Wave of Deportation from Turek, Ghetto, Poland to unstated place in 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 ca. 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. Jacob Bresler (b. 1928), tells in a postwar testimony about his father, Chaim, who refused to take part in comprising such lists and was thus sent to a forced-labor camp himself. The departure dates of the transports to Poznań are not clear, depending solely on testimonies that mention different stretches between March‒June 1940 as the date of the first transport, and that claim the second transport took place a "few weeks later" in July. The number of deportees is also unclear: it varies between 40‒90 for the first transport and 30‒100 for the second transport....