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

The seventh transport was scheduled to depart from the Łódź ghetto to Chełmno on the morning of July 7, 1944. By July 6, the “quota” of 700 people for the deportation was filled, with all 700 waiting in the Central Prison on 14–16 Czarnieckiego Street.^[1] 

The task of providing the quota of deportees every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday was forced by the German authorities upon the ghetto’s Jewish administration. Heads of all of the 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. By July 6, most managers had provided their lists. Some of these lists have been preserved among the files of the ghetto’s Jewish administration.^[2] An anonymous girl from the Lodz ghetto described these days, noting in her diary on July 6: 

"In all the workshops there are lists of deportees. We are fine, thank God. Pola, Rosen, Cesia the group leader, Ala Najman, and Estera are [on the list] at Mom’s [workshop]. In ours—Ms. Pola, Sonia,  Saba. Nobody is working at all in the workshops and in the departments. There is screaming, crying. No one is allowed to go in to see the manager because everyone on the list wants to go in [and ask] to be crossed out. Stefa Wolborska is on the list, Hanka and Bluma Trawińska, Andzia Nowomiejska."^[3] ...