Transport from Zawada, Zamosc, Lublin, Poland to Mokre, Zamosc, Lublin, Poland on 01/1942

Zawada is a village located 10 kilometers west of the city of Zamość. During World War II, it was part of the Mokre gmina (municipality), in Zamość County, within the Lublin District of the occupied part of Poland, not formally annexed to the Reich, called the Generalgouvernement (General Government). At the end of 1940, it was home to eleven Jewish residents.^[1]  

On September 22, 1945, the Head of the Mokre Municipality, Gustaw Ceratkiewicz, testified that during 1942, a group of Jews from Zawada—their names unknown—were deported to Mokre, a distance of about 8 kilometers. They were subsequently shot to death near the municipality building, at Mokre 131.^[2] According to Ceratkiewicz, the Polish Blue Police—including a Polish constable named Kujawski—conducted the deportation and the murders. ^[3]

At a later stage, two other groups of Jews, from unknown destinations, were brought to Mokre and shot by the German gendarmes. In all, according to Ceratkiewicz, there were forty-six victims. The Presidium of the Mokre Municipal National Council (Prezydium Gminnej Rady Narodowej) responded to a questionnaire from the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, from March 27, 1952, confirming that, in total, some forty Jews were murdered in Mokre during 1942.^[4]...