Transport from Horodlo, Hrubieszow, Lublin, Poland to Uchanie, Ghetto, Poland on 05/1942

Horodło is a small town in Hrubieszów County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, on the west bank of the Bug River. In 1921, during the interwar period, the town had 2,495 inhabitants, including 747 Jews (thirty percent of the total population).^[1] The Jewish community of Horodło also included Jews from the nearby villages of Strzyżów, Rowiny, Kowale, Kopyłów, Liski, and Matcze.

The Germans occupied Horodło on September 26, 1939, but withdrew from it a few days later, in the face of the advancing Soviet forces. Upon the conclusion of the German–Soviet border negotiations two weeks later, the Red Army retreated eastward, beyond the Bug River. The next day, German troops reoccupied the town. Immediately thereafter, the occupiers demanded a list of all the Jews living in Horodło.^[2]

In May 1940,^[3] as elsewhere in the county, the German authorities appointed a Judenrat in Horodło, headed by Fatchi [Petachia] Blat, with Mendel Lerner, Shmuel Berger, and Shmuel Goldberg as members. Among other things, the Judenrat was required to supply Jews for forced labor. However, it did not fully comply with the German demands....