In World War II and a few months after being conquered by the German Wehrmacht in September 1939,\u00a0 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a was re-named to “Litzmannstadt” and became was a center of the German poplulation politics and policy of extermination in Poland. The settlement of Germans in the to be \u201cgermanized\u201d Warthegau was initiated and orchestrated here. Under this policy, thousends of the local and regional Polish Jews were forced to move to the installed city\u2019s ghetto that had at first been installed to be temporary, but in the end existed for more than 4 years (until August 1944\/January 1945), longer than most other ghettos.onzentriert, das zun\u00e4chst nur vor\u00fcbergehend bestehen sollte, letztlich aber \u00fcber vier Jahre bestand.<\/p>\n
The second largeste ghetto – following the one in Warsaw: detained were approx. 160,000 Jewish people from \u0141\u00f3d\u017a and surrounding areas. Further 20,000 Jews from Berlin, Prague, Vienna and other Western cities were deported here as well as 5,000 Sinti and Roma from the Burgenland.<\/p>\n
In this period, approx. 46,000 inhabitants of the ghetto died in this systematically undersupplied ghetto, from hunger, disease, violence.<\/p>\n
During the ghetto\u2018s existence and up until its liquidation, inhabitants were deported to Auschwitz or to Che\u0142mno\/Kulmhof, the latter being a camp designed solely for extermination and death by
\ngassing. By August 1944 of those approx. altogether 185,000 ghetto inhabitants about 800 to 900 people were left in the ghetto as “Aufr\u00e4umkommando” (commando to clear up) until they were finally freed by the Soviet army in January 1945.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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