On October 18, the first transport of 901 Jews set out from Moravska Ostrava (Maehrisch Ostrau). The deportees were marched from the Nisko railroad station to a field of marshes near Zarzecze, where they were put to work building barracks. The next day, the best workers in the group were selected and the remainder were marched to the East and dispersed in the Lublin area. Quite a few managed to escape into neighbouring Soviet territory.
