Comment: On the 20th of March 1943 a transport of 769 women and children from Witebsk in Belorus came to the concentration camp in Lublin. This number did not include children under age of 15. It was the first transport from that area, but not the last one since from January 1944 a total number of 8 thousand people from Belorus were sent to Konzentrationslager Lublin. Transports from the following Belorussian towns arrived to Majdanek: Bobrujsk, Borysow, Lida, Minsk, Mohylew, Smolensk, Witebsk.

In the Majdanek camp families of mother and children were being sparated, many of the never met each other again. Children were carried away in transports to a camp in Konstantynow near Litzmannstadt (Lodz) and KL Auschwitz, mothers to KL Auschwitz or to the Third Reich for forced labour.

The presented transport list, as well as most of survived documentation of a camp chancellery, was found in 1948 in a hearth hole in field 1. In the 60. it underwent conservation. A title of the list indicates it was a developing list. It suggests that there are no numbers and signatures in the list. Apparently, while enlisting to camp records some of the prisoners had their numbers added.
(Krzysztof A. Tarkowski)

External description: Original, paper, size 297x210 mm, in German, first sheet of a list.
Location: Archive of the State Museum at Majdanek, cat. no. APMM, I d.16, k.2.