שילוח מ - Siennica Rozana, Krasnystaw, Lublin, פולין ל - Izbica, Krasnystaw, Lublin, פולין ב- 01/04/1942

The village of Siennica Różana is the administrative seat of the Siennica Różana municipality in the Krasnystaw County, eastern Poland. According to the 1921 Polish census, the villages that would make up this municipality during World War II were home to 157 Jews.^[1] Following the outbreak of war in September 1939, the Siennica Różana municipality fell under Nazi occupation, until the arrival of 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 began to arrive in the Krasnystaw County. According to a report by the Jewish Social Self-help (JSS) organization from October 15, 1940, the Jewish population of the Siennica Różana municipality had risen to 220.^[2] From April 18, 1941, more Jews arrived from Izbica, Lublin, Krasnystaw, and Warsaw. The number of Jews in the municipality had increased to 435 by June 1941, and most probably continued to grow.^[3] The Jews were accommodated in all the fifteen villages of the municipality, and the members of the local Jewish Council were drawn from several of them.^[4] Hersz Hochman from the village of Zagroda was chairman of the Judenrat.

The first step toward the isolation and deportation of the local Jews was taken already in late December 1941 or early January 1942, when some of the Jews were driven out of their homes, and Poles were brought in to replace them.^[5] Around the same time, a special circular banned the Jews from entering local stores.^[6]...