Transport II from Lodz, Ghetto, Poland to Chelmno, Extermination Camp, Poland on 17/01/1942

The second transport from Łódź to Chełmno — with 704 Jews — left the ghetto on Saturday, January 17, 1942, a day after the first transport had left. The ghetto mailmen delivered summonses to the deportees requiring them to report a few days earlier to one of the three assembly sites: 7 Szklana Street (Trödlergasse) near the main prison, Marysin area and the school building at 25 Młynarska Street (Mühlgasse). Deportees whose homes were far from the assembly sites had to cross one of the two bridges above Zgierska Street (Hohensteiner Strasse) — a passage that was physically very hard for a starving population in the snow and the cold of January, when temperatures dropped to -18 °C. When the deportees entered these assembly sites, their bread and food rations were confiscated after which they received their usual food ration in the ghetto from the Judenrat (about 900 calories a day), necessary clothes and wooden clogs. Each deportee was given half a loaf of bread and sausage as provisions for the journey.
Salomon Frank, who lived in the ghetto, wrote in his diary on January 17, 1942, that among the deportees many were sick or were children. Indeed, among the 464 unemployed mentioned on the deportation list were the names of 255 children and youth under the age of 18. Although most of the deportees worked in the textile industry, there were those who were self-employed or workers of various skills and professions such as watchmakers, merchants, accountants, and laborers. Chaim Jankiel Rajchman, 17 years old, who worked in the sweater-manufacturing industry, is mentioned among the names of the eight children listed as skilled workers. He, along with another Jew, was deported directly from the main ghetto prison at 12 Czarnieckiego Street (Schneidergasse). On the contrary, the rest of the deportees arrived at one of the assembly points from their homes. This information appears in a report written by Chaim Rumkowski on March 10, 1942 (about a month and a half after the transport had left) to a policeman of the Kripo (Kriminalpolizei, the criminal police), with the rank of Kriminalkommissar, who had deported those internees — most probably Günther Fuchs. This report gives information about 53 Jewish prisoners from the main prison who were included on the lists of deportees in the transports that left the ghetto in January 1942.
Salomon Frank wrote the following:...