Transport from Kalisz, Kalisz, Lodz, Poland to Kozminek, Ghetto, Poland on 02/1940

Between December 2 and 14, 1939, the majority of the Jewish population of Kalisz was assembled for transport in the market hall located in Rynek Dekerta (Dekert’s Market), which belonged to two Jewish brothers, Abram and Henoch Szrajer, both merchants. A total of 15,862 Jews were deported from Kalisz and sent to various locations in the Generalgouvernement (the General Government of Poland) on ten transports during this period. Between February 1 and 22, 1940, 1,912 Jews from Stawiszyn, a small town in the district of Kalisz, and from Koźminek (Bornhagen), a village about 20 km to the northeast of Kalisz, were held behind barbed wire in the market hall, where they received rations from the Jewish hospital located at 4 Szopena St. The hospital, founded in November 1939 and directed by Dr. Devorah Gross-Shinagel, served as an important resource for the Jews in the Kalisz region for more than a year, providing help to local Jews and caring for patients brought from the ghettos in the vicinity. Jews from Koźminek and Stawiszyn were sent to Kalisz in the beginning of 1940 and assembled in the market hall together with the Jews from Kalisz. It is most likely that the Jews from Kalisz were held in the market hall for three weeks, whereas the Jews from Koźminek and Stawiszyn were held there for several days....