Transport from Klemensow, Camp, Poland to Rotunda Zamojska, Detention Site on 01/1944

The forced labor camp in the village of Klemensów lay about 3 kilometers northeast of the town of Szczebrzeszyn, in the Biłgoraj County of the Lublin District. It belonged to the Bauleitung der Luftwaffe, the German Air Force Construction Office, and it was part of the Luftwaffe complex of labor camps in the Zamość area.^[1]

The camp was operational from October 1940. Jews from Szczebrzeszyn, Zamość, and the nearby towns were forced to work there, building the airfield facilities. While the SS was in charge of the camp, it was the German Air Force that set the labor tasks. ^[2]

The camps belonging to the Luftwaffe, and the one in Klemensów in particular, functioned the longest of all the Jewish forced labor camps in the area. In the late summer of 1943 (around August or September), well after the deportation of the Jewish communities of Szczebrzeszyn and Zamość to the death camps, and after the liquidation of most local labor camps (whose inmates were either murdered or sent to Majdanek), the camp in Klemensów received a few hundred Jewish prisoners, both men and women, from the Poniatowa camp.^[3] Initially, they stayed at the Luftwaffe camp near the villages of Mokre and Żdanów, but eventually they were moved to Klemensów....