Transport, Train 1067 from Kalisz, Kalisz, Lodz, Poland to Krakow, Krakow, Krakow, Poland on 15/02/1940

This deportation wave, named the interim plan (Zwischenplan), took place between February 10 and March 15, 1940, with at least forty transports dispatched from the Wartheland. Altogether, 40,128 Jews and Poles were uprooted from their homes in the course of this plan. By then, the Jewish community of Kalisz had already suffered heavy losses. In October 1939, a German census put the Jewish population of the town at around 18,000. After the first large deportation wave, in December 1939 (Nahplan I), only 613 Jews were left in Kalisz. In the beginning of 1940, most of those Jews who were left were concentrated in the Kalisz ghetto, and had to perform slave labor for the Germans; others were patients of the Jewish hospital, headed by Dr. Deborah Gross-Shinage. On board the transports leaving Kalisz town to the General Government were also Jews from other nearby places, such as Błaszki, Stawiszyn, and Opatówek (none of which had a train station but were within the vicinity of Kalisz). They were taken to Kalisz in January and February 1940 - sometimes after spending a period in one of the slave labor camps in the Wartheland -, imprisoned at the assembly site in Kalisz, the market hall, and then forced onto the trains....