Transport from Slupca, Konin, Lodz, Poland to Niepolomice, Bochnia, Krakow, Poland on 11/02/1940

In the beginning of February 1940, the Jews of Słupca (Grenzhausen), a small town in Konin County, with a Jewish population of 1,426 prior to the occupation, were ordered to gather in a local school building. Five or six Germans entered the Jewish homes and gave the residents approximately fifteen minutes to pack their personal belongings. A survivor from this transport, Arie Poznanski, stated in a post-war testimony that he and his family were taken from their home on February 10, 1940, at approximately 6 p.m., and that they were almost the last family to be taken to the schoolyard. There, he joined approximately 1,000 people. At the assembly point, the deportees were not given any food or water, but some had taken food with them from home. They slept in the school building and the next day, February 11, 1940, were marched to the railroad station. From the station, the Jews were deported to the little town of Niepołomice (Niepolomitz), near Kraków (Krakau), in the Generalgouvernement. The deportees were shipped out of Słupca in eight regular railroad cars with approximately 100 people in each. The conditions on the train were terrible; the deportees were not provided with any food, water or sanitary facilities. Poznanski recalled that the train was guarded by Germans and he assumed that they were Wermacht soldiers....