Transport from Poznan, Poznan, Poznan, Poland to Ostrow, Wlodawa, Lublin, Poland on 13/12/1939

During the first weeks of Nahplan I (the first Nazi short-term deportation plan), a number of local Jewish individuals and families left Poznań (Posen) on trains that deported both Poles and Jews. A mass deportation of the city’s Jewish inhabitants to the Generalgouvernement (General Government, the zone of Nazi-occupied central Poland not formally annexed to the Reich) took place at the beginning of December 1939. The Nahplan aimed also to remove the unwanted Polish, Jewish, Sinti and Roma populations from the Poznań province and the area of the Polish Corridor. On December 8, 1939, SS-Brigadeführer and chief commander of the police in Posen, Erasmus von Malsen-Ponickau, issued an order—published in the official Nazi newspaper Ostdeutscher Beobachter—that Poles and Jews were to remain in their houses from 7.30 P.M. on December 10, 1939, until 6:00 A.M. the following morning. The Jews of Poznań, under a penalty of death, were ordered to report, with very limited luggage, to the Główna (Glowno) camp on December 11 at 8:00 A.M. ...