Transport from Krychów, Camp, Poland to Wlodawa, Ghetto, Poland on 16/10/1942

The Krychów camp^[1] in the Kreishauptmannschaft Cholm County, 33 km southeast of the Sobibor extermination camp, was part of the network of forced labor camps managed and operated by the Wasserwirtschaftsverwaltung (Water Works Management) of the Lublin District.^[2] It became operational in the spring of 1940. The forced laborers, arriving in several deportation waves in 1940 and 1941, were used to drain the swamps in the area and rectify the flow of tributaries of the Bug River. In addition to Jews, the Krychów camp received various other groups of forced laborers, such as Sinti, Roma, and Poles. In early 1942, more and more of them were released.^[3]  With the onset of Operation Reinhard on March 17, 1942,^[4] all the remaining non-Jewish workers were supposed to be freed, and the camp be reserved for Jews.^[5] However, according to the recollections of the witness Józef Klauda, it was only on April 4 that most of the Poles detained at the Krychów camp were released.^[6]

The first known transport from Krychów in 1942 took place in mid-April that year. Its destination was the Sobibor extermination camp, and it was carried out as part of the so-called test runs, or experimental gassings.^[7]

Sobibor remained the destination of most of the subsequent transports from Krychów, until the end of 1942.^[8]...