Wave of Deportation from Klodawa, Kolo, Lodz, Poland to Buchwerder Forst, Camp, Poland on 06/1941

During the summer of 1941, several thousand Jewish men and women were deported from the Landkreis (county) of Warthbrücken to several slave labor camps near Poznań and Inowrocław (Hohensalza), where most of them perished. These transports were apparently part of a wave of deportations within the Wartheland that may have been related to Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22 and the war effort. Jews were deported from Kłodawa (Tonningen), Sompolno (Deutscheneck), and the ghettos of Izbica Kujawska (Mühlental), Dąbie (Eichstädt) and Koło.
At the beginning of the war, nearly one third of the total population of 4,000 inhabitants of the town of Kłodawa were Jews. After the occupation of the city in September 1939, the Germans renamed it Tonningen. In 1940, after several dozens of Jews fled to the General Government, approximately 1,100 Jews remained.
On June 6, 1941, 150 Jewish men from Kłodawa were deported to the Koło (Warthbrücken) ghetto where they were imprisoned for two weeks. They were then transported by train to the station near Nowy Tomysl (Neutomischel) on June 20, and from there they marched approximately 12 km to Bolewice (Buchwerder/Bollwitz) labor camp. Two weeks later, another group of Jewish men from the Kłodawa ghetto arrived at Bolewice....