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August 09, 1944


Destruction of the Lodz Ghetto

From August 9–August 28, SS and police units liquidate the Lodz ghetto and deport more than 60,000 Jews and an undetermined number of Roma (Gypsies) to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center.

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