Transport from Krupe, Krasnystaw, Lublin, Poland to Rejowiec, Chelm, Lublin, Poland on 01/09/1942

Krupe is a village in the Siennica Różana municipality in the Krasnystaw County, eastern Poland. According to the 1921 Polish census, there were only twenty-seven Jewish residents in the village.^[1] Following the outbreak of World War II, the Siennica Różana municipality, including Krupe, fell under Nazi occupation, which lasted until the liberation by the Soviet Army in 1944. Under the Nazis, the municipality was part of the Krasnystaw County (Kreis in German) of the General Government (the part of occupied Poland that was not officially annexed to the German Reich).

As the Nazi occupation set in, refugees and deportees from other parts of Poland (Łódż, Lublin, Krasnystaw, and Warsaw) began to arrive in the Krasnystaw County. Between 1940 and 1941, the Jewish population of the fifteen villages of the Siennica Różana municipality rose to 435 and continued to grow.^[2] The local Jewish Council drew its members from several of the villages, with Mendel Bitman serving as the representative from Krupe.^[3]

Miriam Moskowitz (née Inowroclawska), originally from Łódź, was deported to the Krasnystaw County in 1940 together with her parents and three brothers. Traveling via Izbica, Krasnystaw, and Gorzków, they finally reached the village of Krupe in the Siennica Różana municipality. She would testify about their experiences in Krupe in her interview:...