Obóz cygański w getcie łódzkim (1941–1942)
Gypsy camp in the Łódź ghetto (1941–1942)
Author(s): Andrzej GrzegorczykSubject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Studies in violence and power, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów & IFiS PAN
Keywords: Łódź ghetto; Gypsy Camp; Porajmos; the Roma and Sinti; Chełmno nad Nerem;
Summary/Abstract: During 5‒9 November 1941 5,000 Roma and Sinti were deported to the Gypsy camp established in an area portioned out from the Łódź ghetto. The conditions in the hastily organized camp, which consisted of only about a dozen buildings, were horrible. Due to the lack of lavatories and the horrific living conditions approx. 600 people died of a typhus epidemic over the course of the first weeks of the camp’s existence. The rest of the ghetto residents were deported in December 1941 or January 1942 to the Chełmno nad Nerem extermination center, where they were killed. This article is devoted to the history of that camp, particularly the process of its liquidation, which has constituted the least researched thread of the history of the Gypsy camp in the Łódź ghetto.
Journal: Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 17
- Page Range: 463-485
- Page Count: 23
- Language: Polish