Student Profile: S. Langner

When researching S. Langer, Szlama Langer appeared with the correct birthdate to be attending Gymnasium. Szlama was the only person who fit the right criteria: male, born in the right year range to attend gymnasium, lived in the ghetto, etc.

If Szlama is S. Langer his ghetto addresses were ALEXOF 24 and then STORCHEN 1 22. Szlama had a job as a weaver (weber) within the ghetto. Szlama was on the eighth transport number to Chelmno, where he would have been gassed.

I am assuming that if Szlama was on transport number 8, he was one of the first groups to be transported out of the ghetto which means that he most likely ended up in Chelmno.

While you are right that Szlama was transported to Chelmno on a transport assigned the number 8, we don't know if that necessarily means that he was on the eighth transport out of Lodz. We are not sure if Transport #8 refers to Transport VIII from secondary sources (which would place Szlama's transport in the July of 1944), the eighth transport out of Lodz, or something else entirely. While I agree with your research, it is only possible that Szlama was among the first to be transported to Chelmno.