TREBLINKA: - Holocaust Handbooks

240 Carlo Mattogno, Jürgen Graf: Treblinka
“The delegation informed me that on April 17, ’42, 2 transports of
evacuees from Slovakia and the Protectorate arrived. The baggage of the
evacuees has remained in Lublin, and the delegation requests that the baggage,
which for the most part contains bed linens, be released.”
In order to create room for the new arrivals, Polish Jews residing in the
Lublin district were gradually deported farther east. These evacuations 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,
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: 698
“I ask you to evacuate Jews in the following locations:
Radomysl 500
Zaklikow 1,500
Annopol 500
Ulanow I 500
Modliborzyce 1,000
Janów-Lubelski 400
Krasnik 1,000”
Lenk added:
“Only old people, unfit for labor, women and children might be included
by these evacuation operations, and such men who are not employed
at German positions. Craftsmen, however, might still remain here
for the time being.”
On May 13, 1942, the district chief in Pu�awy sent a letter to the governor
of the district of Lublin, which stated under Point 5: 699
“In Opole the ghetto consists of Jews from Slovakia who were sent here
a short time ago. All Slovakian Jews who are fit to work have for the most
part already been procured for the above named projects. Therefore, in the
Opole ghetto there is merely a remnant of old and sick Jews who are not
employable.”
On May 19, the district chief of Lublin reported to the Sub-Department for
Population and Welfare: 700
“On the questionnaire of the 12th of this month I recommended, when
opportunity arises, that the following Jews, whose evacuation is required
first, be deported:
Lubartów 2,737
Ostrow-City 3,062
Piaski 6,166
698 Ibid., p. 54.
699 Faschismus – Getto – Massenmord, op. cit. (note 290), p. 438.
700 J. Kermisz, op. cit. (note 683), p. 53.