7 Sep 1939
Poland
Poland
- The city of Łódź, Poland was captured by the German 8th Army after the Łódź Army failed to halt their advance. ww2dbase [Invasion of Poland | Łódź | AC]
9 Sep 1939
Photo(s) dated 9 Sep 1939
Photo(s) dated 9 Sep 1939
30 Apr 1940
Poland
Poland
- The first guarded Jewish ghetto was established at Łódź, Poland; it was later sealed off with 230,000 Jews inside. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Łódź | CPC]
28 Nov 1940
Poland
Poland
- German Reserve Police Battalion 101 was deployed to the Łódź ghetto and was given orders to shoot anyone who came too close to the fence. ww2dbase [Łódź | CPC]
23 Oct 1941
Poland
Poland
- 2,014 German Jews originally from Cologne, Germany arrived at the Łódź Ghetto in Poland. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Łódź | CPC]
1 Dec 1942
Poland
Poland
- Germany established the Camp for the custody of Polish youth in Łódź (Polen-Jugendverwahrlager Litzmannstadt), Poland. ww2dbase [Łódź | CPC]
4 Mar 1944
Poland
Poland
- 750 Jews from the Łódź ghetto were sent to the Hugo Schneider AG factories in Czestochowa, Poland as forced laborers. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Łódź | CPC]
6 May 1944
Poland
Poland
- Younger workers in the Łódź ghetto in Poland began a hunger strike in protest of the watery soup that made up the bulk of their daily food intake. ww2dbase [Łódź | CPC]
6 Aug 1944
Poland
Poland
- Łódź, the last Jewish ghetto in Poland, was liquidated; its 60,000 residences were sent to Auschwitz Concentration Camp. 27,000 prisoners of various concentration camps east of the Vistula River in Poland were transferred to camps to the west. The evacuation of Kaiserwald Concentration Camp outside of Riga, Latvia began. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Łódź | CPC]
5 Sep 1944
Poland
Poland
- Jewish ghettos at Łódź, Poland were evacuated by German authorities. ww2dbase [Łódź | CPC]
18 Jan 1945
Poland
Poland
- German troops evacuated Kraków, Poland. Soviet troops reached Łódź, Poland. ww2dbase [Vistula-Oder Offensive | Łódź | TH]
19 Jan 1945
Poland
Poland
- Red Army captured Kraków and Łódź, Poland and entered Ostpreußen (East Prussia), Germany from the south. ww2dbase [Vistula-Oder Offensive | Łódź | TH]
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