Transport XXXIV left the Radegast (Radogoszcz) station on the morning of March 27, 1942. This was the forty-eighth transport of Jews from the Łódź ghetto to Chełmno since the deportations began in January 1942, and there were 1,000 people on the transport.[1]
Diarists in the ghetto recorded the scenes on this day. Józef Zelkowicz, one of the authors of The Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto, wrote in his diary:[2]
The deportation is proceeding normally. The prices are going up from minute to minute: bread costs 120–130 marks, a kilogram of flour 120 marks, a kilogram of margarine 100–110 marks. And all the while the people who leave sell their property for pennies: silver candelabra, for example, sold for 30 pfennigs per 10 gram [of silver], sewing machines for 20–25 marks…...