שילוח מ - Krzczonow, Lublin, Lublin, פולין ל - Belzyce, Lublin, Lublin, פולין ב- 11/10/1942

Krzczonów was a village and municipality (Polish: gmina) seat in eastern Poland. According to the 1921 Polish census, the village was home to ninety-six Jews, out of a total population of 1,391.^[1] After the outbreak of World War II, Krzczonów was occupied by Nazi Germany and assigned to the Lublin-Land County (Kreis) of the Lublin District (Distrikt) of the General Government (Nazi-occupied central Poland, which was not officially annexed to the Reich).

The Jews of Krzczonów were deported from their municipality during the Operation Reinhard deportations from the Lublin District. Jankiel Grynberg (Janusz Krzywicki), a resident of Osmolice (in the Piotrowice municipality), testifies that, on October 9, 1942, all the Jews of his municipality were formally ordered to relocate to the Bełżyce collection point by October 11. According to this witness, the deportations of Jews from Krzczonów, Bychawa, Jastków, and Niedrzwica were conducted in the same manner and on the same dates.^[2]

Two residents of Krzczonów, Hella Gurfinkel (née Huberman) and Anna Steinwurz, recount how the Jews of the village received a written order instructing all of them to leave their homes and belongings, except for the most basic ones, and move to Bełżyce. The families were loaded onto horse-drawn wagons, and made the roughly 40-kilometer journey to Bełżyce.^[3] According to the USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, a total of fifty-nine Jews were deported.^[4] Most of the Jews assembled in Bełżyce were deported further two days later, on October 13. Those deemed unfit for labor, including the elderly and the children, were sent to their deaths at Treblinka. Some who had passed the selection arrived at the Poniatowa forced labor camp, or the Piaski transit camp. In all likelihood, most of the deportees from Krzczonów shared the fate of the other Jews brought to Bełżyce.^[5]...