Transport from Mokre, Camp, Poland to Rotunda Zamojska, Detention Site on 11/1943

The forced labor camp between the villages of Mokre and Żdanów was located some six kilometers southwest of the center of Zamość, about 100 meters from the road between Zamość and Żdanów.^[1] The camp belonged to the Bauleitung der Luftwaffe, the German Air Force Construction Office, and it was part of the complex of Luftwaffe labor camps in the Zamość area. It was established in mid-October 1940, on the site of an existing military airbase, in preparation for concentrating Army Group Center of the Wehrmacht in the Lublin District area, ahead of the planned German invasion of the USSR.^[2] The SS supervised the inmates, while a Czech construction company named Rudolf Vissek oversaw the construction work.^[3] 

Jewish prisoners began to be brought to the camp as forced laborers in October 1940. Some of these men came from Warsaw, while others were from Zamość. From March 1942, they were joined by Jewish deportees from Czechoslovakia and Germany.^[4] The prisoners were initially housed in other camps—mostly the Luftwaffe camp in the city of Zamość—and brought to work in Mokre on a daily basis. From mid-1941, some 150 Jewish laborers from Zamość were moved into the new barracks in the Mokre camp.^[5]

An anonymous Jewish man from Warsaw, who was among the first group of forced laborers, wrote:...