During WWII, the municipality (gmina) of Mołodziatycze, with the village of Mołodziatycze as its capital, was located in Hrubieszów County, within the Lublin District of occupied-Poland (the General Government).[1]
A census conducted by the Polish government in 1921 recorded 231 Jews living in twenty-four villages which belonged to the Mołodziatycze Municipality.[2] According to this census, seventy-three Jews lived in Mołodziatycze, the capital village of the municipality.
The Mołodziatycze Municipality was most likely occupied by the Wehrmacht on Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year), September 14, 1939, parallel to the occupation of Hrubiwszow County. After a brief interim period of Soviet control, the municipality villages were then re-occupied by Nazi Germany, as agreed to in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, signed on August 23, 1939, by Germany and the Soviet Union.[3] ...