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

Podlesie Duże 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 eight Jews, out of a total population of 563.^[2] According to Stanisław Rozwar Zybała, a local witness who lived in Radecznica, and the regional historian Regina Smoter Grzeszkiewicz, one Jewish family lived in the village in 1939: Srul (surname unknown) with his wife and three children—two girls (the name of one was Chajka) and a boy, Bencje. ^[3] According to the same source, the family was deported twenty kilometers southeast to Szczebrzeszyn, in 1942.

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.^[4] This was one of the first steps in planning the aktion (deportation operation)....