Transport from Sompolno, Kolo, Lodz, Poland to Lodz, Ghetto, Poland on 24/06/1942

The first deportations of Jews from Sompolno appear to have occurred in February 1940; after the war, Samuel Stopnik testified to the USC Shoah Foundation that he was deported to the Dachau concentration camp on February 20, 1940. The next known deportations took place in the summer of 1941. One hundred and fifty strong young Jewish men and fifty women between the ages of eighteen and forty were deported in several waves to three forced labor camps in different parts of the Wartheland. The subsequent deportation was comprised of thirty Jews and took place on December 8, 1941, the date of the Chełmno extermination camp’s establishment. The deportation of most of the Jews in Sompolno occurred between February 2 and 4, 1942. Between 1,000 and 1,200 Jews were forced into a lumber storehouse next to the train station and taken to the Chełmno extermination camp between February 3 and February 4, 1942, either by train or by truck.
During the raid on February 2, 1942, an unknown number of Jews were left behind in Sompolno in order to clean out the empty properties and to sort and wrap up the deported Jews’ confiscated belongings, which served as spoils for the Germans. Several sources note that the last Jews from the town were deported to the Łódź ghetto in June 1942.
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