Kinder KZ

Kinder KZ ("Polen-Jugendverwahrlager der Sicherheitspolizei in Litzmannstadt", "Prewencyjny Obóz Policji Bezpieczeństwa dla Młodzieży Polskiej w Łodzi") was a German concentration camp for Polish children in occupied Łodź (Litzmannstadt).

History

The camp was established In December 1942 inside Litzmannstadt Ghetto[1] on section bordered roughly by what is today Bracka, Emilii Plater, Gornicza and Zagajnikowa streets. The main gate of the camp was located on Przemyslowa Street (Gewerbestrasse).[2] Kinder KZ was run from 1941 to 1945. The prisoners were Polish children of deported Poles from all Polish provinces. Those among them found to be “racially valuable” were sent from here to the Reich for adoption and Germanisation. Between 12,000 and 13,000 children were forced into passing through the camp. The youngest ones were merely a few months or two years old only, while most of them were aged between 8 and 14.[3][4]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Traces of the Litzmannstadt Getto. A guide to the past", PIĄTEK TRZYNASTEGO, 2004, ISBN 8374150017
  2. ^ The camp for Polish children Przemystowa Street (Gewerbestrasse)
  3. ^ Erecting the Lodz Ghetto February 1940
  4. ^ Michael Hepp, Denn ihrer ward die Hölle. Kinder und Jugendliche im "Jugendverwahrlager Litzmannstadt" (For they lived through hell. Children and Adolescents in the “Litzmannstadt Camp taking custody of children and adolescents”), in: Mitteilungen der Dokumentationsstelle zur NS-Sozialpolitik (Announcements of the Documentation Agency on Nazi social policy), April 1986, copy 11/12, pp. 49-71