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Transport from Brudzew, Kolo, Lodz, Poland to Kowale Panskie, Ghetto, Poland on 02/10/1941

Transport
Departure Date 02/10/1941 Arrival Date 02/10/1941
Horse-drawn wagons
Kowale Panskie,Ghetto,Poland
On Yom Kippur (Jewish Day of Atonement), on October 2, 1941, all the Jews from Brudzew were deported about 20 km south to Kowale Pańskie — most of them to Pacht, one of the villages within the ghetto.
Bronka Górna, one of the deportees, sent a letter from the Kowale Pańskie ghetto to her family in the Warsaw ghetto. This letter, bearing the stamp of October 7, 1941, found its way to the "Oneg Shabbat" underground archive, headed by Emanuel Ringelblum. In the note Bronka wrote that, since Thursday, they had been in the colony [the ghetto], comprised of a few villages, together with other Jews from Brudzew, and from places like Turek or Wladislawow. In Pacht, she wrote, there were more than 100 people.
In the ghetto of Kowale Pańskie, several deportees had to share a room in a peasant's hut, without any heating. Some deportees had to reside in stables, barns and other unheated wooden sheds....
Overview
    No. of transports at the event : 1
    Date of Departure : 02/10/1941
    Date of Arrival : 02/10/1941