in their work records were released and immediately transported to [Ma-Ha]
R-Sza-L’s⁵⁶³ synagogue (16th century), and from there to the slaughterhouse,
where the railway side track⁵⁶⁴ is. There they were loaded into boxcars, which
were then sealed and sent off “in an unknown direction”.
On Wednesday, 18 March, that is on the third day of the Aktion [2], the
procedures were handed over to the Jewish Order Service.
Saturday, 21 March, brought confirmation of the news that the deportation
from Lublin also included the Jews who had work records. Sheer panic
broke out among the Jewish population. People began to look for ways of
rescue to avoid compulsory deportation from Lublin. Some had themselves
taken away from Lublin in hearses, while others sought admission to the Old
People’s Home or hospital.
Monday morning, 23 March, the Orphanage (operated by the Community)
received an order to transport all the orphans out of town. The order was executed
on Tuesday, 24 March. 105 orphans died at the hands of the Gestapo
functionaries. The same day 70 inmates of wards of the Old People’s Home
were executed with 17 patients from the provisional Jewish hospital.
On Monday, 30 March, the Gestapo and the SD shot 15 members of the
Judenrat and their families. The Jews were escorted out of town and executed
there. Victims included the chairman of the Judenrat engineer Bekker and two
members of the presidium: Dr Siegfried (a Jew from Germany) and Salomon
Halberstam.⁵⁶⁵ The Germans then collected work records – those with the
letter “J” – from Community clerks (400 people), letting only 6 clerks and
8 members of the Judenrat keep theirs.
Hancewicze near Baranowicze
In early July 1941 the Germans ordered the entire Jewish population to assemble
[3] out of town for purported “deportation” to the General Government.
6,000 Jews assembled on the specified day. The Germans murdered them and
buried them there in a mass grave.
563 See Doc. 49.
564 A secondary track next to the main track.
565 A reference to Shloyme Halbersztat. See Doc. 49.
