Lodz,Ghetto,Poland
Central Prison on Czarnieckiego 16, Lodz ghetto
Assembly site on 3 Krawiecka Street, Lodz ghetto
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Chelmno,Extermination Camp,Poland
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Transport II from Lodz, Ghetto, Poland to Chelmno, Extermination Camp, Poland on 26/06/1944
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Departure Date 26/06/1944 Arrival Date 26/06/1944
On June 15, 1944, the Łódź (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto Chronicle opened with the following words: “The ghetto is once again extremely agitated.”[1] Hans Biebow, head of the Gettoverwaltung (German administration of the ghetto), and Gestapo chief, Otto Bradfisch, visited Chaim Rumkowski—known as the Jewish elder (Judenaltesten)—and demanded that he prepare 600 Jews a day for labor outside the ghetto.[2]
On June 16, 1944, the following announcement appeared in German and Yiddish:
Proclamation no. 416...
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- YVA O.93 / 26645
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Shimon Srebrnik testifies about the deportation from the Łódź ghetto to Chelmno in June-July 1944