Transport from Zagorow, Ghetto, Poland to Kazimierz Biskupi, Murder Site on 22/09/1941

On September 21 and 22, the remaining 1,500 to 1,600 Jews from the Zagórów ghetto were the first Jews of the district of Konin to be murdered by Lange. They were deported to the Wygoda section of the forest near Kazimierz Biskupi (Bischofshofen), also in Landkreis Konin. The killing site was about thirty-five kilometers from the ghetto. The Jews were assembled with their luggage at Zagórów’s community center, loaded onto trucks, and driven directly to this forest.
Leon Jedwab, who was born in Zagórów in 1923 and had been sent to Inowrocław for forced labor on several railway lines, testified after the war that two of his friends from Zagórów who were working for the same railway project had been granted permission to return to their hometown for the Jewish New Year on September 22 and 23, 1941. They arrived on the eve of Rosh Hashanah and witnessed the ongoing deportation of most of the remaining Jews – mainly women, children and elderly – among them Jedwab’s mother, brother, and sister. "They took them away on September 21, 1941, in hermetically sealed cars. This is the day when I say Kaddish."
Dr. Mieczysław Sękiewicz, a Polish veterinarian from Konin was held in the local jail at the time, since the Germans suspected him of being involved in resistance activities. On September 21, he was ordered, with two other fellow prisoners, into a car that drove north, past the town of Kazimierz Biskupi, and into the woods. Sękiewicz testified in a deposition he gave to the Court of Konin in 1945 that he saw two pits when he arrived – the first one, about eight meters long, six meters wide, and more than two meters deep; and the second just as deep and wide, but about fifteen meters long. Groups of Jews were standing or sitting around the entire clearing, among them mothers with babies. Sękiewicz heard that they were mostly from Zagórów. He recognized several of them. He described the murder of the Jews on the first day, i.e. on September 21, as follows:...