Radegast Train Station

Radegast Train Station constructed initially in the vicinity of 1926 and 1937, is a little memorable railroad station in Lodz, Poland likewise alluded to as the stacking stage in Marysin, an area in the Baluty region of the city. Amid World War II the station was arranged just past the limit of the Lodz Ghetto – one of the greatest Jewish ghettos in German-involved Europe. Radegast was the fundamental railroad connection of the Ghetto to the outside world, utilized transcendently for the Holocaust transports sorted out by German Nazis. Throughout the Holocaust in Poland, the Umschlagplatz at the Radegast station was where transcendently Jewish tenants of Lodz including a huge number of expelees from crosswise over possessed Poland were assembled for expulsions straightforwardly to Chelmno Kulmhof and Auschwitz eradication camps.

Roughly 200,000 Polish, Austrian, German, Luxemburg and Czech Jews went through the station while in transit to their passings in the period from January 16, 1942, to August 29, 1944. The gathering point had an indistinguishable hugeness for Lodz from the better known Umschlagplatz had for the Warsaw Ghetto. In 2004, the remembrance functions on the sixtieth commemoration of the pulverization of the Lodz Ghetto in 1944 and the takeoff of the last transport from Radegast prodded endeavors to change the previous station into a Holocaust dedication.