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Chapter VIII: Indirect Transports of Jews to the Eastern Territories 235
“1,500 to admin. dist. of Cholm, with the stations of destination being
W�odawa and Parczew .
1,000 to admin. distr. Radzyn with station of destination Mi�dzyrzec.
500 to the admin. dist. Zamo�� with destination station Susiec.
1,500 to the admin. dist. of Hruebieszow.”
The direct train to Parczew arrived there on March 13, 1942; 800 Jews
were accommodated in W�odawa, 200 in Sosnowiec (or Sosnowica, a hamlet
35 km west of W�odawa). The evacuation of Jews from Mielec ended on
March 16. The rest of the Jews were “accommodated in the Krakow district.”
687
On February 9, 1942, the “resettlement of 1,500 Jews with the destination
station W�odawa (900 Jews) and Parczew (600 Jews)” was announced. The
directives of the government office charged with the resettlement, which were
forwarded to the local authorities as supplements by Oberlandesverwaltungsrat
(Senior provincial administrative counselor) Weirauch, prescribe the following:
688
“The office of the District of Lublin, Department of Internal Administration
and Department of Population and Welfare, remains responsible
to me for seeing to it that the Jews, who are to settle in, get assigned sufficient
lodging according to what is possible. The resettling Jews are to be
allowed to take along their bedding. With respect to other baggage and
household effects, 25 kg per person is allowed to be taken along. The Jews
are to be medically monitored after their arrival in their new areas of settlement
for 3 weeks. Every case, in which there is a suspicion of illness or
typhus, is to be reported to the district physician without delay.”
On March 22, 1942, there was a resettlement of Jews from Bilgoraj to Tarnogrod,
a village 20 km south of that city. The report that deals with this it
reads: 689
“On March 22, 1942, an evacuation from Bilgoraj to Tarnogrod of 57
Jewish families with a total of 221 persons took place. Each family received
a vehicle in order to take along the necessary pieces of furniture
and beds. The Polish police and the special services unit took care of control
and supervision. The operation went as planned without mishaps. The
evacuees were accommodated in Tarnogrod on the same day.”
On March 17, 1942, Fritz Reuter, an employee of the Department of Population
and Welfare of the Office of the General Gouvernement of the district
of Lublin, wrote a note, in which he referred to a talk conducted on the previ-
685 Ibid., p. 14.
686 Ibid., p. 27.
687 Ibid., p. 28.
688 Ibid., p. 15.
689 Ibid., p. 46.