Transport from Wola Różaniecka, Bilgoraj, Lublin, Poland to Tarnogrod, Ghetto, Poland on 09/1942

The village of Wola Różaniecka is located some 4 kilometers from the town of Tarnogród in southeastern Poland. During World War II, it was the seat of the Wola Różaniecka municipality (gmina), in the southern part of Biłgoraj County, within the Lublin District of the General Government (Generalgouvernement). Other villages in this municipal unit included Luchów Górny, Luchów Dolny, Majdan Sieniawski, and Różaniec.^[1]

According to the 1921 population census, 116 Jews lived in the municipality’s villages: 72 in Różaniec, 6 in Luchów Górny, 5 in Luchów Dolny, 6 in Luchów, 17 in Jamińszczyzna, and 10 in Bolesławin.^[2] The historian Alina Skibińska, estimates that eighty-three Jews lived in the municipality in 1939, seventy-two of them in the village of Różaniec.^[3]

German forces entered the area on September 14, 1939, followed ten days later by the Red Army.^[4] On October 5, 1939, the Germans reoccupied the area. From July 1941, the Jews in Biłgoraj County were forbidden to leave their towns and villages, or ghettos, under penalty of death.^[5]...