Transport from Tyszowce, Tomaszow Lubelski, Lublin, Poland to Izbica, Ghetto, Poland on 15/10/1942

The town of Tyszowce, located 125 kilometers southeast of Lublin, was invaded by the German Wehrmacht on September 17, 1939. Eight days later, under the terms of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, the town was transferred to Soviet forces, before reverting to German control for the duration of the war on September 28. Estimates of the town’s Jewish population on the eve of World War II range from 1,654 to 3,800.^[1] About 1,000 Jews left Tyszowce together with the Red Army's withdrawal to the east.^[2]

During the war, the town’s Jewish population fluctuated considerably, owing to the movement of refugees in and out,^[3] and deportations to forced labor in camps in Zamość County,^[4] such as Belzec, Budzyn or Białobrzegi.^[5]

The Germans’ persecution of the Jews of Tyszowce took various forms: they forced the Jews to wear an armband with a Star of David inscribed on it, marked their shops,^[6] confiscated their property and valuables, reduced their living space, abducted them for forced labor, and vandalized the Jewish religious and cultural centers.^[7]...