גל גירוש מ - Krasnystaw, Krasnystaw, Lublin, פולין ל - Krasnystaw, בית קברות יהודי, אתר רצח, פולין ב- 01/01/1940

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] 

In the first years of the German occupation, the number of Jews in Krasnystaw changed frequently, because of the flow of refugees arriving in the town, and the stream of local Jews being deported to other settlements, or to nearby labor camps.^[6]...