שילוח מ - Krasnystaw, גטו, פולין ל - Sobibor, מחנה השמדה, פולין ב- 15/05/1942

In 1939, on the eve of World War II, Krasnystaw, the capital of the Krasnystaw County of the Lublin District, some 55 kilometers southeast of Lublin, was home to 2100 Jews.^[1] The Germans occupied Krasnystaw on September 18, 1939. Around September 28, they ceded the town to the Soviets. Following a border demarcation that restored Krasnystaw to Germany, almost 1,000 local Jews joined the Soviet military evacuation. On October 7-8, 1939, the town was reoccupied by the Germans.^[2]

In January 1940, a Judenrat was set up in Krasnystaw, headed by Lipa Rajchman, with David Zylbercan as his deputy.^[3] Subsequently, a Jewish order service (also referred to as a Jewish police) was established upon German orders.^[4] On May 29, 1940, a Jewish Social Self-Help [JSS] committee was set up in the town, headed by Michel [Michal] Szolsohn. Some of its other members were: Szmil Silbermann, Szyja Zycer, Chaim Warsznyter, and Jakob Neumann.^[5] 

On August 9, 1940, the Jewish population of Krasnystaw was herded into a ghetto, which consisted only of Grobla Street. Because of the limited space in the ghetto, most of the Jews were left without a roof over their heads. There were tragic instances when the members of a family had to be separated. People huddled in attics and shacks. Poverty spread throughout the ghetto, and with it, the threat of epidemics.^[6]...