Radegast train station
Radogoszcz stationJews from the Łódź Ghetto to the extermination camps during Operation Reinhard. The "loading platform" is in Marysin, a neighbourhood in the city's Bałuty district.[1]
The Holocaust
During
extermination camps.[2] Approximately 200,000 Polish, Austrian, German, Luxemburg and Czech Jews, and many Roma, Sinti and Lalleri passed through the station on the way to their deaths in the period from January 16, 1942, to August 29, 1944.[5] The collection point had the same significance for Łódź as the better known Umschlagplatz had for the Warsaw Ghetto
.
Memorial
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.[6] On August 28, 2005, a monument commemorating the Jewish victims who passed through the station was unveiled, based on design by Czesław Bielecki, and featuring the 140-metre (460 ft) Tunnel of the Deported.[7] The renovated station building serves as one of the divisions of the Łódź Museum of Independence.[4]
References
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- ^ a b Michal Latosinski (2013). "The Radogoszcz (Radegast) Station, or the loading platform at Marysin". The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, July 11, 1942, Vol. 2 by Lucjan Dobroszycki. Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ ISBN 0300039247. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-674-02799-2.
- ^ a b "Historia Stacji Radegast". Muzeum Tradycji Niepodległościowych w Łodzi. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ^ "Memorial Radegast station". Centrum Dialogu im. Marka Edelmana w Łodzi. 2013. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
- ISBN 978-1-74104-479-9.
- ^ "Stacja Radegast Litzmanntastadt Getto 1940-1944". Muzeum Tradycji Niepodległościowych w Łodzi. 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.