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

Latyczyn is a village in the municipality (gmina) of Radecznica. During the Second World War, it was part of Biłgoraj County, in the Lublin District.^[1]

In 1921, it was home to five Jews, out of a total population of 737.^[2] The municipal records from 1912 show that the Weistuch family lived in the village. According to Stanisław Rozwar Zybała, a local witness who lived in Radecznica, and the regional historian Regina Smoter Grzeszkiewicz, the Jewish population in the village increased to four families by 1939. Their surnames are unknown, but local witnesses recalled that they were families of a shoemaker by the name of Szlomo, of a carpenter by the name of Szmul, and those of Hersz and Urynek, who were merchants.^[3] According to Grzeszkiewicz and Zybała, the German occupiers deported all four families some 11 kilometers southeast to the town of Szczebrzeszyn in September, 1942.^[4]

Typically, in places where no Judenrat (Jewish Council) was established, the Germans demanded that the local Polish administration—the village heads (sołtys)—provide them with a list of names of all the village’s Jewish inhabitants.^[5] This was one of the first steps in planning the aktion (deportation operation)....