Wave of Deportation from Kalisz, Kalisz, Lodz, Poland to unstated place on 07/07/1942

According to the “Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto,” the deportations began on July 6, 1942. The local Jewish council in Kalisz rented wagons and even a car for transportation. One hundred and fifty Jews from Kalisz were assembled in front of the train station. Concurrently, hundreds of Jews from the Koźminek (Bornhagen) Ghetto were taken there by bus. The liquidation of the Koźminek Ghetto was commanded by SS officers Willi Schonrogge and his deputy Heinrich Notlee. According to Moshe Gross, born in 1921, who resided in the Kalisz Ghetto, the deportees were assembled at the local Reich and Chmielnicki mill, which was located next to the train station. Moshe recalled some Jews’ attempts to flee and hide, denunciations, and Jews turning themselves in. In the assembly area, the Germans, probably Gestapo and Gettoverwaltung (German ghetto administration) employees, carried out a selection process: some 522 Jews were sent to the Łódź Ghetto. According to some sources, another transport reached Hohensalza (Inowrocław) forced labor camp, some 130 kilometers from Kalisz. However, there is contradictory evidence regarding the size of the transport and the destiny of the deportees. The "Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto" reported about another 100 deportees sent to the forced labor camp of Hohensalza. However, according to Nechama Bar-Nir/Berlinski who was in this transport and apparently the only one to have survived the Holocaust, they were only 38 persons. The deportees were sent to the village of Mątwy and worked there in the sodium hydroxide industry. The other 62 Jews were deported to an unknown place....