Transport from Grodziec, Ghetto, Poland to Danzig, Danzig, Free City of Danzig on 03/1941

In March 1941, three transports left from Lodz (Litzmannstadt) to a few labor camps in the Wartheland (also known as Warthegau): on March 26, sixty Jews were deported to Danzig (Gdansk), on March 27, fifty-nine Jews were deported to Straschin Prangeschin, followed by sixty more on March 29. These transports were part of an ongoing wave of deportations of Wartheland Jews to labor camps, a wave that began on December 10 1940. A number of officials made the decision on these deportations, among them: Arthur Greiser, governor of the Wartheland; Friedrich Uebelhoer, district president of Litzmannstadt (Łódź); Hans Biebow, administrative head of the Lodz Ghetto; and Ernst Kendzia, head of the Ministry of Labor in Poznań (Posen). Usually, those who were deported from Lodz to labor camps were the Jewish residents of the ghetto. However, the majority of the deportees on the transports that left in March 1941 were Jews from Konin Landkreis (county), who had been deported to Łódź two weeks earlier on two trains (or three, according to some). They were detained at the Durchgangslager Flottwellstrasse transit camp, formerly a factory not far from the Kaliska train station, about two kilometers from the ghetto. At the camp, the Germans searched the Jews for hidden possessions and conducted a selection: most of the Jews who were deported in March 1941 from Konin Landkreis were deported to the Generalgouvernement after staying one night in the transit camp, and the rest were deported, as stated above, to labor camps in the Wartheland....