The Jewish Ghetto in Lodz Poland (Łódź Ghetto)

In this part of my travel series, I explore the past history of Lodz and find out the tragedies that happenned here. I couldn't even imagine what I was about to find out. I explore what is today the former Jewish ghetto or formally called the Lodz Ghetto and tell the story of what happenned here.

I visit the district were Jews and other ethnical groups were forced to live (under the Nazi regime), and the kind of fates that awaited them. I also visit the jewish cemetery (which is supposed to be the the biggest in the world).

The story is telling the history of what happenned during World War Two and what the aftermath looks like.

The video was filmed in October 2022. You will get an idea of what the ghetto looked like, and you will see Litzmannstadt Ghetto monument along with the cemetery. Litzmannstadt is also another name for the Lodz Ghetto.

The Nazis had many concentration camps built in parts of Europe and many of the victims shared the same fate in these ghettos and were ultimately sent to death camps. Many of the victims in Lodz were sent to Chelmno (Chełmno) and Auschwitz Birkenau with trains were mass murder took place. Chelmno is believed to be the first stationary death camp during world war 2 were gas was used to kill humans.

Sources say that around 145 000 humans from the Lodz Ghetto were murdered in the death camps. Many also died due to the conditions in the ghettos. Many died of starvation and abuse. Not many survived.

In the ghettos, the victims, were forced to make items like clothes and uniforms for the nazis. It was a working camp. And ultimately they were (most of them) sent to the death camps.

It is a dark and sad history. This is the story of the Lodz Ghetto. This is the story of the Holocaust.

For more sources on the events that took place and what data it is partially based on, I recommend the following web sites:

http://www.lodz-ghetto.com

https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/a...

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/conten...

Music in this video is from epidemicsound.com

On the site on where the Litzmannstadt ghetto monument is located you will learn more about the story of the victims, the holocaust and auschwitz birkenau along side other death camps.

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