On the National Day of Polish Children of War, celebrated on September 10th, children's ceremony ceremonies will be held in Łódź – victims of the German camp at Przemysłowa Street. The remains of tiny prisoners were recovered and exhumed by the Institute of National Memory. The ceremony will have a state character.
Anna Józwik from the Łódź branch of the IPN informed about the planned celebrations to pay tribute to the youngest victims of planet War II.
On Thursday, September 10, at 11 a.m., the Holy Mass in the Church of St. After that, the ceremony procession will go to the burial site in the cemetery at Chicken Street, where ceremony executions will be performed according to the military ceremony.
The remains of the children were taken during the four-step exhumation work conducted by the IPN Search and recognition Office from 2023 to 2024. As a consequence of the investigation conducted so far, the genetic recognition of 2 boys was obtained: Zdzisław Kafarski and Henryk Słowoszewski.
Based on historical and preserved documentation and anthropological opinion, the remaining remains of the children were most likely owned by Edmund Agaciński, Tadeusz Kalbarczyk, Zygmunt Olejniczak, Jan Frej, Henryk Kadziński and Edward Gąsiorek. Despite genetic analysis, it was not possible to confirm the identity of the wanted persons, which was affected by the mediocre state of DNA behaviour in the remains. IPN investigation continues.
The Preventive Polish Youth safety Police Camp in Łódź (Polen-Jugendverwahrlager der Sicherheitspolizei in Litzmannstadt) operated from 1 December 1942 to January 1945. It was created in an area separated from the Łódź ghetto and was managed by German criminal police. It was located on the streets: Industrial, Emilia Plater and Górnicza. The basic reason for placing the kid in the camp was the Polish nationality and any form of opposition or "inadequacy" to the principles imposed by the occupier.
In the camp, children worked hard after respective hours. The boys were most frequently active in straightening weaving needles or plaiting wicker mats. However, girls were active in tailoring work, for example. any children did not last their stay in the camp. The origin of their deaths was hunger rations, work beyond force, terrible sanitation and brutal treatment of juvenile prisoners.
Two to 3 1000 Polish children passed through the camp. By name, 77 victims of the camp at Przemysłowa Street were identified. They were established on the basis of the burial book, which was preserved at St. Wojciech's Cemetery in Łódź, where the bodies of tiny prisoners were buried.
In the post-war period, a residential settlement and Grey Privates Park were established in the erstwhile camp. In 1971, the Memorial of Martyrology of Children Broken Heart was unveiled there.
The Memorial of Polish Children was unveiled in St. Wojciech's Cemetery in 2023. It is located close the cemetery chapel, in the immediate vicinity of the actual burial site of children from the camp at Przemysłowa Street.
APW, PAP
