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Hitler’s concentration camp for children

The children, ranging in age from as young as 2 years old up to 16, were routinely beaten, starved and subjected to humiliating and harsh punishments. Forced to work in gruelling conditions, many of the children, their organisms pushed to the limits of endurance, expired from disease and fatigue. Kalbar/TFN

Joanna Podolska-Płocka, the director of the Marek Edelman Dialogue Center in Łódź, talks to TFN about a Nazi German ‘concentration’ camp exclusively for children aged between 2 and 16. Operating between December 1942 and January 1945, the camp has now been almost totally lost from the collective memory.

Beaten, starved and tortured: The horrifying story of Hitler’s concentration camp for children

TFN’s Stuart Dowell travelled to the city of Łódź where, 76 years ago this month, Hitler’s monstrous SS set up a ‘concentration’ camp exclusively for children aged between 2 and 16.

Take a walk on Łódź side: a city neighbourhood defies the past and points to the future

Named in November by CNN as arguably Europe’s coolest neighbourhood, TFN looks at the relentless rise of Łódź’s OFF Piotrkowska Centrum

New guide raises the roof on Łódź’s long forgotten, but beautiful, Art Nouveau architecture

Often thought of nothing more than a post-industrial city Łódź, in fact, boasts an abundance of Art Nouveau.

So far so Łódź: City of Łódź comes fourth in fDi Global Free Zones awards

Łódź’s success has been a long time coming and the special economic zone has been central to the city turning its once crumbling industrial landscape into a thriving destination for business. Łódź SEZ vice-president Agnieszka Sygitowicz told TFN: “We are the only Polish zone in the ranking, which is a confirmation of the trust that companies in the zone have placed in us.”

Łódź you believe it: Poland’s most off-the-wall city stuns the world with its outsized art

A massive wall-art project brings a dash of colour to the once fading glories of Łódź.

Getting plastered: Łodź tenement gets stunning makeover from fantasy inspired artist

High-tech techniques allow artist’s work to transform a crumbling piece of city landscape.

Polish firm to supply new technology to US bio-refinery

The Biotechnika company in Łódź, central Poland, will supply self-developed innovative technology to a new-build bio-refinery in North Dakota, USA, in a deal worth over USD 80 million.

The desperate final days of the Łódź ghetto

74 years ago to the day the last train transport of Jews left Łódź for Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Litzmannstadt Ghetto girl on special mural in Łódź

A commemorative mural showing a Jewish girl in the World War II Litzmannstadt Ghetto in Łódź, central Poland was unveiled on one of the city's buildings on Sunday. The girl's figure was reproduced from an old photograph, her identity and later fate are unknown.

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