 An additional 34,000 victims were sent to Chelmno by 2 April, with 11,000 more in May, and over 15,000 in September 1942, for a total of 71,000 for 1942 as a whole.The children and the elderly as well as anyone deemed "unfit for work" in the eyes of the "Judenrat" would follow them.Rumkowski actively cooperated with the German demands hoping to save the majority of the ghetto inmates.