Transport from Pabianice, Ghetto, Poland to Kaluszyn, Minsk Mazowiecki, Warszawa, Poland on 12/1939

On September 8, 1939, German troops entered Pabianice, home to between 8,500 and 9,000 Jews. Pabianice was the capital of Łask County, Wartheland (Warthegau), and the seat of the Łask Landrat (county administrator), Alfred Todt. T. Sasna-Lifszyc, in the Pabianice Book, recalls that immediately with his appointment in mid-October 1939, the Landrat began to persecute the local Jews. Sasna-Lifszyc gives names of Germans working for the Landrat, among them two men called Kaszada and Keller; the latter, she states, was in charge of Jewish property. At the end of December 1939, in the context of the so-called Nahplan (short-term plan), the German authorities carried out a transport of Jews from Pabianice to Kałuszyn, a townlet in the Warsaw district of the General Government (Generalgouvernement, the zone of Nazi-occupied central Poland not formally annexed to the Reich). A precise date for the deportation has not yet been ascertained. According to the Pabianice Book, some 500 Jewish men, women, and children were deported. ...