The third transport due to leave Glowno was named "Judentransportgruppe No. 475" (Jewish transport group No. 475). According to the list of the UWZ it consisted of nine families, with a total of 46 men and women between the ages of 57‒65. The largest block of deportees held 13 people from the city of Schönlanke, some 22 km from Schneidemühl.
The third group left on Saturday, April 6, 1940, at 5 a.m. by bus to Radinkendorf in Brandenburg. Radinkendorf was a hamlet on the Spree River and a district of the small city of Beeskow, 35 km from Frankfurt/Oder and 100 km southeast of Berlin. A Gestapo...
Following a deportation order issued by the Gauleiter of Pomerania, SA-Obergruppenführer Franz Schwede-Coburg, on February 21, 1940, 544 Jews living in over a dozen Jewish communities in the districts of Köslin (Koszalin), Stettin (Szczecin), and Grenzmark-Posen Westpreussen (Marchia Graniczna Poznańsko-Zachodniopruska)—including the area formerly belonging to Brandenburg (Brandenburgia)—were deported by trucks and buses to assembly sites in Schneidemühl (Piła), located roughly 14 km from the border of the Reichsgau Wartheland.
The division of the deportees who were concentrated in Schneidemühl...
Following a deportation order issued by the Gauleiter of Pomerania, SA-Obergruppenführer Franz Schwede-Coburg, on February 21, 1940, 544 Jews living in over a dozen Jewish communities in the districts of Köslin (Koszalin), Stettin (Szczecin), and Grenzmark-Posen Westpreussen (Marchia Graniczna Poznańsko-Zachodniopruska)—including the area formerly belonging to Brandenburg (Brandenburgia)—were deported by trucks and buses to assembly sites in Schneidemühl (Piła), located roughly 14 km from the border of the Reichsgau Wartheland.
The division of the deportees who were concentrated in Schneidemühl was...