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302 J. GRAF, T. KUES, C. MATTOGNO, SOBIBÓR
tions were initiated by the SS- and Police Chief of Lublin in collaboration
with the “Sub-Department of Population and Welfare” of the Governor
of the district of Lublin, specifically on the proposal of the local
authorities. For example, a certain Lenk, a subordinate of the District
Chief of Janów-Lubelsk, wrote to the SS- and Police Chief of Lublin: 913
“I ask you to evacuate Jews from the following locations:
Radomysl 500
Zaklikow 1,500
Annopol 500
Ulanow I 500
Modliborzyce 1,000
Janów-Lubelski 400
Krasnik 1,000
Only old people, those unfit for labor, women, and children
should be included in these evacuation operations, plus such men
who are not employed at German agencies. Craftsmen, however,
should still remain here for the time being.”
On 13 May the county chief at Puawy sent a letter to the governor
of the Lublin district, which reads under item 1: 914
“In the period between 6 and 12 May, both inclusive, 16,822
Jews from Pulawy county have been expelled across the Bug river
on the instructions of the chief of SS and police.”
These Jews are alleged to have been deported to Sobibór and killed
there. 915
The railway line 916 Chem-Sobibór-Wodawa, called 584h by the
German Ostbahn, was a spur of the line 584h, which went from Chem
to Kowel in Ukraine. 917 The line 584h left the territory of the General
Government near Wodawa (the border in that area followed the Bug
river) and continued into Ukraine towards Brest-Litowsk. Hence, the
expression “expelled across the Bug river” must be interpreted literally;
it designated an expulsion from the General Government into Ukraine.
913
914
915
916
917
Ibid., p. 54.
Jüdisches Historisches Institut Warschau (ed.), op. cit. (note 116), p. 438.
Ibid., note 1.
The lines and place names used here are slightly different from those used in Kursbuch
Polen 1942 (Generalgouvernement), Josef Otto Slezak Verlag, Vienna 1984, a re-edition
of Amtlicher Taschenfahrplan für das Generalgouvernement published by Generaldirektion
der Ostbahn in Krakau and valid from 2 November 1943 onwards.
R. Hilberg, op. cit. (note 629), pp. 252-254, railway maps Gouvernement General.