Transport from Muenchen, München (München), Bavaria, Germany to Piaski Luterskie, Lublin, Lublin, Poland on 03/04/1942

Piaski (Piaski Luterskie), a small town 21 kilometers southeast of Lublin also functioned as a transfer ghetto and the deportation in April 1942 from Munich to Piaski may be seen as related to the mass killings in the General Government. According to a note by the Department of Population and Welfare of the civil administration of the General Government, SS Hauptsturmbannführer Hermann Höfle, assistant to Odilo Globocnik, head of the SS and Lublin police and in charge of the Reinhard camps, announced on March 16, 1942: “Piaski is to be vacated of Polish Jews and become an assembly site for the Jews who come from the Reich.” On April 1942, some 4,200 Jews from Germany and 1,000 from the Protectorate were sent to Piaski Luterskie, along with Jews from Kalisz. The transport that departed from Munich to Piaski Luterskie on April 3 with 989 Jews on board was also part of these deportations.
As with the transport that left Munich for Kaunas/Kovno on November 20, 1941, this one was also planned by the local Gestapo. Historian Christiane Kuller writes that the more than 40 individuals and organizations that participated in carrying out the deportation to Piaski Luterskie, including transportation companies, assessors, and tradesmen, all profited from the deportation and expropriation of the Jews.
Instructions were sent to the deportees up to two weeks before the deportation, detailing how they should prepare themselves: they were told to leave their apartments clean, hand in the keys to their homes, and bring signs with their names with them. They were also informed that they would be arriving at new homes in the East....