Radomsko ghetto : ul. Rolna

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This film shows part of the Radomsko ghetto as it was established in December 1939 including parts of the streets, Mickiewicza, Josielewicza, Fabaniego, Rolna and Wyszynskiego.

Radomsko was captured by the Fourth Panzer Division on Sunday, 3 September 1939. Whilst under military rule, the Jewish population was subjected to brutal treatment including the murder of some people.

On 31 October 1939, Radomsko became the second place where Jews had to wear compulsory markings (after Włocławek). The marking was initially only for men and denoted how many days slave labour were required.

On 20 December 1939, Radomsko became the second city in Poland to have a ghetto established - following nearby Piotrków Trybunalski. The ghetto incorporated the following streets in the city centre : Rolna, Stodolna, Joselwicza, Strzalkowska, Fabianiego, and Mickiewicza. (See film from the Radomsko ghetto).

The Jewish population of Radomsko was about 10,000 in 1939. People were also brought to the ghetto from Łódź, Ozorkow and Zdunska Wola as well as outlying villages such as Amstow, Plawno, Gidziel, Kamiensk, Kodran, Mojslawice, Strzalkow, and Klomnice. Overcrowding was such that around ten people were living in one room. There were two major typhus epidemics in 1940 and 1942.

On 9 October 1942, the ghetto was sealed and the population gathered at a sports field. Some 350 people were granted a reprieve, the remainder were sent to Treblinka. Two transports left on 10 and 12 October 1942, taking 12,000 - 14,000 people to the gas chambers.

A couple of weeks later the Nazis announced that they would create four Jewish towns Ujazd, Sandomierz, Szydlowiec and Radomsko. People returned from the countryside knowing they could not survive the winter. On 6 January 1943 this ghetto was also liquidated with people being sent to Treblinka or the Skarzysko-Kamienna armaments plant for slave labour.

Other Jews rounded up later were shot in the Jewish cemetary or deported to the Płonki slave labour camp. By July 1943 there were no Jews left in Radomsko.

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[ParadoxGui]

An englishman/english-speaking-ma­n in my home town?

Well why would you visit such a town?

I mean yeah, the ghetto, but meh.

[alanheath]

@ParadoxGui Poznałem kobietę z Radomska!

[michael112254]

I was watching a video on soccer hooliganism in western Poland. Many of these hooligans are neo-Nazis or sympathetic to Nazism. They expressed their admiration to Hitler and the SS. I find this astonishing, especially that this takes place in Poland. I would imagine that Poland would be the last place on earth that the ideas of Nazism or Communism (both being similar ideologies) would find any audience. Any return to such a government in Germany would mean Poland would be in grave danger.

[alanheath]

@michael112254 I do not think there is any danger of the Nazis taking power in Germany and as for a few soccer hooligans saying they support Hitler, one they are very small amount of the population and two they will grow out of it when the brain appears!

[michael112254]

@alanheath You may be right. I believe that these difficult times are presenting extremists a chance to be heard. Over here we are seeing increased polarization of our politics. We cannot solve our problems due to a lack of common ground. Also our educational system does not teach history to our young people in any meaningful way. That makes many of them receptive to radical ideologies. I suspect that this seems to the case in Poland where the young do not understand their history.