Umschlagplatz
This chapter refers to SS Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle, the head of Operation Reinhard in Warsaw, who read out the order for displacement of Jews from the ghetto on July 22, 1942. It discusses how the order contains the task for the Jewish Order Service to serve as the executive organ of the Judenrat responsible for carrying out the deportations. It also mentions the few hundred prisoners from Gesia Street who joined the group of deportees from Dzika Street and were led into custody in front of despairing family members. The chapter notes how the Jewish Order Service did not give any explanation as to why they included children in the deportation, but it was speculated that the roundup of beggar children was intended for taking them to the Jewish prison. From the day of the deportation, the Jewish Order Service was then tasked to bring six thousand people to the Umschlagplatz every day.