1. Chodel - Centrum miejscowości

Jews in Chodl - Until 1918. - Although Lublin's town registry books contain information about a resident of Chodl in r. 1632 Israel Shmerlowicz, but on a wider scale Jews began to settle in Chodl probably in the mid-18th century. Jewish settlement was not helped by the fact that for a number of years Chodel was owned by the Jesuit order.In 1787. Most Jews were engaged in crafts or trade.They also owned a brewery and two houses. In 1843, Israel Cukierman established a brickyard, but after protests from the town's owner, he soon closed it.There were also several Jewish artisans (tailors, shoemakers, tanners, weavers and bakers).At least since ca. 1860 r. a private beit ha-midrash and mikvah functioned, while in the second half of the 1860s. One of the buildings was converted into a synagogue.No later than approx. 1872 r. A cemetery was delineated, in the 1890s. The synagogue, destroyed by fire, was repaired and a new mikvah was built. In 1910. Most of the Jews made their living from grain trading, stall-keeping and crafts (there were a saddler, a tinsmith, three men's tailors, six women's tailors, eight shoemakers, four carpenters, several bakers, four glassblowers and a feldsher). In 1915. A communal beit ha-midrash was established. During World War I, most of the Jewish homes, stores and the synagogue were destroyed.Interwar Period - In the early 1920s, Jews made up almost half of Chodel's population. They had a synagogue, two beit ha- midrash, a mikva, a ritual poultry slaughterhouse and a cemetery.In 1918. Icek Szulim Kronenblat became rabbi.The two tanneries belonged to Hersz Hochsztejn and Samuel Knoploch. Jews also ran five kosher butcheries and a shipping company, F. Cyrkler and S-ka. Jewish political parties functioned here, while since 1930. - Zionist-revisionist youth organization Beytar.Holocaust - In addition to local Jews, Chodl housed displaced persons from Pulawy (from December 1939), Krakow and Lublin (from March 1941) and Belzec. In June 1942. A group of German Jews was resettled in the ghetto.Most likely in April 1941. ghetto was established.The local Judenrat was headed by merchant Icek Mendel Erlich.In May 1942. The Germans carried out an execution in which they murdered several hundred people.September 21, 1942. They liquidated the ghetto.All Jews were displaced to nearby Poniatowa or Opole Lubelskie. From there, the Jews were probably transported to the Sobibor and Belzec death camps.During the war, the Germans also devastated the Chodelsk cemetery.