Wave of Deportation from Grodziec, Ghetto, Poland to Lublin, Lublin, Poland on 03/1941

The first train that left in March and was included in the fourth period of deportations to the Generalgouvernement – Nahplan III – was scheduled to leave Konin town on March 10, 1941 at 11:35 AM with 1,200 Jews. The summary report of Nahplan III, signed by Hermann Krumey, the director of the UWZ (Umwandererzentralstelle – Central Resettlement Office) in Lodz, stated, among other things, that the train’s number was 221 and that 1,070 Jews were on board. The exact number of deportees is unclear, since there are 1,001 names of Jews on the deportation list. According to survivors' testimonies, the Jews were taken from the various villages in the Landkreis by 300 horse-drawn carriages to the main assembly point at the train station in Konin. Apparently, some of the Jews and their belongings were directed to the Zagórów (Hinterberg) ghetto. Chaim Reichert was deported with his wife and four children. In 1947, he wrote in his memoirs that while on their way to the train station, the Germans abused them many times and even took pictures while doing so. At the train station in Konin, a group of young men was forced to load their belongings as well as those of the other deportees onto the trains, and in the process of loading them, they were abused by the Germans....