Robert Reich's name on the list of deportees to Nisko, October 1939.
The project with the camp in Nisko, Poland, where Adolf Eichmann sent several transports with Jewish inhabitants of Austria, the Protectorate and occupied Silesia in October 1939, ended in a big fiasco. Instead of creation of a kind of Jewish reservation, the place was in total disarray. The prisoners should have built the concentration camp themselves, but there was nothing to build it from.
Some prisoners, deemed useless, were driven by the supervising SS men under automatic weapons fire into the border river dividing occupied Poland into a part occupied by Nazi Germany and a part occupied by the Soviet Union; others fled to Soviet territory on their own.
In the spring of 1940, the entire project was cancelled and the surviving prisoners were allowed to return home. Eichmann personally learned from the whole event, and the subsequent wave of deportations and killings that he organized took a completely different course.