Łódź in WW2 History | World War II Database

7 Sep 1939

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

Maximilian von Weichs inspecting troops during a victory parade, Łódź, Poland, 9 Sep 1939

2 Nov 1939

Poland

Joseph Goebbels visited Łódź, Poland. ww2dbase [Joseph Goebbels | Łódź | CPC]

30 Apr 1940

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

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

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

Germany established the Camp for the custody of Polish youth in Łódź (Polen-Jugendverwahrlager Litzmannstadt), Poland. ww2dbase [Łódź | CPC]

4 Mar 1944

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

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

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

Jewish ghettos at Łódź, Poland were evacuated by German authorities. ww2dbase [Łódź | CPC]

18 Jan 1945

Poland

German troops evacuated Kraków, Poland. Soviet troops reached Łódź, Poland. ww2dbase [Vistula-Oder Offensive | Łódź | TH]

19 Jan 1945

Poland

Red Army captured Kraków and Łódź, Poland and entered Ostpreußen (East Prussia), Germany from the south. ww2dbase [Vistula-Oder Offensive | Łódź | TH]

Timeline Section Founder: Thomas Houlihan
Contributors: Alan Chanter, C. Peter Chen, Thomas Houlihan, Hugh Martyr, David Stubblebine
Special Thanks: Rory Curtis

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