Transport XI left the Radegast station at 7 A.M. on May 14, 1942. This was the sixty-fifth deportation of Jews from the Łódź ghetto to Chełmno since the deportations began in January 1942. There were 706 Jews on the train.[1]
The last three transports from the Łódź ghetto to Chełmno in May 1942 were more chaotic and brutal than earlier ones. One of the diarists in the ghetto, who also contributed to The Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto, Oskar Rosenfeld, wrote in his diary on May 13:[2]
“Roundups [happened] at night in camps since there are not enough deportees for the transports. Huge commotion. As for today no further deportations, but [they are] supposed to continue. People are loaded up, forced away, disappear into the unknown like air… a horrifying night—out of the bed into the tram and train… Wednesday—a concert (Mozart), packed with young workers."...