Transport XXXVI from Lodz, Ghetto, Poland to Chelmno, Extermination Camp, Poland on 29/03/1942

By March 29, most people who received social benefit or those with some kind of criminal record had been deported. This meant that working people would now also be sent to Chełmno and, according to rumors, chimneysweeps, policemen, firemen, and office clerks would be next in line for deportation. In an entry dated March 29, Józef Zelkowicz wrote in his diary that the ghetto Personnel Department provided a list of 3,000 clerks and Judenrat workers, as well as lower ranking manual laborers, who were liable for deportation.

The deportees assigned to Transport No. XXXVI received their summonses on March 26, 1942. They were instructed to assemble and register on March 28 at 7 Szklana St., near the ghetto's central prison, which was located at 14-16 Czarnieckiego St. ...