Transport from Czermno, Poland to Zamosc, Ghetto, Poland on 05/1942

The village of Czermno is located approximately 120 kilometers southeast of Lublin, in eastern Poland. During World War II, it was one of twenty villages which were part of the gmina (municipality) of Tyszowce in Zamość County, Lublin District of occupied Poland (General Government).^[1] A census conducted by the Polish government in 1921 listed 27 Jews living in Czermno.^[2]

The village was occupied by the Germans in the middle of September 1939. About a week later, in line with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (concluded on August 23), Czermno was handed over to the Soviets, but a week later they withdrew and the village reverted to German control for the duration of the war.^[3] A census conducted at the end of 1940 found ten Jews living in Czermno at that time.^[4]   

According to an anonymous testimony found in the Ringelblum Archive (the ”Oneg Shabbat” underground archive compiled in the Warsaw ghetto)], Czermno’s  Jews were deported on May 25, 1942, as part of an Aktion in which "all the Jews were deported from the town of Tyszowce and [from the] villages surrounding it which belong to the municipality of Tyszowce [Perespa, Łaszczów, Czermno, Podbor, Wojciechówka]." They were said to have been taken to "a camp in the city of Zamość, where the Judenrat [Jewish Council] was placed in charge of them. In all, there were 1,800 deported Jews from the Tyszowce municipality."^[5]...