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300 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR<br />

was given a vehicle to enable them to take along the necessary furniture<br />

and bedding. Special command and Polish police were used for<br />

the arrangements and the surveillance. The operation was carried<br />

out as planned without incidents. The evacuees were housed in Tarnogròd<br />

the same day.”<br />

The arrival <strong>of</strong> western Jews in the Lublin district began in mid-<br />

March. The first transports taken there left the Protectorate on 11<br />

March, the Altreich on 13 March, Slovakia on 27 March and Austria on<br />

9 April 1942. The transports comprised mostly persons unfit who were<br />

housed together with the able-bodied in the villages <strong>of</strong> the district.<br />

On 12 April 1942 the Chairman <strong>of</strong> the Jewish Council in Lublin<br />

posted a letter to the Jewish Social Self-Assistance in Krakow, in which<br />

the “numbers <strong>of</strong> those resettled in the individual towns” were named in<br />

regard to Mielec:<br />

Bez 460 persons<br />

Cieszanów 465 persons<br />

Dubienka 787 persons<br />

Sosnowica 210 persons<br />

Midzyrzec 740 persons<br />

Wodawa 770 persons<br />

The letter continues: 908<br />

“In Izbica two transports arrived from the Protectorate with<br />

1,000 persons.<br />

In Izbica 1,871 arrived from the Rhineland.<br />

In Piaski, Lu., 1,008 persons arrived from the Protectorate.<br />

Moreover, in the last few days further transports arrived whose<br />

number varies between 2,500 and 3,000 persons. Yesterday, he [909]<br />

received an in<strong>of</strong>ficial – at any rate so far unconfirmed – piece <strong>of</strong><br />

news that a passenger train <strong>of</strong> 19 cars, which allegedly was traveling<br />

to Izbica and contained evacuees from Vienna, was supposed to<br />

go past Lublin. Officially nothing could be determined yet.<br />

With regard to Lublin itself, an insignificant number <strong>of</strong> Jews has<br />

remained in the city up to now, who are supposed to be resettled<br />

from the city into its environs according to in<strong>of</strong>ficial information.”<br />

On 16 April 1942 the Landkommissar at Lubartòw addressed the following<br />

letter to the county chief for Lublin-Land: 910<br />

908<br />

909<br />

910<br />

Jüdisches Historisches Institut Warschau (ed.), op. cit. (note 116), p. 275f.<br />

Dr. Marek Alten, adviser on Jewish matters to the governor <strong>of</strong> the Lublin district.<br />

Józef Kermisz (ed.), op. cit. (note 723), p. 48.

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