Transport from Lodz, Ghetto, Poland to Langguhle, Camp, Poland on 14/11/1941

Golina Wielka (Lang Guhle or Langguhle) was originally a village—or, more precisely, a cluster of small farms—located about 2 kilometers southeast of Bojanowo (Schmückert). When occupied by Nazi Germany on September 5, 1939, it was incorporated into the Landkreis Rawitsch (a county, sometimes also called Schmückert Land). In October 1941, a forced labor camp for Jews (Judenlager) was established on the abandoned farm of Józef Bela near the road from Bojanowo to Gierlachow. It was sometimes referred to as concentration camp (Konzentrationslager, or KZ) and called KZ Langguhle. The camp was located inside the main residential building and surrounded by a barbed wire fence. It imprisoned on average between fifty-six and sixty Jews of different ages who hailed from various places in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Berlin. The prisoners worked on behalf of the Wasserwirtschaftsamt, which contracted the German company “Kersthold Jos. u. Matth. Landeskultur. Tiefbauunternehmung.” The Jews in the Langguhle camp had to dig and clean water ducts and ditches in the nearby area. The work was strenuous and the inmates suffered from the hard labor as well as hunger, typhoid, and jaundice. The camp existed until late summer/autumn 1942....