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

Podlesie Małe 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 known as "Podlesie folwark" (Podlesie farm), and out of a population of ninety-one, there were no Jewish inhabitants.^[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—the Frugs: Abram Frug's widow (name unknown) and five children (Hejno, Jenta, Josef, Moszek, and Srul).^[3] They rented a fish pond. During the war, Hejno served in the Polish Army, and was later a member of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) in the village of Turobin. According to Grzeszkiewicz and Zybała, the rest of the family was deported to Szczebrzeszyn, eighteen kilometers southeast, in 1942.

We have no testimonies about the circumstances of the transport from Podlesie Małe to Szczebrzeszyn. Zygmunt Klukowski, the medical director of a hospital in Szczebrzeszyn, noted in his diary on September 30, 1942: "Yesterday they brought to Szczebrzeszyn all the Jews from the gmina of Radecznica, mainly from Gorajec and from Radecznica itself, all together some 400 – as the mayor informed me."^[4]...