Wave of Deportation from Wloclawek, Ghetto, Poland to Chelmno, Extermination Camp, Poland on 27/04/1942

The Włocławek region was occupied by the Germans in its entirety by mid-September 1939. As in the case of Litzmannstadt (Łódź), the city of 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 both the county and the city.
After the annexation, many Jews had 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, reaching some 3,200 people, with approximately 5,000 in the entire Włocławek region. By November 1940, a ghetto had been established in the city’s poorest area. In the summer of 1941 hundreds of Jews were deported to forced labor camps in the Poznań area.
In the fall of 1941, 937 Jews were deported from Włocławek to the Łódź ghetto, reducing the size of the ghetto. Nonetheless, living conditions deteriorated, hunger grew, and typhus broke out. On November 6, 1941, the Germans sealed the ghetto, keeping food and medicine from reaching the Jews. It appears that news about the deportations from towns in the Warthegau to the Chełmno (German: Kulmhof) death camp had reached the ghetto. ...