[PL] Lodz to nie tylko brudne, pofabryczne
miasto. To miejsce, ktore posrod szarych budynkow ma istne skarby.
Zapraszam na wyprawe po wcale nie takiej smutnej Lodzi.
Radegast – nieczynny juz przystanek kolejowy Lódz
Radogoszcz przy alei Pamieci Ofiar Ghetta Litzmannstadt, zbudowany
w okresie II wojny swiatowej dla potrzeb lódzkiego getta, z którego
Niemcy hitlerowskie wywozily do obozu Auschwitz-Birkenau obywateli
narodowosci zydowskiej.
Od 2005 roku, w budynku przystanku znajduje sie muzeum. Pomnik
upamietniajacy martyrologie Zydów odslonieto w tym miejscu 28
sierpnia 2005 roku.
Pamietaj: Wez olowek!
[EN] Lodz is not just a dirty, industrial city.
This place, packed with grey buildings, possesses some veritable
treasures. I invite you on a trip to not-very-sad-and-grey-city
Lodz.
Radegast (Polish: Radogoszcz) is a former railway station in
Lódz, Poland. It was built during World War II just beyond the
boundary of the Lódz Ghetto to serve as its main transport link to
the outside world. In the course of the Holocaust, the station was
the place where Jewish and other inhabitants of Lodz were gathered
for transport out of the Ghetto and the city to the Kulmhof and
Auschwitz death camps. About 150,000 Jews passed through the
station on the way to their deaths in the period from January 16,
1942, to August 29, 1944. The station thus had the same
significance for Lodz as the better known Umschlagplatz had for
Warsaw.
In 2004, the commemoration ceremonies on the sixtieth anniversary
of the destruction of the Lódz Ghetto in 1944 and the departure of
the last transport from Radegast spurred efforts to transform the
former station into a Holocaust memorial. In 2005 a museum located
in the station building was opened. On August 28, 2005, a monument
commemorating the Jewish victims who passed through the station was
unveiled.
Note: Please take a pencil with you!