Jews from the Lodz ghetto board deportation trains for the Chelmno death camp
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Date
1942-1944
Description
The first deportations from the Lodz ghetto were to labor camps in the Poznan area. These commenced in December 1940 and continued until June 1942. Deportation to death camps began in December 1941, with the transport of Roma to Chelmno. This was followed by a steady flow of Jewish transports from January through May 1942, in which 55,000 were taken to Chelmno. After a four-month hiatus, deportations resumed on September 1 with the evacuation of the ghetto hospital. This was followed by the eight day Sperre (or Gehsperre) action (September 5-12) of the ill, the elderly, and children under ten years of age. 572 Jews were murdered and 15,000 deported to Chelmno, during this action. There were no further deportations to death camps from Lodz for the next one and a half years. In the spring of 1944, the Nazis reactivated the dormant killing center in Chelmno in preparation for the ghetto's liquidation. From June 23 to July 15, 1944, 7,000 Jews were deported there.
Type
Photograph
Region
Global
Era
The Great Depression and WW II
Topic
Genocide, Jewish History, Transportation, World War II
Repository
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa27537
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