Kinder KZ
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Kinder KZ was a German concentration camp for Polish children in occupied Łodź (Litzmannstadt).
on section bordered roughly by what is today Bracka, Emilii Plater, Gornicza and Zagajnikowa streets. The main gate of the camp was located on Przemyslowa Street (Gewerbestrasse). Kinder KZ was run from 1941 to 1945. The prisoners were Polish children of deported Poles from all Polish provinces. Those among them found to be “racially valuable” were sent from here to the Reich for adoption and Germanisation
. Between 12,000 and 13,000 children were forced into passing through the camp. The youngest ones were merely a few months or two years old only, while most of them were aged between 8 and 14.
History
The camp was established In December 1942 inside Litzmannstadt GhettoLitzmannstadt Ghetto
The Łódź Ghetto was the second-largest ghetto established for Jews and Roma in German-occupied Poland...
on section bordered roughly by what is today Bracka, Emilii Plater, Gornicza and Zagajnikowa streets. The main gate of the camp was located on Przemyslowa Street (Gewerbestrasse). Kinder KZ was run from 1941 to 1945. The prisoners were Polish children of deported Poles from all Polish provinces. Those among them found to be “racially valuable” were sent from here to the Reich for adoption and Germanisation
Germanisation
Germanisation is both the spread of the German language, people and culture either by force or assimilation, and the adaptation of a foreign word to the German language in linguistics, much like the Romanisation of many languages which do not use the Latin alphabet...
. Between 12,000 and 13,000 children were forced into passing through the camp. The youngest ones were merely a few months or two years old only, while most of them were aged between 8 and 14.