Transport VI from Lodz, Ghetto, Poland to Chelmno, Extermination Camp, Poland on 27/02/1942

On February 27, 1942, the 6th transport of the month was dispatched from the Radegast train station, with 1,003 Jews on board. The deportees were summoned from several neighborhoods within the ghetto, where whole buildings were being evacuated. This phenomenon had taken place in January, too: it might have been due to the Germans’ demand for more space for workshops that produced military-related equipment, as stated by Günther Fuchs after the war. The deportees were ordered to assemble 2-3 days before their deportation at 7 Szklana Street (Trödlergasse), near the central prison of the ghetto; in Marysin, the agricultural area of the ghetto, where many youth and children lived; or in the school at 25 Młynarska Street (Mühlgasse)....