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Transport from Tarnogrod, Ghetto, Poland to Belzec, Extermination Camp, Poland on 09/08/1942

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results.dates.deportureDate 09/08/1942 results.dates.arrivalDate 09/08/1942
Tarnogrod,Ghetto,Poland
The market square in Tarnogrod, Poland
Horse-drawn wagons
Marched by foot
Marched by foot
Horse-drawn wagons
Zwierzyniec train station
Cattle Cars
Belzec,Extermination Camp,Poland

Tarnogród is a town in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Province, in southeast Poland, about 106 kilometers due south of the city of Lublin.[1] In August 1939, its 5,016 inhabitants included 2,515 Jews, who constituted 50 percent of the population.[2]

The Germans occupied Tarnogród on September 15, 1939,[3] before withdrawing some ten days later[4] in the face of the advancing Soviet forces. On October 6, upon the conclusion of the German-Soviet border negotiations, the Red Army withdrew. The next day, Saturday morning, October 7, German troops retook the town.[5]

The Germans appointed a local collaborationist administration, with Poles and Ukrainians recruited into the police. At the end of 1939 or in early 1940, the German authorities ordered the establishment of a Judenrat (Jewish Council) in Tarnogród, which was headed by Hersh Blutman, the prewar Jewish community leader.[6] The Judenrat was tasked with providing Jews to be sent for forced labor.[7] In April 1941, a German Gendarmerie unit was stationed in Tarnogród, under the command of Michael (Karl) Gerhard.[8]...

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    resources.detailsAndVisualzation.details.numInTransport : 1
    resources.detailsAndVisualzation.details.personBegin : 800
    resources.detailsAndVisualzation.details.personEnd : 800
    resources.detailsAndVisualzation.details.beginEvent : 09/08/1942
    resources.detailsAndVisualzation.details.endEvent : 09/08/1942