back...The youngest Polish victims of totalitarian Germany

“On 10.09.1943, my entire family was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to concentration camps. Together with my sister and brother, I was sent to a camp for Polish children and adolescents on Przemysłowa Street in Łódź," said Janina Bajroszewska, the youngest former inmate known by name of the camp on Przemysłowa Street in Łódź, thanks to the Museum historians' research.

The German camp for Polish children was to be a place of isolation for underage Poles. It was originally intended for children between the ages of 8 and 16. However, the Germans soon began to imprison younger children there, such as Mrs. Janina Bajroszewska, who was sent to the German concentration camp at Przemysłowa Street in Łódź at the age of 1.5 years.

“On 10.09.1943, my entire family was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to concentration camps. Together with my sister and brother, I was sent to a camp for Polish children and adolescents on Przemysłowa Street in Łódź,” –reported Janina Bajroszewska, a survivor who was 1.5 years old on the day of her arrest.

From the accounts of young prisoners, it appears that younger children and even infants were also imprisoned in the camp.

"There were about 30 infants, and I remember that 6 of them died in a short time, within a week of being brought in. The rest of the children died by being thrown into a sewer with hot water," testified Maria Andryszczak, a former inmate of the German concentration camp for Polish children in Łódź.