Daily LIFT #628
- Michael Laxer
- Jan 19, 2022
- 1 min read
Red Army liberates the Polish city of Lodz, January 19, 1945 -- Daily LIFT #628
When the Red Army liberated the city they also liberated the Lodz ghetto to which the city's Jewish population had been confined by the Nazis. Of the ghetto's one time population of over 220,000, when the Red Army arrived only approximately 900 remained alive. A few thousand others survived the war in other locations.
You Tube has full video of Russians liberating Lodz on Jan. 19. 1945, eight days before Auschwitz, your neighborhood extermination camp. My parents were 2 of the 818 clean up crew survivors. Days before liberation the Nazis had the 800+ dig their graves outside the Old Jewish Cemetery.
Time was running out.
Nazis ran a day before the tanks rolled. Long Live Free Poland.