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Transport from Pawlow,Chelm,Lublin,Poland to Wlodawa,Wlodawa,Lublin,Poland on 10/1942

Transport from Pawlow, Chelm, Lublin, Poland to Wlodawa, Wlodawa, Lublin, Poland on 10/1942

Transport

Departure Date 10/1942 Arrival Date 10/1942

Horse-drawn wagons

Pawłów is a townlet and the seat of a municipality (gmina in Polish), lying some 60 kilometers southwest of the town of Włodawa in eastern Poland. According to historian Tatiana Berenstein, this settlement was home to some 122 Jews on the eve of World War II.^[1] In the first weeks after the outbreak of the war, Pawłów fell under German control, and was assigned to the Chełm County of the Lublin District of the General Government (the part of German-occupied Poland that was not officially annexed to the Reich).

The Jews of Pawłów were subjected to persecution and employed in forced labor until the autumn of 1942. A Jewish council (Judenrat) was established in the town shortly after the onset of the occupation, and it was tasked with carrying out the orders of the German authorities that pertained to the Jewish population under its oversight. Apart from the Jews of Pawłów itself, the Judenrat also exercised authority over the Jews in the villages of Liszno, Wolka Kanska, Zagrody, Borowica, Kanie, Golab, Józefów, and Krasne. The records of the Judenrat list only sixty-five Jews residing in Pawłów on July 25, 1941, out of a total Jewish population of 232 in the gmina.

In September or October 1942, the Jews of Pawłów were deported to Włodawa. According to the testimony of local resident Fischel Pechter, the Jews of the town were ordered to move to Włodawa on September 15, 1942. He does not describe the deportation process in detail, since he himself ran off into the woods together with his wife and two children.^[2] Rozalia Rodzewicz (née Kohn) from Chełm relates that her father owned a business in the village of Kanie (in the Pawłów gmina), and that her entire family was in that village at the time of the deportation. She dates the deportation to October 1942, testifying that the Polish Blue Police in Pawłów issued an order requiring all the Jews of the gmina to report to Pawłów, from which they would be transported elsewhere.^[3]...