wróć...Celebration of the 81st anniversary of the end of the camp on Przemysłowa Street

On 16 January 2026, a ceremony was held to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the end of the German camp for Polish children on Przemysłowa Street in Łódź. The event, organised by the Museum of Polish Children – Victims of Totalitarianism, was a tribute to the youngest victims of Nazi terror.

The main celebration began at 12 in the Szare Szeregi Park in Łódź. Representatives of government and local authorities, clergy, academic and cultural institutions, school headmasters, students, residents of Łódź, and all those wishing to pay tribute to the children whose childhood and lives were taken away gathered at the Children’s Martyrdom Monument. The highlight of this part of the gathering was the ceremonial laying of wreaths.

The key event of this year’s commemoration will be the opening of the latest exhibition prepared by the curatorial team of the Museum, entitled "Camp girls. Minor female prisoners of a camp for Polish children".

“The exhibition is devoted to the history of teenage girls who were forced prisoners of the camp for Polish children located on Przemysłowa Street in Łódź. We learn about their experiences through their own accounts which – although written many years after the end of the war – remain powerful and harrowing testimonies of their camp ordeal: economic exploitation, hunger, and the constant pressure of psychological and physical suffering. The memories of the young girls, presented alongside photographs showing scenes from camp “life,” expose both the harsh reality and the distorted image of the camp created by the Nazis. Although the photographs were taken by the perpetrators, who sought to present this place of isolation in the best possible light, they nevertheless reveal the entanglement of the young girls in the complex reality of camp life,” explains Andrzej Grzegorczyk, author of the exhibition.

We would like to thank all participants for their attendance and for sharing the memory of the history of the camp on Przemysłowa Street.