Transport from Komarow, Ghetto, Poland to Izbica, Ghetto, Poland on 15/10/1942

Komarów is a town located 100 kilometers southeast of Lublin and 27 kilometers southeast of Zamość. In 1921, its 2,895 residents included 1,752 Jews.^[1] German troops occupied Komarów on September 13, 1939. They then withdrew and the Soviet army moved in. However, after the borders between Germany and the USSR were finalized, Komarów again came under Nazi authority, until 1944. Apparently, many of the local Jews joined the Soviet troops' withdrawal behind the Bug River on October 8, 1939.^[2]

Although many local Jews left Komarów escaped with the Soviets, Jews from other places subsequently arrived in the town, causing an increase in the population density and creating a housing shortage. Until 1940, about 200 Jews were deported to Komarów from the areas of Włocławek, Koło, Sierpc, and Częstochowa. Homeless Jews from Krasnobród, Tyszowce, Łaszczów, and Tomaszów Lubelski, found refuge in Komarów as well. About 200 Jews were deported to Komarów from Lublin in March, 1941, and another 400 from the Zamość ghetto.^[3] In the spring or summer of 1941, a Jewish ghetto was established in Komarów.^[4] On May 1, 1941, the SS transferred 250 Jews, originally assigned to the Zamość ghetto, to Komarów. On May 2, 1942, 729 deportees from the first Theresienstadt transport also arrived in the town.^[5]...