Transport from Sanniki, Ghetto, Poland to Czarkow, Camp, Poland on 09/03/1942

After the establishment of the German civil administration on October 26, 1939, the village Sanniki was incorporated into the Third Reich as part of Landkreis (county) Gasten, Regierungsbezirk Hohensalza, Reichsgau Wartheland. A German report of the participation of Einsatzgruppe 6 in deportations of Poles and Jews from Warthegau, states that in 1939, the number of Jews in Sanniki was 290.^[1] In December 1939, Sanniki had 5,382 inhabitants, of which 311 were Jewish. Before the establishment of the ghetto in Sanniki, Jews from the neighboring villages of Słubice and Osmolin were resettled to Sanniki, raising the Jewish population to 351. ^[2]

The ghetto, which was established in September 1940, was under the authority of the local representative of the civilian administration (Amtskommissar Kahle). Many Jews in Sanniki were forced to leave their apartments and move into the small ghetto that included just a few streets.^[3] The liquidation of the ghetto began on March 1942, around Purim. The Gestapo was surrounding the entrances of Sanniki, as it happened in all the Jewish quarters of the Gostynin district in Spring 1942.

Rabbi Yehoshua Moshe Aronson of Sanniki, who was appointed Rabbi of the community since 1937,^[4] testified that on the night of March, 8, the Jews of Sanniki were very anxious of what was to come. A rumor was heard that the Jews were being murdered in Chełmno. Michael Podchelbnik’s testimony about the mass murder of the Jews in Chełmno, reached the district of Gostynin in 1942.^[5]...