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

Chłopków, a village in the municipal district (gmina) of Radecznica, Biłgoraj County (Zamość County until March 1940), in the Lublin District, is located about 12 kilometers west of Szczebrzeszyn. According to the population census, in 1921 21 Jews lived in the village. At the outbreak of the war, at least four Jewish families lived there, according to regional historian Regina Smoter Grzeszkiewicz and a local resident, Stanisław Rozwar Zybała. There were the brothers Gildener (Berek, his wife and three children: Chana, Jankiel and Jenta; Lejba, his wife and four children: Jankiel, Kileman, Łajka and Perla; and Szmuel, his wife Masia and two children: Estera and Szulim); and the Zimmerman family: the father Yitzhak, his wife Socha, and children: Gitla, Lejzor, and Łajka. They were merchants and landowners; Lejba Gildener was a farmer. According to Smoter Grzeszkiewicz and Rozwar Zybała, several Jews from Chłopków were murdered in the area during the war, and some were taken to a forced labor camp. The Jewish men, women, and children remaining in the village were deported by the German authorities to the nearby town of Szczebrzeszyn on September 29, 1942. ...