
During World War II, the Rybczewice municipality (gmina) was located in the Krasnystaw County, in the Lublin District of the General Government (the part of occupied Poland that had not been annexed to the Reich). The village of Rybczewice, the seat of the municipality, lies some 24 kilometers northwest of the county capital, the town of Krasnystaw.
According to the 1921 census, the Rybczewice municipality was home to 200 Jews, who lived in eleven of its settlements: Rybczewice (a village, the seat of the municipality); the villages of Częstoborowice, Stryjna, Bazar, Pilaszkowice, and Władysławów; and the Choiny, Gardzienice, Pilaszkowice, and Stryjna farmsteads. The village of Częstoborowice had the largest Jewish population, fifty-four people.[1]
In mid-September 1939, the area of the Rybczewice municipality was occupied by the Wehrmacht, but it was handed over to the Soviets some two weeks later. In early October 1939, the Germans regained control over the municipality.[2]...