CHEŁM COUNTY
CHEŁM
31 October–2 December 1940, Chełm, the town commissioner and the
county governor. Correspondence with the Judenrat in Chełm:
(1) Letter of 31 October 1940 to Marek Frenkiel, chairman of the Judenrat,
regarding borders of the ghetto, with a list of the streets which the
Jews had to leave by 10 November 1940.
(2) Letter of 7 November 1940 to the Judenrat regarding vaccinations,
construction of barracks, and closure of the ghetto.
(3) Letter of 14 November 1940 to Marek Frenkiel, chairman of the
Judenrat, granting him permission to go to Warsaw to buy vaccines
and again obliging him to make the Jews leave the enumerated streets
outside the ghetto borders by 10 December 1940.
(4) Letter of 27 November 1940 to the Judenrat ordering removal of Jews
from Lubelska Street.
(5) Letter of the Judenrat of 2 December 1940 containing information
about the number of the resettled and the volume of occupied and
vacated flats.
(1)
General Government Chełm, 31 October 1940
for the occupied Polish territories
Lublin District
Commissioner of the town of Chełm
(Chełm County Governor) ²⁰⁵
205 Gerhard Hager (1896–1961), Chełm’s town commissioner between November 1939 and May 1940. In July 1941 became the county governor of Chełm, then Tarnopol, and in March 1942 of Rawa Ruska, a position which he held until the end of the war. See M. Roth, Herrenmenschen, p. 478.
