Transport from Czarnystok, Zamosc, Lublin, Poland to Szczebrzeszyn, Zamosc, Lublin, Poland on 29/09/1942

Czarnystok, a village in the municipality of Radecznica, Biłgoraj County, in the Lublin District, had a population of 981 in 1921, among them ten Jews. According to regional historian Regina Smoter Grzeszkiewicz and a local resident, Stanisław Rozwar Zybała, at least two Jewish families lived in Czarnystok before the outbreak of World War II. The name of one family was Kestenbaum. Some local Poles remember a woman by the name of Rywka, who had a clothes shop. Three Jewish children appear in a photograph taken in a local school in June 1939 – Mosiek, Fajga and Szandla (surnames unknown). According to Regina Smoter Grzeszkiewicz and Stanisław Rozwar Zybała, the Jewish families from Czarnystok were deported to the town of Szczebrzeszyn, about 11 kilometers to the east, in September 1942. We have no testimonies about the circumstances of the transport from Czarnystok to Szczebrzeszyn, nor is the exact number of people deported known. ...