Item Category Assignment

Hi Experts,

We are trying to setup an interface for item category assignment between our prod instance and pre prod instance.

As per my understanding the three transaction types for category assignment is 'CREATE' , 'UPDATE' and 'DELETE'. We would be taking an extract based on last update date on the categories table and mark this date as last run date in our staging table and the next incremental load be run based on the last run date. However we are facing a challenge in case the user 'DELETE'  a category on the item. If there is a delete , we do not have a reference to refer from. So is there any way to capture the delete event for item