Transport from Klodawa, Kolo, Lodz, Poland to Gruental, Camp, Poland on 08/1941

According to the testimonies of survivors Felina Gold, née Sperka (born January 29, 1924), recorded on March 1, 1998, and Machla Erdvin, née Aika (born 1923), recorded on November 21, 1999, during one night in 1941, a group of 50 young women were brutally removed from their homes by the German gendarmerie and gathered in the local synagogue. Later, they were transferred to a train station, moved to cattle cars, and transported by train some 100 kilometers north to a labor camp in Grüntal. According to Felina Gold's testimony, the cars were crowded and the journey took about two days, as there were several stops on the way. During the journey, the prisoners were given watery soup to eat.
Although the survivors' testimonies do not provide the exact date of the deportation, according to the archival documents of the Red Cross International Tracing Service, the camp became operational in the summer of 1941. It was owned by the R. Lautruch Wagenbau company. Grüntal was an agricultural labor camp for men and women. Initially, the prisoners worked in the fields, and later they were forced to perform irrigation tasks and to cut trees.
The camp was liquidated on August 28, 1943, when most of the prisoners were transferred to Auschwitz.