October 15: Deportation of German and Austrian Jews to ghettos in the East begins

A mass deportation from Austria to Lodz—5,000 Jews from Austria and a similar number of Gypsies from the Burgenland area—began in the middle of October 1941. Afterwards, another 5,000 Jews were banished to the Lodz Ghetto and 3,000 to the Baltics.