Transport from Grabow, Ghetto, Poland to Chelmno, Extermination Camp, Poland on 04/1942

By the end of September, 1939, the Germans had occupied Łęczyca County, annexing it to the German Reich under the name Landkreis Lentschütz on November 20. Following the occupation, the Germans mistreated the Jews, blackmailed them, and sent them to forced labor. In the course of establishing ghettos all over occupied Poland in the months before April 1940, the Germans erected the county’s first ghetto in Piątek (German: Piontek) and then in Poddębice (Poddembice; December 1940), in Grabów (February 1941), and in Ozorków and the city of Łęczyca (fall/winter 1941).
The county’s total population numbered some 126,000 people, of whom between 9,631 and 14,300 were Jews—numbers which varied with the refugees’ movement. There were 825 Jews registered in the townlet of Grabów at the beginning of the war. In 1940, the community numbered 967 souls. In the winter of 1941—in February, it appears—hundreds of Jews were deported from Łęczyca to nearby Grabów. Also during 1941, a number of men were deported from Grabów to forced labor camps.
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