Wave of Deportation from Izbica Kujawska, Ghetto, Poland to Poznan, Camp, Poland on 06/1941

Over the summer of 1941, several thousand Jewish men and women were deported from the county Landkreis Wartbrücken (Koło) from Kłodawa (Tonningen) and Sompolno (Deutscheneck), and the ghettos of Izbica Kujawska (Mühlental), Dąbie (Eichstädt), and Koło—to several slave labor camps in the vicinity of Poznań and Inowrocław (Hohensalza), where most of them perished. These transports were apparently part of a wave of deportations within the Warthegau that may have been related to the German war effort following the invasion into the Soviet Union on June 22. The townlet of Izbica Kujawska in the county of Wartbrücken had approximately 3,000 inhabitants; half of them were Jews. After the occupation of the city in mid-September 1939, the Germans renamed it Mühlental and set up a ghetto there in 1940. About 1,000 Jews from Izbica and its basin lived in this overcrowded zone, which was dominated by hunger, diseases, and a high mortality rate....