Transport, Train 1023 from Glowno, Camp, Poland to Lublin, Lublin, Lublin, Poland on 13/03/1940

The UWZ (Umwandererzentralstelle, the Central Office for Migration) in Posen was responsible for organizing the deportation of all Jews and Poles in camp Glowno, even those who arrived from the Reich. SS-Obersturmbannführer Albert Rapp, the representative of the HSSPF (Higher SS and Police Leader) Wartheland in Posen, directed its work. The UWZ established a list of deportation trains for the Zwischenplan. This list details two trains from camp Glowno after March 11: The first one, train no. 1023, left camp Glowno on March 13, via Lublin, for Jarosław; the second one, train no. 1065, departed on March 15 for Tarnobrzeg.

It is highly likely that this group of Jews from Schneidemühl was forced into train no. 1023. This conclusion can be drawn through an anonymous report (in German) that was based on findings from a Polish-Jewish relief committee, the American Quakers, and the Red Cross. The report, which reached the Reich Chancellery and the German Foreign Office in mid-March 1940, claimed that a group of 160 Jews from Schneidemühl had been deported to the Lublin-Lipowa Reservation. The report was signed on March 14 in Krakow, incorporating the fresh impressions of its author(s) and several details about the deportation. Since there was no train on March 12 from Glowno, the only train that remains on the UWZ list is the aforementioned one on March 13. It was a train with mainly Poles being deported to Jarosław. The train would have carried the Jews in two separate cars and would have stopped in Lublin....