back...A shocking document regarding the establishment of the Nazi German Concentration Camp for Polish Children in Łódź

The discovered document is dated November 26, 1941; it is an account of a conference held two days earlier by the Reich Security Main Office. It was during this meeting – which resulted i.a. in the establishment of the Nazi German Concentration Camp for Polish Children in Przemysłowa Street in Łódź – that the Third Reich officials discussed setting up two additional camps for the youth, painting them with the same brush as the Müggelsee police dog-training facility.

Moreover, the documents contain information about the establishment of: a camp in Uckermark (in the end, a girls’ camp was located there; it was a division of KL Ravensbrück); a youth “protection” camp in the vicinity of Łódź (the camp in Przemysłowa Street was originally to be located in Łagiewniki and Dzierżązna near Łódź) and a new “boys’ camp” on the territory of the Reich. A fourth establishment specified in the document was a dog training facility located near Müggelsee Lake near Berlin. The German officials were particularly concerned about the possibility of “losing dogs during the winter months” due to the primitive conditions at the location. However, not a single sentence of the document refers to the living conditions in the camps for children which were planned to be established.

The documents, in German and translated into Polish, come from the prosecution files drawn up for the case against Eugenia Pol, which are stored in the archives of the Łódź branch of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN).