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Transport from Beuthen, Beuthen O. S. (Oppeln), Silesia (Upper), Germany to unstated place on 13/06/1942

Transport
Departure Date 13/06/1942
The seventh transport from Beuthen allegedly went to Bukowno, as indicated in the handwritten note under the heading "Liste 7" ("ab Bukowno"). The Gestapo entry specifies that 136 Jews from 19 so-called Jew Houses in Beuthen were deported (Bismarckstraße 72 and 82, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Ring 6, 7, 8, 11, 15, 17 and 26, Kirchstraße 5, Krakauerstraße 2, 8, 15, 29, 31 and 44, Langestraße 4, Ostlandstraße 8 and Poststraße 56). According to testimonies of Jews from Slawków, a small town 6 km from Bukowno, the Germans began to empty the ghetto of Slawków on June 10, 1942, selected those fit for work and deported the remaining Jews on June 12 to the railway station in Bukowno. Other testimonies mention deportations from Olskusz (Ilkenau), located 12 km from Bukowno on that same June 13. The Germans had started to liquidate the Olkusz ghetto on June 10. Thus, the Beuthen Jews very likely joined Jews from Bukowno and other small towns and villages from Olkusz county and were then deported further, either to the north east via Kielce into the Lublin District or to Auschwitz. Martin Gilbert even suggests that they were deported to Belzec. However, this seems less likely since the transports to Belzec paused between mid-April and August 1942 due to construction work at the new gas chambers.
There are no known reports about the further destiny of the Beuthen Jews deported on June 13. Apparently nobody survived.
Overview
    No. of transports at the event : 1
    No. of deportees at departure : 136
    No. of deportees upon arrival : 136
    Date of Departure : 13/06/1942