Transport 474 from Glowno, Camp, Poland to Bielefeld, Bielefeld (Minden), Westphalia, Germany on 06/04/1940

The second transport due to leave Glowno was named "Judentransportgruppe No. 474" (Jewish transport group No. 474). According to the UWZ list, the transport consisted of 19 families, with a total of 50 men and women between the ages of 50‒65. Almost half of the deportees (24 people) were from the city of Schönlanke, some 22 km from Schneidemühl. Some deportees were not from the Schneidemühl group. According to a note from the Reichsvereinigung on April 1, 1940, from a meeting with Dr. Jagusch, this group was established since there were hopes that they would still be able to emigrate. They all had relatives in various countries, who would try to sponsor their immigration.

On April 6, 1940, at 5 a.m., the group left by bus headed for the city of Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Western part of Germany. The exact route is not known. Poznań is roughly 700 km from Bielefeld. Depending on the route the bus took, the trip could have taken two days. This is all the more likely, since the bus was first directed to Berlin to unload 11 of the oldest and frailest men and women who were judged unfit for slave labor. The rest of the deportees arrived at Bielefeld's "Jüdisches Umschulungslager" (Jewish reeducation camp) Schlosshof 73a, also known as “Arbeitseinsatzstelle Schlosshof” (fatigue duty Schlosshof), in reality a forced-labor camp, designed as such by the local Gestapo....