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 ΓÇô 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".
