Transport from Skryhiczyn, Hrubieszow, Lublin, Poland to Hrubieszow, Ghetto, Poland on 22/11/1941

Situated within the Białopole municipality (gmina), Skryhiczyn is a village with an adjacent farm and agricultural enterprise (folwark). It is located in eastern Poland, 25 kilometers north of Hrubieszów, the county (Polish: powiat) capital.

In 1921, the  village’s Jewish residents numbered 215- twenty-seven in the village and 188 in the folwark- out of a total population of 851.^[1] Agricultural occupations are what characterized the Jewish population in this village. In addition, there were a number of well-established Jewish land and forest owners including: the Rottenberg, the Halperin, the Horowicz, the Kaminer, and the Szydłowski families.^[2]

After the German and Soviet invasion of Poland in September, 1939, Skryhiczyn was included in the German-controlled territories, as part of the Hrubieszów County (German: Kreis) of the Lublin District (Distrikt), within the General Government. According to an anonymous account from the Ringelblum Archive, when the Germans occupied the village, a pogrom was carried out against the local Jews....