1 February 1928 | A Polish girl, Maria Matlak, was born in Łodygowice. In #Auschwitz from 2 April 1943. No. 39847 She was transferred to the camp for Polish minors in Litzmannstadt. She was liberated there on 19 January 1945. - ThreadSky

auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social • 27 days ago

1 February 1928 | A Polish girl, Maria Matlak, was born in Łodygowice.

In #Auschwitz from 2 April 1943.
No. 39847
She was transferred to the camp for Polish minors in Litzmannstadt. She was liberated there on 19 January 1945.

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rudigeerts.bsky.social•27 days ago

December 1st, 1942 - Kinder-KZ Litzmannstadt, a Nazi German concentration camp for Polish children, opened in Łodź.
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Kinder-KZ Litzmannstadt was a Nazi German facility in the city Łódź (Poland), one of the concentration camps for Polish children and youth established

rudigeerts.bsky.social•27 days ago

2/n in occupied Poland during World War II. The camp was established on December 1st 1942 and was running up to the year 1945. By January 1945, an estimated 1,600 Polish children went through this camp alone. The exact number of inmates is difficult to establish

rudigeerts.bsky.social•27 days ago

3/n because many of the records were destroyed before the German authorities abandoned the city. At the moment of the liberation of Łódź at the end of the war, there were still about 900 child prisoners in the camp.

rudigeerts.bsky.social•27 days ago

4/n The Polish children in this camp were completely isolated from the outside world and had no contact with the people from the other side of the high fence wall that was surrounding the area. They worked just as their peers did in the neighbouring ghetto.

rudigeerts.bsky.social•27 days ago

5/n They even had the same teachers - the Jewish artisans, escorted there by the Nazi authorities. The children stitched clothes, made straw shoes, mended knapsacks and straightened out needles. Many of them died of starvation, cold and emaciation,

rudigeerts.bsky.social•27 days ago

6/n especially during the typhus epidemic that broke out in late 1942 and early 1943. Surviving records document 136 deaths. Germans kept an eye out for children with “Nordic characteristics”. Thousands of Polish children were kidnapped and taken into a special Germanisation