Radegast Train

Radegast Station in the city of Łódź is now an important memorial that commemorates the fates of the people in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Originally built in 1937 as a freight depot, the station served during the Nazi era as the central hub for transporting raw materials and finished goods such as uniforms for the Wehrmacht. From 1941 on, it became a site of deportation, through which Jews from Western Europe and the surrounding region were first brought to the ghetto. In 1941 and 1942, thousands of people arrived here. Between January and August 1944, more than 150,000 Jews were deported from here to the extermination camps at Kulmhof (Chełmno) and Auschwitz, where most of them died. The station was closed in the 1970s and opened as a museum in 2005. Today, visitors walk a symbolic path through a long tunnel whose walls are lined with transport lists. Six large gravestones bearing the names of the extermination camps honor the victims. Next to the historic station building stands a faithful reproduction of a Deutsche Reichsbahn train with three freight cars. The museum itself displays documents listing the deported people. A monument in the form of a tower inscribed with "Thou shalt not kill" completes the memorial.