them out in meat lorries in which victims of the German massacre were transported
to the cemetery.
On the third day of the Aktion the Jewish Order Service replaced the
Ukrainian Auxiliary Police.
For transportation considerations the Germans could not deport more
than 1,600 people per day. Loaded with Jewish victims, the sealed boxcars
waited for entire days at the station, to which nobody had access.
On Tuesday, 24 March, all orphans (more than 100 children) from the
communal orphanage were loaded onto lorries, transported out of town, and
were killed and buried in a common grave.
This was also how the Old People’s Home (70 wards) and the provisional
hospital at Lubartowska Street 9 (17 patients) were “liquidated”. On Thursday,
26 March, all of the Jewish patients (600 people) at the epidemic hospital and
the Jewish hospital were killed.
On Monday, 30 March, 15 members of the Judenrat were deported with
their families. The number of the Judenrat clerks was reduced from 400 to 6.
The Germans announced that only those Jews who could show a J-card (issued
by the Polizei-praesidium⁸⁴⁸ to people working at German details) had a right
to stay in Lublin. The number of J-card holders does not exceed 2,500.
According to estimates, the “resettlement” campaign has embraced
23,000⁸⁴⁹ Jews. The number of the murdered exceeds 2,000.
There have been no signs of life from the deported.⁸⁵⁰
ARG I 27 (Ring. I/469, I/937).
Description: (a) Ring. I/469 – original or duplicate (2 copies, typewritten, amendments
(H.W.*) in the 1st copy, ink), Polish, 205x295 mm, minor damage and
missing fragments, major damage and missing fragments (2nd copy), 8 sheets,
8 pages; (b) Ring. I/937 – original (number of copies: 2), typewritten, Polish,
195x287 mm, major damages and missing fragments, 8 sheets, 8 pages.
In document (a) pages 1–2 (1st copy) have original pagination (ink): “1” and “2”.
They were paginated and buried together with p. 1 of doc. 58 (1st copy), and with
848 (Ger.) police board.
849 In version (b) the figure is 25,000. In the 1st copy Hersh Wasser corrected it and wrote
32,000; this is also the figure provided in Doc. 67.
850 The note on the Aktion in Lublin is an exact copy of the note from the Oyneg Shabes’s
bulletin of 12 April 1942, which was based on Kronenberg’s testimony. See Doc. 49.
