8 Kolobrzeska, Bydgoszcz, Poland
The Radegast train station (Polish: Stacja Radegast) is a historic railway building from 1941. During World War II, it was associated with the ghetto established by the Germans in 1940 in Łódź. Initially, the building served as a reloading point for food and raw materials, intended for the population and workplaces of the ghetto. From January 1942, the station became the place from which Jews were transported to the Kulmhof extermination camps in Chełmno on the Ner and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Today, the building is a memorial site, an element of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto Holocaust Monument, established in 2004, and the seat of a branch of the Museum of Independence Traditions in Łódź. The exposition in the station building presents a model of the Lizmannstadt Ghetto. It is the largest model of this type in Poland, showing the appearance of the district closed in 1942. Apart from the model, there are also reproductions of the deportation lists of the ghetto inhabitants. A Tunnel of Remembrance was built near the station, which with its minimalist form reflects the feeling of being overwhelmed by the occupation and the increasingly difficult history of Jews in Łódź. The tunnel is crowned with the Memorial Column with the words "Do not kill" in German, Hebrew and Polish.
