Transport from Hutkow, Zamosc, Lublin, Poland to Izbica, Krasnystaw, Lublin, Poland on 10/1942

Hutków (in Yiddish: Chitkov), a village some 4 kilometers northeast of the town of Krasnobród, community (gmina) Suchowola, and 18 kilometers south of Zamość, in southeastern Poland, lay within Zamość County in the territory of the General Government created as part of the German occupation. According to the Polish census of 1921, 76 Jews lived in Hutków out of a total population of 849.^[1] Elyakim Kuperstein (A.G. Kupferstein), a Jewish survivor from Hutków, testified that at the outbreak of  World War II only a few Jewish families lived in the village, namely "Peretz Rendler, my father Noah Kuperstein, Yakov Rendler, Eliezer Shtemer — the son-in-law of R' [Rabbi] Moshe-Yakov Rendler — and their families."^[2] The everyday life of the Jews of Hutków was interwoven with that of the Jewish community of Krasnobród.^[3]

In February 1940, by order of the mayor of Krasnobród, Katowski (given name unknown), the Jews in Hutków were registered, and their professions listed, together with the Jews from Krasnobród. By August 1942, the only Jews left in Hutków were the Kuperstein family, Eliezer Shtimmer and his family, and Raizl Rendler.^[4]

On October 26, 1942, the last remaining Jews of Krasnobród were deported to the transit camp at Izbica (Lubelska), about 45 kilometers to the north, in Lublin County.^[5] Among them were the remainder of Hutków's Jewish community. Moshe Fishel and other Jews from Krasnobród went into hiding in the area around Hutków, before the transport to Izbica left their town.^[6]...