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The confined district of Litzmannstadt survived until the summer of 1944 with
approximately 72,000 inhabitants. It was the last large Jewish population in the
occupied Poland. All the other ghettoes were liquidated in 1942 and 1943. The
liquidation of the Łódź ghetto began on June 23, 1944. The first transports were
dispatched to Chełmno nad Nerem; after a short break they resumed and were
sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The last transport was dispatched from Radegast sta-
tion on August 29, 1944.
Over 43,000 people died of hunger and emaciation in the ghetto. Their graves
are located at the Jewish cemetery in the Bałuty district. Approximately 150,000
people lost their lives in Chełmno, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps. Out of
the several thousand survivors of the Łódź ghetto only a few are still alive. Almost
600 survivors have their trees of rememberance in the Survivors' Park in Łódź.

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