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Victims. 210,000 Polish Jews. The Łódź Ghetto or Litzmannstadt Ghetto (after the Nazi German name for Łódź) was a Nazi ghetto established by the German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma following the Invasion of Poland. It was the second-largest ghetto in all of German-occupied Europe after the Warsaw Ghetto.
The ghetto in Lodz, Poland’s second largest city and major industrial center, was established on April 30, 1940. It was the second largest ghetto in the German-occupied areas and the one that was most severely insulated from its surroundings and from other ghettos.
Aug 9, 2021 · Lodz ghetto. The German army occupied Lodz, Poland, in September 1939. From early February 1940, Jews in Lodz were forced to move to a designated ghetto area, which was sealed on April 30, 1940. This German footage illustrates conditions during winter in the Lodz ghetto.
Between January and September 1942, over 75,000 ghetto residents were deported from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center. By the spring of 1944, the Lodz ghetto was the last remaining in German-occupied Poland. During that summer, the Germans deported the remaining Jews, most of them to Auschwitz.
Within days of Lodz's occupation, the Jews of the city became targets for beatings, robberies, and seizure of property. Six days after the occupation of Lodz, on September 14, 1939, was Rosh Hashanah, one of the holiest days within the Jewish religion.
The Lodz ghetto is an example of a particularly isolated large ghetto, strictly guarded and segregated from its surroundings. This ghetto was built in a neglected part of the city so as to ensure the seclusion and isolation of the Jewish population within.
The Łódź ghetto measured over four square kilometres. It covered the Old Town, Bałuty and Marysin, mostly – poor and neglected parts of the city. The ghetto was surrounded by a wooden fence and barbed wire. Every 50–100 metres Schupo German Police posts were set up. Buildings near the ghetto boundary were demolished.
