Łódź ghetto : location of Rumkowski's speeches

[@wladys678]

While in Łódź, don't forget to visit the Radogoszcz Museum of Martyrology and Struggle whereas in January 1945 Germans bestially murdered 1200 Poles locked in cells of the multistory redbrick prison. These were usually heads of families, fathers sentenced for smuggling food for their strarving families. Germans killed them by spilling gasoline and setting the building ablaze, those who manage to jump for rescue they machinegunned. Next day Germans were retreating in panic from advancing Soviets.

[@dano3952]

Why have they not erected a memorial monument in this area of the old ghetto? All I can see is a gravel space and graffiti. Hardly respect shown for the hallowed grounds of the last days of many victims of the Shoah.

[@AW-dt8ct]

This is still a ghetto. The worst parts of Łódź - full of criminal activities, alcoholism and drug abuse. There is huge graffiti on Pomorska Street "jak się powiesić, to tylko na Bałutach" that means "The only way to hang yourself is in Baluty". This speaks for itself.

[@HamDerDK]

Was at this place a week ago... and really thought about this video when reaserching where to go in Lodz.

[@VanlifewithAlan]

That is nice to read - and I was also in Łódź one week ago!

[@HamDerDK]

@@VanlifewithAlan cool... first time I was in Łódź... but I really liked the city. Lots of interesting places to see and really friendly people. Went to several of the places you talk about in your videos and a lot of them were located close to where we were staying...

[@rudebwoyben]

My grandmother was a survivor of the Lodz ghetto. I would like to visit Lodz and the area that constituted the ghetto at some time. The whole history of the ghetto, Chaim Rumkowski and Hans Biebow is both fascinating and tragic at the same time.

[@VanlifewithAlan]

Thanks for writing. I am in Łódź right now!

[@rudebwoyben]

I don't think I could handle winter in Lodz, I'm more likely to visit there in summer!

[@VanlifewithAlan]

rudebwoyben It is a bit cold now!

[@wladys678]

Also Polish Army units, allied with he Red Army were liberating Łódź in January 1945, which has been filmed, whereas cheering crowds filling main streets of Łódź welcomed Polish and Soviet soldiers hugging them, hurling flowers on tanks. Germans expected their defeat and comitted this hideous, cowardly crime as part of long range plan to physically eliminate Slavic nations.

[@derisleybrittain]

Superb footage 👍👍👍👍👍

[@liranklein1058]

hello, about this house. do you know if people still live the? i think this building was the house of my late grandfather.

[@VanlifewithAlan]

Liran that is very interesting. It certainly is still used. I am in Łódź right now. Do you have any photographs? How do you know your grandfather lived there?

[@liranklein1058]

beacause he told us the address. zachondia 14 lodz. can we speak on facebook?

[@VanlifewithAlan]

Yes, certainly. My facebook group is in the video description.

[@VanlifewithAlan]

I have filmed Radogoszcz - I will upload the film when I can!

[@ralphbernhard1757]

Hello Alan Are there any Poles still living here, or were they all deported by the Russians after the war?

[@VanlifewithAlan]

People are still living in this area! Houses in the former ghetto were reoccupied when the Nazis were thrown out of Łódź.

[@ralphbernhard1757]

I was a bit confused by your answer, until I looked at my map and realized I had mixed up Lodz and Lwow (as you know, now Ukrania, but part of Poland 1921-39) !! I'm going to watch your other videos soon. Greetings from Germany :-)

[@VanlifewithAlan]

Ralph Bernhard I admit I was rather surprised by the question! In Lwów there are some Poles but not many. There are more Poles living to the east of the 1939 border than to the west as the latter were deported after the war! You might be interested in seeing my history site on facebook : facebook.com/pages/Alan-Heaths-History-Page/173472422695696