Transport from Dabrowice, Kutno, Warszawa, Poland to Kutno, Ghetto, Poland on 6/1940

The area surrounding Kutno was occupied by the German army around mid-September 1939. On October 26, it was annexed to the so-called Wartheland, and administrated as part of the Landkreis (county) of Kutno. The county numbered approximately 110,000 people; some 10 percent of them were Jews, of whom 150 lived in the townlet Dąbrowice. As in the rest of Kutno County, the persecution of Jews in Dąbrowice began immediately with the occupation; the Germans imposed curfews, mistreated the Jews, and even tortured some Jews to their deaths. The ghettoization in Kutno County took place in the spring and summer of 1940. The first ghetto was erected in Krośniewice between April and May; the next—the county’s biggest ghetto—was formed in Kutno on June 15–16; and, finally, a ghetto was established in Żychlin on July 20. In accordance with the ghettoization process, Jews from the county were slated to be brought to the biggest ghetto—in Kutno—but aside from Dąbrowice, it appears, no other small communities existed at that time. ...