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2010-08-30

66th anniversary of the liquidation of Litzmannstadt Ghetto in Lodz

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 Prayers in the Jewish Cemetery and ceremonies on the Radegast Station, from where the Jews were deported to the extermination camps, commemorated the 66th anniversary of the dissolution of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto in Lodz. Many people took part in the ceremonies: the survivors from the ghetto in Lodz, their families, city authorities, plenipotentiaries of the Embassy of Israel in Poland, Symcha Keller, the chairman of the Jewish community in Łódź and Jerzy Kropiwnicki, the former mayor of Lodz.

All participants of the ceremonies had said their prayers in the cemetery and after that they went to the Radegast Bahnhof Memorial. It is a place that commemorates a railway station, which was the last station for circa 38 000 Jews and 5 000 Romanies deported to the ghetto in Łódź from 1941 to 1942.

In the second half of 1942, 70 000 Jews were sent from this very station to the death camp at Kulmhof am Ner (Chełmno-Upon-Ner). In August 1944, 80 000 Jews were deported from there to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Later 6 transports were sent to certain camps: Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, Gross Rosen and Stutthof.

Litzmannstadt Monument is composed of the building of the station, with a museum and the Tunnel of the Deported (140 metres), which symbolizes the inevitable fate of deported Jews. Moreover, there is so called Town of Halls at the very end of the Tunnel, where we can find all towns, from where Jews were deported. The Column of Remembrance is also worth mentioning. There is a burning candle inside it.

Source: PAP
 

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