Transport from Babiak, Kolo, Lodz, Poland to Bugaj, Ghetto, Poland on 02/10/1940

On October 2, 1940, all 240 Jewish men, women, and children of Babiak, around 50 families, were deported to Bugaj and Nowiny Brdowskie. On the same day, around 560 people from the city of Koło (Warthbrücken) were deported to the ghetto as well. On October 19, 1940, the head of the Koło Jewish community wrote a letter to the Joint in Warsaw, informing them that after the deportations on October 2, 1940 around 900 Jews were living in Bugaj. The deportees were promised work in the forest, emphasizing that they were "fit for work." However, after nearly two weeks the deportees were still left with no means to earn a living. The head of the Jewish community asked for help to improve the sanitary conditions, as well as money and clothes for the deportees. He concluded his letter by asking the recipient to pay attention to the fate of the deportees. The letter was received by the Joint on October 22, 1940. On January 13, 1942, when the Germans dismantled the ghetto, those Babiak Jews at Bugaj who previously had not been marked as "fit for labor" and therefore not yet deported to a slave labor camp, were deported to Chełmno death camp and murdered.