Transport from Zagorow, Ghetto, Poland to Pakosch, Camp, Poland on 06/1941

Among the deportees from Zagórów to Pakość was Reuven Landau. In a post-war interview he recalled the events. Reuven Landau came originally from Wilczyn (Wolfsberg), from where he had been deported to Zagórów in the summer of 1940. It was presumably June 1941, when he and his brother Shmuel were deported from the Zagórów ghetto to the forced labor camp in Pakość some eighty kilometers north. This was the last time they would see their parents, who were murdered by the SS Sonderkommando (special unit) Lange, in a forest near Kazimierz Biskupi (Bischofshofen), in autumn 1941, when the Zagórów ghetto was dismantled. Only young men were taken to Pakość, and his transport was one of the first to arrive at the forced labor camp. The deportees were imprisoned in Pakość, where the Germans concentrated Jews and Poles. Pakość was one of the many camps that existed in Inowrocław city and on its outskirts, an area that functioned as a major hub for Jewish deportees of the Wartheland while on their forced journeys through the ghettos and camps of German-occupied Poland....