RADEGAST Station - in memory of Holocaust

Radegast is a former train station in Łódź, Poland. During World War II, in the course of the Holocaust, the station, located at the time near the boundary of the Łódź Ghetto, was the place where Jewish and other inhabitants of Łódź 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 16 January 1942 to August 29, 1944. The station thus had the same significance for Łódź as the much better known Umschlagplatz had for Warsaw.
In 2004, the commemoration ceremonies on the sixtieth anniversary of the destruction of the Łódź 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.

RADOGOSZCZ Prison - National memory place

The greatest tragedy was the massacre of its prisoners and setting fire to the prison building during the night from 17 to 18 January, several dozen hours before the Soviet Army entered Łódź on 19 January 1945. At first, the prisoners were murdered in the prison rooms but when they put up resistance, the invaders set fire to the building. Around 1500 people were killed then, only about 30 survived