Poland marks 68th anniversary of Litzmannstadt ghetto liquidation
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
29.08.2012 13:00
Prayers were said at the Jewish cemetery in Lodz, central Poland, Wednesday, on the 68th anniversary of the liquidation of the Litzmannstadt ghetto.
Litzmannstadt ghetto 1943: photo - Yad Vashem Institute
From the cemetery, participants took part in a March of Remembrance to the former Radegast train station, where Jews from many parts of Europe were brought by the Nazis between 1941 to 1944 before being deported to death camps.
The Litzmannstadt ghetto, created by the Nazis in February 1940, was the second largest, behind the Warsaw ghetto, in German occupied Poland.
70,000 prisoners were forced to work in over 100 plants in the industrial centre in the ghetto by the Nazis to manufacture supplies for the German army.
The ghetto survived till August 1944, when Jews, Roma and others who survived the terrible conditions in the ghetto were transported to death camps in Auschwitz and Chełmno. (pg)