Dzierżązna, Łódź Voivodeship

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Dzierżązna
Village
Dzierżązna
Coordinates: 51°55′N 19°25′E / 51.917°N 19.417°E / 51.917; 19.417
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Łódź
County	Zgierz
Gmina	Gmina Zgierz

Dzierżązna [d͡ʑerˈʐɔ̃zna] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zgierz, within Zgierz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of Zgierz and 16 km (10 mi) north of the regional capital Łódź.^[1]

World War II

Roll-call for boys at the main children's concentration camp in Łódź to which KZ Dzierżązna belonged as a sub-camp

Before the Nazi German invasion of Poland in 1939, Dzierżązna was the location of a large estate owned by two lawyers from Łódź, with a spacious manor house built by one of them. Poles were evicted within months and the property taken over by a Volksdeutsch Alfred Krinke from Selbstschutz. In 1942 the manor house was appropriated by the German police, who established a concentration camp there, for Polish children 8–16 years of age.^[2]^[3]

The children's camp, which was a sub-camp of the main children's camp in Łódź, named in German: Polen-Jugendverwahrlager der Sicherheitspolizei in Litzmannstadt, operated from January 1943 till January 1945. The adjacent fields were cultivated by the children to supply produce for the main concentration camp in the city. Polish girls were prepared in Dzierżązna for slave labour on German farms in the Reich, under the command of SS Aufseherin Sydomia Bayer. She is known to have killed one of the little girls named Urszula Kaczmarek, by flogging her to death in front of other children. The camp and sub-camp were the only complex of its kind established in occupied Poland. Other similar camps existed only in Croatia.^[4]

References

↑ "Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal)" (in Polish). 2008-06-01.
↑ Staff writer (2013). "Dorobek „ich ojców” – niemiecki obóz dla polskich dzieci". Salon24. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
↑ Staff writer (2013). "Polen-Jugendverwahrlager in Litzmannstadt". Salon24. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
↑ Joanna Leszczyńska (2012-12-16). "Obóz dla dzieci przy ul. Przemysłowej nie był obozem wychowawczym". Dziennik Łódzki. Retrieved 1 October 2013.

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Seat	Zgierz (not part of the gmina)

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Coordinates: 51°55′N 19°25′E / 51.917°N 19.417°E / 51.917; 19.417

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