Transport from Slesin, Konin, Lodz, Poland to Grodziec, Ghetto, Poland on 07/1940

Between 13 and 18 July, 1940, most of the Jews of Ślesin were deported on foot and by horse-drawn wagons to ghetto Grodziec, some forty-five kilometers south. At the same time, other Ślesin Jews were deported to Zagórów ghetto.
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).
Max Tzadok was twenty-one years old when he and his family were deported from their hometown of Ślesin to Grodziec. In a post-war interview Max Tzadok recalls the events:...