Route of death from Radomsko ghetto

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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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[llewesa100]

Excellent stereo on the sountrack; I have had traffic travelling in both directions across my lounge for 10 minutes!!

[alanheath]

@llewesa100 I am really pleased to read that. I had no idea my films were in stereo!

[bassbiff]

Thank you for posting this. It has some very interesting footage and commentary.

[alanheath]

@bassbiff Thank you! I have much more material related to the Holocaust.

[10CPhil]

Hideous to think that they starved their own soldiers to complete their atrocities & deportation of the Jews. Can't help thinking that there was some kind of frenzied urgency to achieve their "goals" as if they knew they were on borrowed time. Many thanks for these valuable videos.

[alanheath]

@10CPhil And I think there is where we find the whole Nazi motivation for the war. German lives did not matter as long as Jewish lives were being taken.

[merseywhogirl]

@merseywhogirl Oh yes,I understand... I realize that Lanzmann's film was made 30 years ago (although released in the 80s). I hope the Polish citizens of this and other cities and towns accept or at the very least understand their role in the holocaust. As you know better than I, many were virulently anti semetic and were 'happy' to see their towns and cities made judenfrei. I suppose during the decades under communist rule their history during that period was suppressed.

[alanheath]

@merseywhogirl Lanzmann had an agenda to show Poles as anti Semites. Furthermore as someone who understands both Polish and French, mistakes in the French translation from Polish were left. Nonetheless I understand the characters he interviewed near Treblinka were actually anti Semitic.

The reputation Poles have as being anti Semitic is not true today despite some idiots on the extreme right in this country who do what they can to give Poland a bad name.