Transport from Schneidemuehl, Schneidemühl (Grenzmark Posen-Westpreussen), Pomerania, Germany to Neuendorf im Sande, Lebus (Frankfurt a. d. Oder), Brandenburg, Germany on 22/02/1940

Pomeranian Jews living within a radius of about 100 km from Schneidemühl — in over a dozen Jewish communities in the districts of Köslin (Koszalin), Stettin (Szczecin) and Grenzmark-Posen Westpreussen (Marchia Graniczna Poznańsko-Zachodniopruska), including the area formerly belonging to Brandenburg (Brandenburgia) — were arrested. Within one single day, 544 Jews were deported by trucks and buses to places of detention in Schneidemühl, the capital city of the Grenzmark-Posen Westpreussen district.

Shortly before the raid took place, the local representative of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich Association of Jews in Germany) in the Schneidemühl area, Dr. Hildegard Böhme, had informed the Reichsvereinigung in Berlin about the plan for the impending deportation. The office in Berlin therefore petitioned the RSHA and they were informed that the destination of the deportations had been changed: the Jewish detainees were to be kept within German territory....