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Transport XIII from Lodz,Ghetto,Poland to Chelmno,Extermination Camp,Poland on 06/03/1942

Transport XIII from Lodz, Ghetto, Poland to Chelmno, Extermination Camp, Poland on 06/03/1942

Transport

Departure Date 06/03/1942 Arrival Date 07/03/1942

Lodz,Ghetto,Poland

7 Szklana street, Łódź

Marysin, Łódź

School compound, 25 Młynarska street, Łódź

Łódź,Lodz,Lodz,Poland

Radegast railway station

Passenger train

Leczyca,Leczyca,Lodz,Poland

Passenger train

Kutno,Kutno,Warszawa,Poland

Passenger train

Kolo,Kolo,Lodz,Poland

Kolo, train station

Synagogue in Kolo, on street corner Nowy Rynek and Kuśnierska, Poland

Marched by foot

Trucks

Kolo,Kolo,Lodz,Poland

Synagogue in Kolo, on street corner Nowy Rynek and Kuśnierska, Poland

Kolo, train station

Marched by foot

Trucks

Chelmno,Extermination Camp,Poland

A document dated March 23, 1942, detailing the cost of the transports, which was sent by the Reichsbahn Verkehrsamt (Transportation Authority of the German national railway) to the Gestapo Litzmannstadt, records that “Transport XIII” left in the morning of March 6, 1942, and that there were 812 Jews on board the train. The train, marked as "Pj-Zug" (German abbreviation for “Polnischer Judenzug,” a "train with Polish Jews") also had thirteen policemen on board; they were guards from the Schupo (Schutzpolizei, the uniformed regular local German police force ). The fare for the guards was added to the transportation costs. ...