Transport XXXII from Lodz, Ghetto, Poland to Poznan, Poznan, Poznan, Poland on 15/06/1942

On June 13, 1942, according to Łódź ghetto (Litzmannstadt) registration lists, 211 young Jewish men—115 from Bełchatów and ninety-six from the village of Zelów (both in Łask County)—were brought by trucks to the Łódź ghetto.^[1] Most of the men left their families behind in their respective communities—Jewish men, women, and children who would at a later date be deported either to the Łódź ghetto^[2] or to the Chełmno death camp (Kulmhof).^[3] Upon arrival in Łódź, the deportees were taken to the ghetto's central prison, at 12 Czarnieckiego Street, where some of them were selected for slave labor outside the ghetto.

On June 15, workers’ transport no. XXXII left the Łódź ghetto for Poznań, capital of Poznań County (Posen). The deportees assembled were those men who had been recently deported from Bełchatów and Zelów, as well as men from the Łódź ghetto, who were added to the transport. Pinkas HaKehillot states:

“…1942, when the annihilation of the Jews in all the Wartegau [sic] reached its peak, there flowed into the ghetto Jewish remnants left to live by the Germans through selection; and transports to the labour camps consisted of this new category. When these failed to fill the quota fixed by the Germans, single persons, former criminals, and non-patients in the hospital clinics were selected—and did these not suffice, the Jewish police hunted candidates in the streets and in their homes.”^[4]...