Deportation from the Łódź ghetto to the Chełmno killing center

Jews from Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, and Czechoslovakia during deportation from the Łódź ghetto to the Chełmno killing center. Łódź, Poland, 1942.

In October–November 1941, Nazi German officials deported almost 20,000 Jews from Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, and the Czech lands to the Łódź ghetto. Their arrival compounded the already grim conditions in the ghetto. Transports of Jews from the ghetto to the Chełmno killing center began on January 16, 1942. At first, this group of Jews was spared. But in May 1942, the Nazi German authorities also targeted this group of Jews for transport to Chełmno.