# Łódź Ghetto <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Also known as</td><td>Litzmannstadt Ghetto (German)</td></tr> <tr><td>Location</td><td>Bałuty / Old Town district, Łódź, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51°47′N 19°28′E</td></tr> </table> ## Overview The Łódź Ghetto (German: *Litzmannstadt Ghetto*, after the Nazi renaming of Łódź) was established by German authorities in the northeastern Bałuty and Old Town districts of Łódź in early February 1940 and sealed on 30 April 1940 with about 164,000 Jews inside. It was the second-largest ghetto in German-occupied Europe after Warsaw and, under Chaim Rumkowski's *Judenrat*, was run as a vast forced-labour workshop, which prolonged its existence longer than any other major ghetto. Mass deportations to the Chełmno killing centre began in January 1942; by autumn 1942 over 70,000 residents deemed "unproductive" had been murdered. After a lull, deportations resumed in mid-1944, and in August 1944 almost all surviving inhabitants were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau; the last transport left on 30 August 1944. Roughly 210,000 Jews passed through the ghetto; only about 800 remained hidden when the Red Army entered on 19 January 1945. The site today is marked by memorials, the preserved Radegast station, and the Jewish cemetery. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Łódź Ghetto; USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia — Łódź; Yad Vashem — The Lodz Ghetto, Historical Background.</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Szmul Balter (b.1874)]] | Died 07/14/1940 | | [[Genendel Spitz (b.1912)]] | Died ~1941 | | [[Brajna (b.1878)]] | Died 04/21/1941 | | [[Chaim Winer (b.1865)]] | Died 09/08/1941 | | [[Chaja Cyrla Wajnrajch (b.1928)]] | Died 09/08/1941 | | [[Szajndla Barbanel (b.1920)]] | Died 02/17/1942 | | [[Chaim Sumer Wajnrajch (b.1914)]] | Died 02/15/1943 | | [[Sura Gitla Balter (b.1881)]] | Died 03/12/1943 |