Figure 1.--This photograph shows children at the Lodz Ghetto loaded into carts and being driven to the holding areas to await transport to the Chelmo Death Camp. |
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There were horse-drawn carts ready to take those selected to holding areas near the railroad line. The children and other selected were confined to these holding areas until the transport trains arrived. Here we see some of the children selected being marched into a holding area (figure 1). They are still in the Ghetto, walking toward the holding area where they will be trasported to the Chelmo death camp. Sara Plagier, a rare survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, who was 16 years old at the time, relates, "I saw two wagons full of little children drive past the open gate. Many of the children were dressed in their holiday best, the little girls with colored ribbons in their hair. In spite of the soldiers in their midst, the children were shrieking at the top of their lungs. They were calling out for their mothers." Available photographs show calmer groups of children. This probably depended on a variety of factors such how recently they had separated from their parents and their age as well as factors with which we are not yet familiar. The children were thus ready for transport when the trains arrived.
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