Transport from Zdunska Wola, Ghetto, Poland to Lodz, Ghetto, Poland on 25/08/1942

Zduńska Wola had approximately 27,000 inhabitants at the outbreak of the war. Among them were 9,330 Jews, comprising some 34.5 percent of the city’s population. During the first year of the war, some 3,000 Jewish refugees from neighboring towns including Sieradz, Pabianice, Szadek, Widawa, Burzenin, Klonowa, and Majaczewice were forced to move to Zduńska Wola. In effect, Zduńska Wola had one of the largest Jewish populations in the Warthegau, second only to Łódź.

From the beginning of the occupation, the Jews were persecuted by the Germans, subjected to labor, hunger, and, at times, torture. Groups of Jewish men were sent to forced labor camps in Łęczyn, Luboń, and to Junikowo (Lenzingen) (near Poznań), and to other camps. ...