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Transport from Turek, Ghetto, Poland to Kowale Panskie, Ghetto, Poland on 02/10/1941

Transport
Departure Date 02/10/1941 Arrival Date 02/10/1941
Turek,Ghetto,Poland
Horse-drawn wagons
Marched by foot
Kowale Panskie,Ghetto,Poland
Of the Jews in Landkreis Turek, about one-quarter resided in the town of Turek. On December 13, 1939, several hundred Jews from Turek town and the surrounding area were deported to the Generalgouvernement (General Government, the zone of Nazi-occupied central Poland not formally annexed to the Reich). From February 1940 onwards, the Jews from town began to be relocated in the area of Wide Street, which, in July, was declared a ghetto. From there, shortly after, young male Jews were deported to slave labor in the vicinity of Poznań (Posen). The liquidation of the ghetto began on October 1, 1941, on the eve of Yom Kippur (the beginning of the Jewish Day of Atonement), under the command of SS officer Georg Glaustein.
Shmuel Glube, a native of Turek, recalled in his postwar memories how, on the eve of Yom Kippur, a Volksdeutsche responsible for agriculture in Landkreis Turek told Hersz [Hirsch] Zimnawoda, the head of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) of Turek town, that all Jews were to move to Heidemühle, and that no one would be hurt. The Jews organized a committee for organizing their forced move to the ghetto, which included refugees from Brudzew, Dobra, Uniejów, Tuliszków and Pęczniew.
On the day of Yom Kippur, on October 2, 1941, all the Jews in the Turek ghetto were deported some 20 km south to Kowale Pańskie, most of them to Młodzianów, one of the villages included in the ghetto....
Overview
    No. of transports at the event : 1
    Date of Departure : 02/10/1941
    Date of Arrival : 02/10/1941