Transport from Komarow, Ghetto, Poland to Komarów, cemetery, Murder Site, Poland on 22/09/1942

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

The Jews of Komarów, and many other Jews who were concentrated in Komarów from surrounding places, like Zamość, were deported and murdered in three deportations in the course of 1942. Leading up to these transports, a Jewish ghetto was established in the spring, or summer, of 1941.^[2] The first deportation of some 1,000 Jewish women, children, and elderly, from Komarów via Zamość, to the Sobibor death camp, took place most likely on May 23-27, 1942.^[3] In October 1942, the Komarów ghetto was dissolved and the remaining Jews were deported to the Belzec death camp via Izbica.^[4]...