Transport from Kozminek, Ghetto, Poland to Goluchow, Murder Site, Poland on 30/11/1941

From November 26, 1941 the ghetto was surrounded by gendarmerie. Each morning, Gestapo and a special SS unit (Rollkommando) commandeered by Göhler ordered the residents to report within 15 minutes to the square next to the local synagogue. They were allowed to bring one parcel of personal belongings. In the beginning, the deportees were told that the ghetto was being exclusively turned into a labor camp. Therefore, anyone who was not yet employed, specifically the children and the elderly, would be "evacuated." The younger ones would go to a children's home and the elderly to a sanatorium. Göhler stopped providing pretexts after the first deportations. When the Jews were assembled at the square, Göhler read out loud the names of the victims. They had to leave their belongings behind and were locked in the synagogue without provisions. They stayed there overnight. On November 29, the deportees appeared with many relatives at the square for a so called "children’s resettlement." Göhler, with the help of 15 SS men, selected mainly children under 14 from the rest of the Jews. There were babies among them as young as eight days old. When parents resisted, the Germans tore the children from their arms, and if this did not produce the desired result, the resisters were shot. Concurrently, a search was undertaken for those who were in hiding and had not turned up at the square; anyone found was shot. The exact number of those murdered during the selection procedure is not known, but the court in Stuttgart sentenced Göhler for personally having killed at least ten victims....