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

Horodło, a small town in Hrubieszów county, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, situated on the western bank of the Bug River. In 1921, during the interwar period, the town had 2,495 inhabitants including 747 Jews (30 percent of the town’s 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, before withdrawing 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. The Germans immediately 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 tasked with providing Jews for forced labor. However, the Judenrat didn’t fully comply with the German demands....