Wave of Deportation from Turek, Ghetto, Poland to Sandhofen, Camp, Poland on 06/1940

According to Holocaust survivors from Turek, in the summer of 1940 four transports left the Turek ghetto; a total of 70‒190 Jews were sent to forced-labor camps in the vicinity of Poznań (Posen) and approximately 100 to forced-labor camps in the vicinity of Rawicz (Rawitsch). According to historian Wolf Gruner, there were indications that the German administration aimed to centralize the forced-labor camps in the Wartheland. An example of this was an order issued by Arthur Greiser, Reichsstatthalter (governor) of the Wartheland, on July 27, 1940, where he ordered to pay Jews standard schedule wages. This led Gruner to reason that the deportation of Jews to forced-labor camps must have been centrally planned by the authorities from the Wartheland as well.
The few deportees who survived the Holocaust, and who testified after the war, say that young men were abducted on the streets, since the Germans needed to fill their quota of forced laborers. The Jewish community was forced to cooperate with the Germans by providing them with names.
Apparently one transport, with 100 young Jewish men, left the Turek ghetto via Kalisz (Kalisch) for the area of Rawicz and was split up on the way. Meir Jakubowicz (b. 1921 in Turek) recounts that they were taken on trucks to Rawicz, some 150 km from Turek. There they were divided into two groups of 50 men: one group was driven 10 km to the forced-labor camp Kubeczki (Sandhofen); the other group was taken to an unknown place. David Pretzel (b. 1918 in Turek) remembers that his group reached Jutrosin (Orlahöh), which was 15 km east of Sandhofen. In both places, according to Pretzel, the Jews were working for the Reichswasserwirtschaftsamt (Reich Water Management Office) in the drainage of creeks and rivers....