Transport from Kalisz, Kalisz, Lodz, Poland to Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Lwow, Poland on 14/12/1939

Some 16,000 Jews were deported from Kalisz town to the General Government on at least ten trains between December 2 and 14, 1939. The timetables of the transports in the course of the first Nahplan were compiled in cooperation with the Reichsbahndirektion (railway division) in Poznań (Posen) and the Generaldirektion Ostbahn in Kraków (Krakau).
One of the two transports, which left Kalisz town on December 14, 1939, headed for Rzeszów (Reichshof), some 400 kilometers southeast. Rzeszów is located some 150 kilometers east of Kraków, near today's Polish border with Ukraine.
The deportation was led, planned, and carried out by several officials of RSHA. Albert Rapp, commander of SD (Sicherheitsdienst, Security Service) in Poznań and subordinate of Wilhelm Koppe, HSSPF (Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer, Higher SS and Police Leader) Warthegau, was responsible for the deportations in the Wartheland. On site, the deportation was organized by the mayor of Kalisz, Walter Grabowski, and the Landrat (county commissioner) of Kalisz, Herrmann Marggraf. The railway divisions in Poznań and Kraków supplied the Sonderzug (special train), in which the deportees were shipped to Rzeszów....