Transport from Golina, Konin, Lodz, Poland to Zagorow, Ghetto, Poland on 07/1940

The deportation from Golina to Zagórów, some twenty kilometers southwest, was conducted between July 15 and 18, 1940, most likely on July 18. At the same time, other Golina Jews were deported to the Grodziec and Rzgów ghettos. "We got notice from Zagórów (Konin County) that on July 18 all Jews from Kleczew, Golina and Wilczyn, in total 1,600 persons, were rounded up. They were sent, with just a few belongings, to Zagórów, where already 145 Jewish families were to carve out a miserable existence." With this cry for help, Jewish representatives from Poland approached the US Embassy in Berlin on July 28, 1940. A report compiled after the war by Leo-Lewi Monczka from Konin town, who escaped the Warsaw ghetto in April 1943, cites July 15, 1940 as the day on which the Jewish communities in Landkreis Konin were taken by horse-drawn carts to Zagórów and Grodziec, along with, among others, the inhabitants of Kleczew (Lehmstädt), Ślesin (Schlüsselsee), Golina, Rychwal (Reichwald), Wilczyn (Wolfsberg), Kramsk (Kramsried) and Słupca (Grenzhausen)....