back...Witness accounts on the burials of Polish children from the camp on Przemysłowa Street

From the beginning of June 1942, by decision of the German occupation authorities, the two Roman Catholic cemeteries in Łódź – the Saint Adalbert cemetery (the so-called “cemetery in Kurczaki”) and the Saint Francis cemetery – were designated as the only burial sites for Poles within the town.

As a result, many of the victims of the German concentration camp for Polish children were buried in the Saint Adalbert cemetery. “Cemetery in Kurczaki”became the burial place of 76 small prisoners of the Polen-Jugendverwahrlager Litzmannstadt. Only two tombstones from this period have survived to this day – the tombstone of Jurek Rutkowski and the tombstone of Zygmunt Olejniczak.