We stopped by the train station from which members of the Lodz Ghetto were transported to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau. We learned about the devastating of Chaim Rokovsky regarding the children and elderly of the Ghetto (he chose to deport the children to their deaths in order to save the majority population of the Ghetto). We entered the cattle cars and were chilled to the bone by the shadows of the past that surrounded us. It was eerie. We walked along the tracks down the memorial to the Lodz Ghetto, which organized the major events of the Ghetto's history. The exit was a chimney from a crematoria that had the words "lo tirtzach" written above it.
Cattle cars used to transport Jews of Lodz
A view into the cattle car
Views from Within the tunnel (the years record the events in the Ghetto's history)
Crematoria Chimeny Exit
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