Transport from Frampol, Bilgoraj, Lublin, Poland to Belzec, Extermination Camp, Poland on 02/11/1942

In 1939, 15,663 Jews lived in Biłgoraj County, in the Lublin District, constituting about 46 percent of the population. Frampol, a small town in the northern part of the county, some 18 kilometers from its capital, Biłgoraj, had 1,939 Jewish inhabitants at the outbreak of the war.

On September 12 or 13, 1939, most of the town was destroyed by German bombardment. The Jewish inhabitants fled town and sought shelter in neighboring towns and villages, among them Goraj, Turobin, and Szczebrzeszyn, reducing the town’s Jewish population to 377. Subsequent lists of refugees compiled by the Frampol Judenrat (the Jewish council) show that on April 17, 1941, there were 138 Jews from Frampol residing in various nearby villages, 99 in Tarnogrod and 148 in Szczebrzeszyn. In October 1939, an unknown number of Jews escaped to the USSR. ...