Wave of Deportation from Poznan, Poznan, Poznan, Poland to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 28/08/1943

The last mass deportations from the forced labor camps in the Wartheland (known also as Warthegau) took place in course of their liquidation, toward the end of August 1943. At this time the Nazis concentrated in Posen (Poznań), Hohensalza (Inowrocław) and Rawitsch (Rawicz) nearly all the Jews who remained in the camps that were located in the vicinity of these towns. Then, within hours or days, the Jews were deported in railway cattle cars to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Yad Vashem estimates that these transports probably carried a total of approximately 5,000 Jews, some of whom were beaten to death during the liquidation of the camps, were executed, or died on the journey. Very few managed to escape from the camps during these last days.
Although the possibility cannot be ruled out that there was only one mass transport by train, it is more likely that two or more transports left between August 28 and 31. If so, the first train probably contained forced laborers from Posen and Rawitsch and set out on August 28 or 29; the second train would have left Hohensalza on August 30 or 31, with Jews from Posen and Rawitsch. This conclusion arises from registration files in Auschwitz, compiled by the Polish underground, containing names of Jews, registration dates, and inmate numbers.
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