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Transport from Turek, Turek, Lodz, Poland to Bochnia, Bochnia, Krakow, Poland on 13/12/1939

Transport
Departure Date 13/12/1939 Arrival Date 15/12/1939
Turek synagogue, Szeroka Street
Horse-drawn wagons
Marched by foot
Kolo, train station
Synagogue in Kolo, on street corner Nowy Rynek and Kuśnierska, Poland
Passenger train
Marched by foot
Synagogue in Kolo, on street corner Nowy Rynek and Kuśnierska, Poland
Kolo, train station
Passenger train
Marched by foot
The first deportation from Turek, in the framework of the first Nahplan, included Jews from the town of Turek, along with several villages in Landkreis Turek. The destination was Bochnia -- located in the Cracow district of the Generalgouvernement -- a town known for its salt mines, and which was renamed by the Germans as Salzberg.
There are conflicting reports about the exact departure date of the transport. Some sources date it to November 1939, while several other sources refer to mid-December 1939, which is also the period in which the first Nahplan was carried out. The transport leader, a German gendarme from Dobra, reported to Wilhelm Koppe, HSSPF (Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer, Higher SS and Police Leader) of Wartheland, that the deportees left Turek town on December 13, 1939. According to this report sent to Koppe, a total of 1,195 people were deported on this transport: "239 landowners along with their families, 411 criminal persons along with their families, and 545 Poles and Jews […]."
From Turek, the deportees were taken some 25 km north by foot and by horse-drawn wagons to Koło, and only from there were they deported by train some 400 km southeast to Bochnia. The “Reichsbahndirektionen” (railway divisions) of Łódź and Poznań were informed about the imminent deportation....
Romek (Abraham) Marber - deported from Turek to Bochnia on 13/12/1939