Tablice Radegast

A 140 metre tunnel lined with transport lists, set out in the order the trains left, runs alongside the restored wooden station building on its original track. Radegast opened in the late 1930s as a small freight stop in Marysin, on the northern edge of what became the Łódź ghetto. In 1941 and 1942 close to 38,000 Jews from across German-occupied Europe, along with some 5,000 Roma, arrived here before being confined in the ghetto; from 1942 the station became the ghetto's Umschlagplatz, and more than 91,000 people were sent onward from it to the Chełmno extermination camp. The memorial, designed by architect Czesław Bielecki, was unveiled on 28 August 2005, and the station now forms a branch of the Museum of Independence Traditions in Łódź.