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

The village of Korytków is located about six kilometers southeast of the town of Frampol. During World War II it belonged to the municipality (gmina) of Kocudza, Biłgoraj County, in the Lublin District of the General Government [Generalgouvernement]. In 1921, its  population stood at 914, with no Jews among them.^[1] At the outbreak of World War II, twenty Jews lived in the municipality,^[2] and in July 1942 there were 166 Jews living in the area.^[3] Sol Feder, who resided in Frampol at the time, recalled in postwar testimony that a few Jewish families lived in Korytków during the war.^[4] Among the Jewish residents, according to  Yad Vashem's Pages of Testimony, were Genya Liberman,^[5] Chana Lerman,^[6] and Rivka Welczer (née Brikman).^[7]

At the beginning of May 1942, the Population and Welfare Department in Lublin (Bevölkerungswesen und Fürsorge Abteilung), a unit of the Kraków-based civil administration of the General Government, headed by Richard Türk, instructed the county governors to prepare for the deportation of all the Jews in the district.^[8] Those living in small villages were moved to larger towns, in order to concentrate the communities from each area for mass deportations to the Bełżec death camp. According to a questionnaire of February 14, 1952, filled out by the Municipal Council in Kocudza for the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, all the Jewish communities within the boundaries of the Kocudza municipality were deported to Frampol during 1942 or 1943.^[9]

Sol Feder stated in his testimony that the Jews from Korytków and other villages in the vicinity of Frampol were ordered to move to that town at some point in 1942.^[10] He emphasized that he witnessed extreme overcrowding in the Jewish homes in Frampol, where, with the arrival of deportees, several families were forced to live together in the same quarters....