66th Anniversary of the dissolution of the Litzmannstadt Getto in Łódź
Prayers in the Jewish Cemetery and celebrations in the Redegast Memorial, the former railway station from which Jews were transported to death camps, commemorated on Sunday the 66th Anniversary of the dissolution of the Litzmannstadt Getto in Łódź. The celebrations were attended by people who survived the imprisonment in the Łódź ghetto, their families, city authorities, representatives of the Israeli Embassy in
Following the prayers in the cemetery the attendees went on to the Radegast Memorial. The site commemorates the railway station which, in 1941-1942, was the last station for about 38,000 Jews and 5,000 Gypsies deported to the ghetto of Łódź.
In the second half of 1942, 70,000 Jews were sent to the death camp in Chełmno on the river Ner (Kulmhof am Ner). In August 1944, 80,000 Jews were taken from the camp and deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Later, some of the train transports were sent to other concentration camps, including Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, Gross Rosen and Stutthof.
The Litzmannstadt Getto Holocaust Memorial (Pomnik Zagłady Litzmannstadt Getto) is an installation composed of the station building, which now houses a museum and of a 140-meter Tunnel of the Deported (Tunel Deportowanych), which symbolizes the inevitability of the fate of the deported Jews. Moreover, the so-called Holl Miast (The Hall of the Cities) is situated at the end of the tunnel and it shows all the cities from which Jews were brought to the ghetto. Another important element is the Memory Column with a candle burning inside.
Source: Polish Press Agency
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