Transport VI from Lodz, Ghetto, Poland to Chelmno, Extermination Camp, Poland on 05/07/1944

The five transports that had departed from Łódź for Chełmno between June 23 and July 3, 1944, left only a small reserve of future deportees at the Central Prison on 14–16 Czarnieckiego Street.^[1] This meant that some 700 new deportees had to be found between July 3 and 5 for the sixth transport, which departed on July 5.

The task of providing the quota of deportees every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday was forced upon the Jewish administration of the ghetto by the German authorities. Heads of all work departments were made to select those who were deemed less necessary than others, and to provide a list of between 20 and 25 percent of their workers.

Liza Taflowicz, who lived in the ghetto, recalled these days:...