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Transport IV from Lodz,Ghetto,Poland to Chelmno,Extermination Camp,Poland on 07/05/1942

Transport IV from Lodz, Ghetto, Poland to Chelmno, Extermination Camp, Poland on 07/05/1942

Transport

Departure Date 07/05/1942 Arrival Date 08/05/1942

Lodz,Ghetto,Poland

7 Szklana street, Łódź

A school building on Jonschera (Bertram) street, Marysin

Five houses on Okopowa street (Buchdrucker), Marysin

Marched by foot

Tram

Łódź,Lodz,Lodz,Poland

Radegast railway station

Passenger train

Kutno,Kutno,Warszawa,Poland

Passenger train

Kolo,Kolo,Lodz,Poland

Kolo, train station

Narrow-gauge train

Open freight cars

Powiercie,Kolo,Lodz,Poland

Marched by foot

Zawadka,Kolo,Lodz,Poland

Mill in Zawadka

Bus

Trucks

Chelmno,Extermination Camp,Poland

Transport IV left the Radegast station at 7 A.M. on May 7, 1942. It was the fifty-eighth deportation of Jews from Łódź to Chełmno. There were 952 Jews on the train,^[1] most originally from Hamburg and Düsseldorf,^[2] and some from Vienna^[3], Berlin,^[4] and Cologne.^[5]

On Thursday, May 7, 1942 Josef Zelkowicz, one of the Ghetto Chronicle writers, wrote the following entry in his diary:

“Today the fourth transport of the "foreigners" left—five thousand (...). As in the three previous ones, also today people could not take anything with them, other than what they wore.“^[6]...