Transport from Kocudza, Bilgoraj, Lublin, Poland to Frampol, Bilgoraj, Lublin, Poland on 09/1942

Kocudza, the seat of a municipal administrative district (gmina), is a village in the County of Biłgoraj, Lublin District, some 18 kilometers northwest of the town of Biłgoraj. At the outbreak of World War II, the Jewish population in the municipality stood at twenty, but a year and a half later, on February 22, 1941, the Jewish Council in Kocudza (consisting of Elkuna Rozenberg and M. Fuks) listed 201 Jewish men, women and children in Kocudza and neighboring villages. According to their letter to the American Joint Distribution Committee, most of them were refugees from Frampol, a town about 5 kilometers to the east, which had been severely bombed by the German air force. A Jewish Self-Help Committee was formed – its members were Majer Knoblich, Elkuna Rozenberg and Moszek Datum – to aid the refugees. In July 1942, there were 166 Jews living in the area. Among those who moved from Frampol to Kocudza were the Huf family. Local witnesses testified after the war that in February 1942 four unknown Jews and ten Poles were brought to Kocudza, shot to death and buried in a roadside mass grave. ...