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

The first Jews to be deported from Dąbie (Eichstädt) were 100–150 men and fifty women, who were taken to two forced labor camps in the Poznań region in July 1941. They were distributed among several work camps between Frankfurt/Oder and Posen; altogether in 37 so-called Reichsautobahnlager where the workforce for the construction of the section of the German highway between Berlin and the Warthegau was housed. When the project was abandoned in 1942, most of the remaining workers were sent to Auschwitz. Some of these workers survived and were the only Jewish survivors of Dąbie. The next transport took place on December 15, 1941. Six young men were sent to dig mass graves in the forest near the Chełmno extermination camp. The Dąbie ghetto was subsequently liquidated and the approximately 900 Jews housed there were sent to the Chełmno extermination camp in two transports on December 18 and 19. However, at least seven Jews were ordered to stay in order to clean out the empty properties and sort and wrap up the deported Jews’ confiscated belongings as spoils for the Germans. All the valuables were collected and stored in Dąbie’s church. After the work was complete, the remaining Jews were brought to the Łódź ghetto....