Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ƙarshen lokacin rani na 1939, mai mulkin Nazi na Jamus Adolf Hitler, tare da ɗaya daga cikin manyan masu ra'ayin Nazi Alfred Rosenberg, sun haɓaka ra'ayin don "ajiyar" Yahudawa ("Judenreservat"). Garin Lublin a Poland ya kasance mai da hankali ga masu shirin Nazi tun farkon shekarun 1930, bayan Herrmann Seiffert ya bayyana shi a matsayin cibiyar ikon Yahudawa a duk duniya da kuma tushen damar da suke da ita. Bayan da Nazi Jamus ta ci Poland a watan Satumba na 1939 kuma ta raba ƙasar tare da Tarayyar Soviet
, yankin Lublin ya zama wani ɓangare na Generalgouvernement wanda Hans Frank ya jagoranta. Da zarar a ƙarƙashin ikon Nazi Jamus, an bincika yankin da mataimakin Frank Artur Seyss-Inquart a watan Nuwamba 1939. Ya ba da rahoton cewa <unk> a cewar gwamnan yankin <unk> yankin, "mai cike da laka a cikin yanayinsa", zai yi aiki da kyau a matsayin ajiyar Yahudawa, kuma cewa "wannan aikin zai haifar da [su] ƙarancin ƙaranci". A ranar 25 ga Nuwamba, Frank ya sanar da gwamnatin yankin cewa an ba da shawarar shigo da "miliyoyin yahudawa". Hakanan a watan Nuwamba, Odilo Globočnik an sanya shi alhakin duk batutuwan da suka shafi yahudawa a yankin Lublin, yana wakiltar SS a matsayin SS da Shugaban 'Yan Sanda na yankin. Globočnik ya kafa sashen da Dokta Hofbauer ya jagoranta don tsara wurin zama na yahudawan da ake tsammani da kuma daukar su aiki na tilas.