Soviets Liberate Lodz: Only 900 of 200,000 Jews Survive
Soviet troops liberated the Lodz ghetto and found fewer than 900 survivors from a population that had once numbered over 200,000 Jewish residents. The Nazis had systematically deported the inhabitants to Chelmno and Auschwitz extermination camps over the preceding three years. The staggering disparity between the original population and the handful of survivors stands as one of the most devastating statistics of the Holocaust.
January 19, 1945
81 years ago
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