Transport from Buk, Nowy Tomysl, Poznan, Poland to Südhof, Camp, Poland on 07/12/1939

The occupation of Nowy Tomyśl (Neutomischel) County began with the entrance of the German Army in September 1939. In October 1939, the county was annexed to the German Reich within the newly formed Reichsgau (Province) Posen. According to an anonymous Jewish deportee, whose account was preserved in the Oneg Shabbat Underground Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto, headed by Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum, the Jewish communities from Nowy Tomyśl County—among them Buk, Nowy Tomyśl (Neutomischel), Lwówek (Neustadt bei Pinne), Pniewy (Pinne), Szamotuły (Samter), Grodzisk Wielkopolski (Grätz), Wronki (Wronke), Ryczywół (Ritschenwalde), Kłecko (Kletzko), Sieraków (Zirke), and Oborniki (Obornik)—were liquidated at the same time, at the beginning of November 1939. Around 80 percent of the local Polish population was awaiting deportation from the area. By November 7, 1939, around 450 Jews from the various villages in the county had been deported to the assembly camp in Buk. ...