Transport from Gostków, Leczyca, Lodz, Poland to Lodz, Lodz, Lodz, Poland on 05/09/1940

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. 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. In the village of Gostków, part of the municipality of Wartkowice, there were only twelve Jews at the time.
On September 5, 1940, two families—ten Jews altogether—were deported from Gostków some 40 kilometers southeast to an assembly site in Łódź (Litzmannstadt).
A letter dated September 6, 1940 from Gendarmeriekreis Lentschütz (Łęczyca County’s gendarmerie) to the UWZ (Umwandererzentralstelle—Central Resettlement Office) in Litzmannstadt (Łódź) notes that SS-Hauptsturmführer Butschko, head of Łęczyca’s “resettlement staff” (Ansiedlungsstab), gave the order for the deportation. The ten deportees, it states, were guarded by the Hilfsgendarmen (gendarmerie support troops). No further information is given about the transport itself....