Transport from Lubraniec, Wloclawek, Warszawa, Poland to Lodz, Ghetto, Poland on 28/09/1941

The Włocławek region in its entirety was occupied by the Germans by mid-September 1939. As in the case of Litzmannstadt (Łódź), Leslau (Włocławek) was considered by the Germans to consist of two separate units—“Kreis Leslau Stadt,” the city, and “Kreis Leslau Land,” the county. Before the war, at least 15,042 Jews lived in the county and the city together.
After the annexation, many Jews fled or were deported to the General Government (Generalgouvernement, the zone of Nazi-occupied central Poland not formally annexed to the Reich). As a result, the number of Jews in the city dropped significantly to some 3,200; approximately 5,000 remained in the Włocławek region.
In both Lubraniec and Brześć Kujawski the Jewish population made up approximately one quarter of the residents. In Lubraniec, there were over 1,000 Jews before the war, but hundreds fled during the first days following the war’s outbreak. Jewish refugees from nearby communities began to flock to the town. By the beginning of 1941, 991 Jews lived in Lubraniec, and in June 1941 almost all of the remaining Jewish men were deported to forced labor camps in the Poznań area. In 1939, 633 Jews lived in Brzesc Kujawski. This number fluctuated only slightly; in the beginning of 1941 there were 648 Jews. The town’s able-bodied men were also deported to forced labor camps. ...