Jews from the Lodz ghetto who resisted deportation on Ljubna Street in Lodz, Poland, were massacred in the streets without prior warning by Jewish and German police and the Gestapo.

　　Jews from Lodz (Łódź) Ghetto who resisted deportation on Ljubna Street in Lodz, Poland, were massacred in the streets by Jewish and German police and the Gestapo. On Ljubna Street in Łódź Ghetto, the Jewish Ghetto police forcibly removed people from their apartments for deportation from September 5 to September 12, 1942; from September 7, the German police and Gestapo fired without prior warning and killed on the street whenever there was resistance; in the September deportations Approximately 15,681 people were deported, hundreds were shot for resistance, and 35 were hanged. From that moment on, the Lodz Ghetto became a forced labor camp.

　From September 5-12, 1942, more than 15,000 Polish-occupied Lodz ghettoes were sent to the extermination concentration camp at Chelmno nad Nerem. Only a small number of privileged children of the ghetto community escaped deportation.

　On February 8, 1940, the German authorities established a ghetto in Lodz, occupied Poland. Second in size only to the Warsaw Ghetto, the ghetto was separated from the rest of the city, fenced off, and guarded. During the four years that the Lodz Ghetto existed, over 200,000 people, including Jews, resided in the Lodz Ghetto. The ghetto existed until August 29, 1944. During that time, approximately 45,000 people died of starvation and disease. Others were killed in extermination concentration camps. It was estimated that only 5-7,000 survived until the end of the war.

　The greatest tragedy in the Lodz ghetto, the deportation of the "Wielka Spera" affected mainly children under the age of 10, the elderly over 65, the sick and the unemployed. The decision to deport was made by the Greater Nazi Reich Security Service in late August 1942; between September 5 and 12, 1942, the people of the Lodz ghetto community who had survived the war were scarred for life. Evacuations from hospitals and the central prison on September 1 and 2, days before the deportations, caused panic. People told each other their worst predictions, and many of the escapees were killed, as were officials who had opposed the order.

　On September 4, 1942, shortly before the tragic deportation, Council of Elders President Chaim Mordechai Lamkowski asked the Jews to give up their children and old people, saying, "The Germans are asking you to give up your children and old people. Give the children and the old people to me. Give the victims into my hands. No more victims," he said in a speech.On August 28, 1944, Rumkowski was beaten to death in the Auschwitz concentration camp by prisoners of the Lodz ghetto in revenge for the Holocaust.

　On September 5, 1942, a curfew was announced on the walls of the Lodz ghetto and a deportation committee was set up; until September 12, the Jewish ghetto police and special units took people in according to lists and sent them to the station. The actions of the Jewish ghetto police caused great anger among the ghetto population. The police efficiently took elderly people by force in nursing homes. They pulled babies from the breasts of resisting mothers. Healthy teeth were pulled from the jaws. Mothers and fathers did not want to give up their children, who were several years old and resisting. Blood flowed in the streets of Lodz Geto, in the houses, and in the rooms.