In 1968, the history of the camp was revived when the Communists unleashed an anti-Semitic campaign in Poland. In the early 1960s, along with the construction of a housing development, its borders were effaced. Stefan Marczewski, born in Łódź in 1930, entered the camp at age 14.Īfter the end of World War II, the memory of the German labour camp for Polish children on Przemysłowa Street in Łódź – situated within the Litzmannstadt Ghetto – began to fade and almost all of its remnants were destroyed. The longer we stayed there, the tougher the discipline became, and the clearer it became that everything was aimed at harrowing us, at tormenting us”. “At first, we didn’t realise what kind of camp it was and what conditions would prevail, because we hadn’t known such conditions.
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