Łopiennik Dolny is a village in the Lublin Voivodeship in southeastern Poland. According to the Polish census of 1921, the village was home to sixty-seven Jews. Additionally, twelve Jews lived in the Łopiennik Dolny folwark (agricultural estate). Łopiennik Dolny belonged to the Łopiennik municipality, which had a total of 188 Jewish residents in 1921.[1] After the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, following the partition of Poland between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Łopiennik Dolny was administratively assigned to the Krasnystaw County (Kreis) of the Lublin District (Distrikt) of the General Government (Generalgouvernement; the part of Nazi-occupied Poland that had not been officially annexed to the German Reich).
According to the available sources, the Jews of Łopiennik Dolny were deported in May 1942, possibly to Sobibor.
An inquiry into the fate of the Jews in Łopiennik Dolny was conducted by the Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Lublinie (District Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Lublin) in the years 1969-1970. An arrest questionnaire dated 1969 states: "On May 15, 1942, in the morning hours, Germans arrived in the village of Łopiennik Dolny and arrested Polish citizens of Jewish nationality, merchants, namely: Majer Giltman and his wife, aged about thirty-five; Josek Rosencweig with his son, wife, and two daughters; Szyja Tau with his three sons, wife, and daughter, age unknown; Icek Tau with his two sons, wife, and daughter (age unknown); and Aron Tau with his two sons, wife, and two daughters. The Germans then transported them to the village of Gorzków, where they were probably shot along with other Jews."[2]...