Radegast Railroad Memorial Station where 200,000 Jews were railroaded to Auschwitz and other death camps. Lodz Central Poland
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5416 x 3611 px | 45.9 x 30.6 cm | 18.1 x 12 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
19 September 2006Location:
Lodz Central PolandMore information:
RADEGAST TRAIN STATION (Adapted from Wikipedia) The Radogoszcz station (German: Bahnhof Radegast) built between 1926 and 1937, is a small historic railway station in Łódź, Poland. During World War II the station was situated just beyond the Łódź Ghetto – one of the biggest Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe. Radegast was the main railway link of the Ghetto to the outside world, used predominantly for the Holocaust transports organized by German Nazis. In the course of the Holocaust in Poland, the Umschlagplatz at the Radegast station was the place where predominantly Jewish inhabitants of Łódź including thousands of expelees from across occupied Poland were gathered for deportations directly to Chełmno (Kulmhof) and Auschwitz extermination camps. Approximately 200, 000 Polish, Austrian, German, Luxemburg and Czech Jews passed through the station on the way to their deaths from January 16, 1942, to August 29, 1944. The collection point had the same significance for Łódź as the better known Umschlagplatz had for the Warsaw Ghetto. In 2004, the commemoration ceremonies on the sixtieth anniversary of the destruction of the Łódź Ghetto in 1944 and the departure of the last transport from Radegast spurred efforts to transform the former station into a Holocaust memorial. On August 28, 2005, a monument commemorating the Jewish victims who passed through the station was unveiled. Adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radegast_train_station Łódź is the third-largest city in Poland. Located in the central part of the country, it had a population of 742, 387 in December 2009 and is approximately 135 kilometres (84 mi) south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canting: depicting a boat, it alludes to the city's name which translates literally as "boat." The city is most known for it's textile enterprise which is now defunct. Adapted from - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Łódź