On October the 26 1941 two Goch policemen escorted five Jjewish citizens to Düsseldorf, to go onto a train for Litzmannstadt.

• Jakob Cohen, Weezer Strasse 29, (aged 42)
• Elise Cohen, Weezer Strasse 29, (aged 37)
• Adolf Devries, Weezer Strasse 29, (aged 65)
• Erna Auerbach, Weezer Strasse. 29, (aged 46)
• Karl Sternefeld, Herzogen Strasse 36, (aged 53)

The communal appartment thus cleared of inhabitants in the Weezer Strasse 29 was then shut and sealed-off by the police.

Four Jewish citizens remained in the Herzogen Strasse 36 communal appartment up to the second deportation (to Riga) on the 10th of December 1941.

On the same transport from Düsseldorf some other people who had been resident in Goch prior to 1938 were also taken to Litzmannstadt: Hertha Brünell mit ihren Kinder Herbert und Hannelore.

Everybody on the deportation list even had to pay a fare of 50 Reichsmarks ! . The official order for the evacuation of Jews from Goch determined exactly what could be taken for the jjourney.

The following allowances (per person) were permitted.

1. Cash up to a value of 100 Reichsmarks.
2. One suitcase with contents weighing up to a maximum of 50 Kg.
3. Clothing.
4. Sheets and a blanket
5. Food for 8 days (bread, flower and nuts) - Food that could be consumed during marches lasting up to two days (i.e. sandwiches).
6. Jews were restricted to take no more than could be carried on short marches.

Things that were not allowed to be taken:

• Securities, foreign currency, saving books and so on
• Articles of value (gold, siver, platinum etc.) with the exception of marriage rings.
• Livestock or household pets
• Ration cards , which had to be handed in to the local dept. of trade

Karl Sternefeld was a wealthy man. but of his assets (178,.397 Reichsmarks) he could only take a 100 RM. That was simply theft.

Accompanied by two policemen the little group was first taken to the station in Mönchengladbach. From there they were transported via Düsseldorf to Litzmannstadt. The Ghetto LItzmannstadt (Poland) was a so called "Transit Camp" from where tens of thousends were deported to Auschwitz and other notoious concentration camps . Of the aforementioned 5 Jewish citizens of Goch, none survived. All were murdered, recorded or unrecorded, in either the Ghetto or a Concentration Camp.