Transport from Kalisz, Kalisz, Lodz, Poland to Lukow, Lublin, Poland on 06/12/1939

The transport to Łuków in the district of Lublin in the General Government (Generalgouvernement) left Kalisz on December 6, and was one of two transports to depart on that day (the other transport went to Kałuszyn). The deportees were assembled in a market hall located in Rynek Dekerta (Dekert's Marketplace), which belonged to two Jewish merchants, brothers Abram and Henoch Szrajer. During the period between December 2 and 14, the majority of the Jewish population of Kalisz was assembled in the market hall. These deportations were organized by the mayor of Kalisz Walter Grabowski, Obersturmführer SS Telo Klause, and several Gestapo men. According to a report on Nahplan I deportations in the Warthegau, the trains were guarded by seven policemen and thirty Selbstschutz (paramilitary Nazi group of ethnic Germans subordinated to the local SS and police)....