Transport VII from Lodz, Ghetto, Poland to Chelmno, Extermination Camp, Poland on 28/02/1942

According to the list of February transports, Transport No. 7 left the Łódź ghetto on February 28, 1942. There were 1,006 Jews on the train. According to the Łódź ghetto census, Estera Hinda Bulwar, a 66-year-old woman, was on this transport with her daughter and granddaughter. The Reichsbahn requested from the Geheime Staatspolizei the amount of 2,853.20 reichsmark for the transport of 1,019 people (1,006 Jewish deportees and 13 guards) from Łódź to Koło on February 28, 1942 and 72.80 reichsmark for the train's journey back to Łódź. There is no specific information about Transport No 7. According to an invoice submitted by Biebow, trains that left Łódź in February covered a distance of 140 km from the Radegast Station to Koło. According to various sources, transports from the Łódź ghetto usually arrived at the Koło railway station, via Kutno, at around 1 p.m. The deportees were forced to leave the train and add their luggage, if they were allowed any, to the pile. All the while, they were beaten and abused by the German guards. According to various eyewitnesses who worked at the train station in Koło in 1942 and who testified in June 1945 to the Główna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Polsce (Central Commission Investigating Nazi Crimes in Poland), all those employed at the station were forbidden to go near the platform when the transports pulled in. Irena Helena Lange, who worked in the station's ticket office, stated in her testimony that there were collective tickets for the transports. These tickets, which listed the number of people per transport, were sent twice a month to the railway management in Frankfurt on Main....