Wave of Deportation from Sompolno, Kolo, Lodz, Poland to Dabrowka, Mogilno, Poznan, Poland on 07/1941

Sompolno was a townlet in the Landkreis (county) of Warthbrücken (Koło) and its Jewish population of approximately 1,200 people was concentrated in a ghetto in 1940. In summer 1941, three transports departed from Sompolno to a forced labor camp in Deutschhöhe (Przychodzko) next to Bentschen (Zbąszyń). Apparently, at the same time, a transport of 100 young Jewish women from Sompolno and other towns in the vicinity departed to Dąbrówka labor camp. A short time before the deportation, the Germans ordered the local Judenrat (Jewish council) to notify the Jews about the impending transport and draw up deportation lists consisting of 400-500 Jewish men. Jews from those transports who survived the Holocaust explain that their families were confronted with a dilemma of which family member to enlist in the transport....