Transport V left the Radegast station at 7 A.M. on May 8, 1942. This was the fifty-ninth deportation of Jews from Łódź to Chełmno since the deportations began in January 1942. There were 954 Jews were on the train,[1] some of them originally from Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Cologne (Köln), Hamburg, and Düsseldorf.
“Separate lists of individuals "exempted from the V transport"[2] mention the names of 278 people. Approximately thirty were designated for subsequent transports—twenty of them for the one scheduled to leave the next day, May 9, 1942. Another fifty-seven individuals were detained in the assembly area in Marysin and considered as "Überkontingent," i.e., reserves for future transports. They may have been among the eighty "fortunate" people released on May 15.[3] It appears that at least ten persons were exempted from Transport V because they were ill.”
A further nine persons died before the transport left. One of these individuals was Margarete Geisenburg (née Lehmann, b. 3.3.1893).[4] The ghetto administration records note that she died in the ghetto on May 9, 1942....