Transport from Zloczew, Sieradz, Lodz, Poland to Chelmno, Extermination Camp, Poland on 24/05/1942

Approximately 30,000 Jews lived in Sieradz County at the outbreak of the war; some 1,714 resided in Złoczew, constituting some 32 percent of the town’s population. On September 3, 1939, the German army entered Złoczew, burning most of the town’s buildings and killing 200 people, among them approximately 150 Jews. According to documentation of the District Committee Investigating Nazi Crimes in Poland, at least 700 Jews left the town by March 1940 as a result of the Nazi persecution. Some fled on their own initiative; most were deported in late 1939 to the General Government (Generalgouvernement, the zone of Nazi-occupied central Poland not formally annexed to the Reich) as part of the Germans’ first short-range plan (Nahplan). Approximately 600 Jews, for example, were deported to Lublin in the second half of November 1939. ...