Hrubieszów – During the week between 26 May and 2 June the Germans
rushed all the Jews from the neighbouring localities into town. On 2 June there
were more than 10,000 Jews in Hrubieszów. The first “campaign” took place
on 2 June – a few dozen Jews [4]⁶⁴⁷ were murdered, while 2,000 others were
deported in sealed boxcars in an unknown direction. The subsequent “campaigns”
lasted several days beginning on 7 June. 200 Jews died, while 5,000
were gradually deported in an unknown direction. 1,500 people remained in
town.⁶⁴⁸
Grabowiec⁶⁴⁹ – On 8 June the Germans rushed all the Jews from Grabowiec and
other small towns (a total of 5,500 people) to the railway station in Miączyn.
4,500 Jews were loaded into boxcars and sent to the new death camp in Sobibór
(a railway station 36 kilometres from Chełm).⁶⁵⁰
Dubienka – A number of operations took place in this small town in late May
and early June. 200 people working on German work details remain, of the
entire Jewish population (4,000 people). Many were murdered, while a few
thousand were deported (Sobibór?).⁶⁵¹
Eastern Lesser Poland
Kołomyja – On 3 May the Germans captured [. . .] people in the ghetto. They did
the same over the following days. At the same time they fired and set Jewish
homes ablaze. The Gestapo and the Ukrainians burnt 109 buildings, murdered
600 Jews and deported 4,000 Jews, probably to Bełżec.⁶⁵²
Brzeżany – On 30 and 31 May the Germans murdered 2,000 Jewish women.
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647 Mistake in the original pagination.
648 This note and the following one about the events in Grabowiec were probably based on reports from 14 June 1942 of two Dror messengers, Fruma Plotnicka and Chava Folman. See ARG I 769 (Ring. I/811). To be printed in: The Ringelblum Archive. Accounts from the General Government; Cf. Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, pp. 634–636.
649 Grabowiec (Hrubieszów County).
650 Cf. Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, pp. 632–634.
651 On 2 June Jews from Dubienka were resettled to Hrubieszów, whence they were deported to Sobibór and killed. See ibid., pp. 630–632.
652 During 3–6 April 1942 approximately 5,000 Jews from Kołomyja were deported to the death camp in Bełżec. See Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, pp. 790–793; R. Kuwałek, Obóz zagłady w Bełżcu, pp. 102–103.
