271.
Józef Kermisz (ed.), op. cit. (note 723), p. 46.