Between 9 April and 5 June 1942 altogether four deportation transports with 4000 Jewish men, women and children aboard went from Vienna Aspang Station to Izbica. The village of Izbica is situated about 18 km south of the Kreisstadt Krasnystow in Lublin district, whose original population of about 6000 was about 90 percent Jewish. By means of deportations from other parts of Poland, from the »Protectorate« (Austrians among them), from the »Altreich« and from Vienna the number of Jewish residents rose at times to 12,000.

Most probably to make room for the new arrivals about 2200 people were deported from Izbica to Belzec extermination camp as early as 24 March 1942.

After a gap of a few months an »Umsiedlungsstab« (resettlement unit) of the SS took over the organization of the deportations in the summer of 1942. From summer 1942 at the latest, Izbica seems to have functioned as a kind of »waiting room« for the Belzec extermination camp, whose intake was determined by the capacity of the Belzec gas chambers. On 15 October 1942 10,000 Jews were hoarded together at Izbica railway station and 5000 taken away. During this »selection«, there occured a massacre in the course of which about 500 people were shot.

Of the 4000 Austrian Jews deported to Izbica not one survived.