![SS personnel stand guard while Lodz ghetto police board Jews onto a deportation train bound for Chelmno or Auschwitz. [LCID: 30037]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/3dbfbe4c-746d-486e-96ab-20ce81d50710.jpeg)
Jewish prisoner Henryk Ross, who worked as an official photographer in the ghetto, secretly took this photo of Jews being deported from the Łódź ghetto to a killing center in summer 1944.
In summer 1944, Nazi German authorities liquidated the Łódź ghetto, destroying the ghetto’s infrastructure and murdering most of its remaining inhabitants at killing centers. In June–July, the Nazis sent about 7,000 Jews to the Chełmno killing center. Then, in August, they sent about 67,000 Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Łódź, Poland, between May and August 1944.
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