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Chapter VIII: Indirect Transports of Jews to the Eastern Territories 241
Be��yce 3,639
Bychawa 2,733
Chodel 1,398
19,735.”
In a letter of May 22, the district chief of Hrubieszow stated: 701
“The number and place of residence of those Jews whose evacuation
appears to be necessary first, is as follows:
1) in Hrubieszow 5,690 Jews
2) " Uchanie 2,025 Jews
3) " Grabowiec 2,026 Jews
4) " Dubienka 2,907 Jews
5) " Be�z 1,540 Jews.”
There is no doubt at all that these transfers were serving the purpose of
creating room for the western Jews deported into the Lublin district. Later, the
latter would then also be evacuated again in stages. A report of October 5,
1942, of the district chief in Lublin to the governor of the Lublin district sets
out the following information regarding this: 702
“Reference: Dispositions of August 18, 1942, and September 28, 1942
With regard to the above dispositions I am reporting that since the first
of January 1942, 8,009 Jews from the Reich have been resettled into my
district. 3,692 of these have already been resettled again. Expenditures or
outlays have not been incurred due to these evacuations, the Piaski community
merely put 400 vehicles at their disposal without cost for the transportation
of the sick, children, and baggage.”
The 8,009 Jews mentioned were accommodated in the following locales
according to this report:
– 1,200 Jews from Germany in Be��yce
– 5,466 Jews from Germany in Piaski
– 54 Jews from Germany in Luszawa
– 652 Jews from Germany in Kamionka
– 125 Jews from Slovakia in Firlej
– 512 Jews from Slovakia in Ostrow Lub.
The German policy of resettlement of the Jews was also echoed in the
German press. On October 17, 1942, an article appeared in the Lemberger Zeitung
with the headline “The first Jew-free city in the GG” (GG = General
Gouvernement), in which the following appeared: 703
“Lublin is the first city in the General Gouvernement, which has become
Jew-free, and the process now begins of liberating the territories of
the individual administrative districts from Jews, who were bringing the
701 Ibid., p. 55.
702 Faschismus – Getto – Massenmord, op. cit. (note 290), p. 336.
703 Lemberger Zeitung, no. 246, 17 October 1942, p. 5.