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at the end of October there could be no longer any doubts, for the
sounds of the oncoming front could be heard.
I do not remember much from my stay in this camp, but one
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event stuck in my memory. One day dr. Miller’s family were to be
taken out of the camp. I often played with his son Alanek, who
was younger than I, in the backyard garden. Alanek, probably sens-
ing intuitively that taking them meant their way to death, tried to
hide from the chasing German by running into the garden at the
back of the building. To this very day I can hear his terrible scream
followed by a shot. I was convinced that Alanek was killed then .
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On one of the last days of October, the entire camp at 36
Lagiewnicka St. was taken (?) to the wagons at the Radogoszcz rail-
way station (Radegast). I have no recollection how we got to the
station. According to numerous publications, we were taken there
by tram. But I did not record the tram in the ghetto in my memory
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at all, even though its route led along my way to work .

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Dr. Wiktor Miller, an internist, from May 1941 to August 1944 he was the head of
the Department of Health, belonged to the group of people trusted by the head of the
Gettoverwaltung, Hans Biebow, was also his personal doctor. In the ghetto he lived
with his wife Irena and son Alan (born in 1935).
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Dr. Miller’s family fate is not fully explained. Some - supposedly eyewitnesses - say
that H. Biebow personally took them to Chelmno on the Ner, where they were imme-
diately executed, others claim that dr. W. Miller was deported alone, and after 2 days his
wife and son were taken (the most common version). In vol. V of Kronika Getta
Łódzkiego - Litzmannstadt Getto 1941-1944 (Chronicles of the Lodz Ghetto - Litzmannstadt
Getto 1941-1944) on p. 319 a rather unreliable information can be found that dr. W.
Miller, together with his wife and son, were murdered by his patient one week after the
ghetto liquidation. The author of one of the first comprehensive monographs of the
Lodz ghetto, Icchak Rubin, mentions in turn, that Miller was deported and killed, prob-
ably at the Jewish cemetery – Żydzi w Łodzi pod niemiecką okupacją 1939-1945 (Jews in Lodz
under German Occupation 1939-1945, London 1988).
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Trams in the Lodz ghetto ran from the turn of 1941/1942, initially from the intersec-
tion of Brzezinska with Marysinska and Jagiellonska streets to the Radegast station, as
freight, and from June 2nd, 1942 as passenger transportation on the Balucki Market-
Marysin route – Kronika Getta Łódzkiego. Litzmannstadt getto 1941-1944 (Chronicles of the Lodz
Ghetto. Litzmannstadt Getto 1941-1944, Lodz 2009, vol. V, p. 354).

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