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On
September 28, 1939, one day after the agreement with the Soviets
assigned the Lublin area to Germany, Heydrich spoke of a
“Reichs-Ghetto” in the Lublin district. The plan to establish a
Jewish “reservation” in that vicinity was part of a more
comprehensive program to reorganize Eastern Europe along
“racial” lines and to physically separate out and isolate the
Jews. The program became operative in early October 1939. Eichmann
visited Vienna, Moravaska Ostrava ( Mahrisch – Ostrau) (in the
Protectorate), and Kattowice (Kattowitz) (Upper Silesia), where he
made preparations for deportations from these three cities.
On October
12, Eichmann chose the Zarzecze vicinity, not far from Nisko on the
San River, to be the heart of a reservation, another plan in the
search for a “territorial solution”.
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