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

Izbica Kujawska (Mühlental) was occupied by the Wehrmacht on September 13, 1939. Its estimated population of 1,600 Jews was immediately required to wear the yellow star. On September 16, a group of community leaders was detained and abused for about a month.The Star of David was removed from the synagogue facade and the building was turned into a grain warehouse. Jewish properties were confiscated and the Jews evicted and herded into fewer houses and apartments in a closed ghetto established on specific streets on January 1, 1940. A Judenrat was erected under the leadership of Eliahu Itzvitski, who had served as chairman of the community board before the war. The Judenrat was forced to supply a daily quota of men to perform forced labor for the Germans. Furthermore, it was used to provide Jewish valuables to the Germans. At the beginning of 1940, Jews from the surrounding area were brought into the ghetto, specifically from Nowiny Brdowskie (Neuhagen) and Babiak (Waldau). The conditions in the severely overcrowded ghetto were dire and included daily humiliation and abuse by the Germans, hunger, and diseases—primarily a typhus epidemic. In May 1940, all of the men were ordered to report for a census and a large number of young men were taken to the Mogilno labor camp. Additional deportations of several hundred Jewish women and men to forced labor camps occurred first on June 24, 1941, to a camp near Inowrocław (Hohensalza) and to Poznań (Posen), and then on January 6 and 9, 1942, to the gravedigger Sonderkommando in the Chełmo extermination camp. On January 14, 1942, the liquidation of the ghetto began....