1 Killing site(s)
Waclawa W., born in 1934: "We lived across from the house of a Jewish family. From our window, we saw several Germans arrive from Rachanie to take them from their home. The family was killed one by one and buried a short distance away in the field by local villagers, including my father. Their house stood by the roadside, at the exact spot where the monument now stands." [Testimony N°YIU1477P, interviewed in Tymin, on August 23, 2023]
Tymin is a village in Tomaszów Lubelski County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately 11 km (7 miles) northeast of Tomaszów Lubelski and 103 km (64 miles) southeast of the regional capital, Lublin.
According to a local witness, Tymin was primarily inhabited by Christian Poles. Before the war, a Jewish family of six lived in the village and operated a shop.
Following the outbreak of war, Tymin and the rest of Tomaszów Lubelski County were occupied by German forces in mid-September 1939. After a brief period of Soviet control, the village was returned to German authority in early October 1939.
Gendarmerie and Polish Granatowa Police posts were established in nearby Tomaszów Lubelski, where a ghetto was created to confine approximately 1,500 local Jews. The Germans also set up a gendarmerie post in the pre-war school building in the village of Rachanie, located 5 km east of Tymin. From 1942, a 30-man unit of the Schutzpolizei (German State Security Police) operated from Rachanie, transforming it into a center of persecution.
According to a local witness interviewed by Yahad - In Unum, despite the heavy German presence in the region, the Jewish family living in Tymin remained in their home until they were murdered by German forces in 1942. The victims included the grandparents, their daughter, and her two young children: a three-year-old girl named Szandla and an infant boy named Haimek. On the day of the murder, several Germans—likely gendarmes from Rachanie—entered the family’s home, took them to a nearby field, and shot them. Local villagers, including the witness’s father, were then requisitioned to dig a pit and bury the bodies in the field.
According to other sources, the father of the family—the owner of the shop in Tymin—was killed separately, alongside a group of Jews from Komarów, on a farm in the village of Falków.
A monument has been erected on the site of the family’s former home in Tymin, not far from where they were murdered and buried. It commemorates local residents killed by the Germans in 1942 but does not specify that the victims were Jewish.
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