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In the autumn of 1941, before the plan of the “Final Solution of the Jewish
Question” crystallized, resettlement of people to the ghetto had begun. The
authorities in Berlin decided to resettle the Jews staying in the Old Reich to
the occupied territories, including the Łódź ghetto. In October, a group of
twenty thousand Jews from the Reich and the Protectorate, and five thousand
Roma from Eastern Austria were resettled to the ghetto. The displaced people
were unaware of the purpose of their journey. For many of them, their initial
contact with the ghetto was a shock. There was a large number of Catholics
and Protestants recognized as Jews based on the Nuremberg racial laws. Their
arrival was one of the most important moments in the history of the ghetto.
The displaced persons from the West, almost completely ill-adapted to the
conditions of the ghetto, not knowing the language and taken away from their
life, were placed in the so-called “collectives” – places of collective residence.
In the photo: a group of German Jews at Radegast Station.

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