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Transport from Lodz, Ghetto, Poland to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 12/08/1944

Transport
Departure Date 12/08/1944
Lodz,Ghetto,Poland
Central Prison on Czarnieckiego 16, Lodz ghetto
Assembly site on 3 Krawiecka Street, Lodz ghetto
Kościelny Square, Łódź ghetto
Marched by foot
Tram
Radegast railway station
Freight Train
Auschwitz Birkenau,Extermination Camp,Poland
On August 1, 1944 there were some 68,516 Jews in the Łódź ghetto (40,023 women, 28,493 men, and 4,635 children) – a fraction of the number of Jewish inhabitants at the start of war. By the end of the month, most of these people will have been deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered. It is difficult to pinpoint the transport dates for this final phase of deportations from the Łódź ghetto; probably they continued into September. Nazi Germany’s looming defeat and the chaos that prevailed in the ghetto during the final months of its existence played havoc with the keeping of records by the German and Jewish administrations alike, in terms of both quantity and content. The Judenrat’s statistical department kept records until August 21. The deportations on August 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 13, in which 12,400 people were transported, were listed only retroactively, in the records of August 14 and from August 18-21. However, our research indicates that the first two transports left the ghetto as early as August 4 and 5, and that there was a transport also on August 12. ...
Jacob Rosenberg - deported from the Łódź ghetto to Auschwitz on 12/08/1944