![]() Because of its remarkable productivity, the ghetto managed to survive until August 1944. On 30 April 1940, when the gates closed on the ghetto, it housed 163,777 residents. The number of people incarcerated in it was increased further by the Jews deported from Nazi-controlled territories. ![]() Situated in the city of Łódź, and originally intended as a preliminary step upon a more extensive plan of creating the Judenfrei province of Warthegau, the ghetto was transformed into a major industrial centre, manufacturing war supplies for Nazi Germany and especially for the Wehrmacht. It was the second-largest ghetto in all of German-occupied Europe after the Warsaw Ghetto. 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. ![]() The Jewish cemetery is at 16 Radegast train station at the top right at 17 Kinder KZ for Polish children is at 15. The walled-off area is shown in blue in the inset. ![]()
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