Radegast Station

The station, built in 1937, was converted into a sealed-off, guarded area complete with barbed-wire fencing, guardhouses, warehouses, and additional tracks. It served as the main point of entry for food and fuel for the Łódź Ghetto, and also served as a transfer point for raw materials for the production of clothes and uniforms for the German military. Additionally, Jews were also led out from the station to labor camps and construction sites. Today, the original wooden building and loading platform still stand, and the site serves as a Holocaust memorial with a monument and Tunnel of the Deported.

The Radogoszcz Station, also known as the "loading platform in Marysin," played a crucial role in the Holocaust as the main point of entry and departure for the Lodz Ghetto. In 1941, Jews and Gypsies were brought to the station from outside of Poland and neighboring ghettoes to be confined in the Lodz Ghetto. Starting in 1942, the station became the departure point for Jews and Gypsies being sent to their deaths at the Chelmno-nad-Nerem death camp. Over 70,000 people were sent there between 1942 and 1944. The transports were temporarily halted but resumed in June and July of 1944, with over 7,000 people being sent to Chelmno.

In August 1944, the remaining inhabitants of the ghetto were sent to Auschwitz, with the last transport leaving on August 29th. The majority of those who were sent to Auschwitz did not survive. The Radogoszcz Station, also known as the Umschlagplatz, was where people were assembled before being sent to their deaths, marking the final moments for those in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto.

The Radogoszcz Station building had been left in ruin for many years, largely forgotten. However, in 2002, the Monumentum Iudaicum Lodzense Foundation, an organization dedicated to preserving Jewish heritage in Lodz, proposed turning the building into a museum of the ghetto. This would make it one of the key historical sites that tells the tragic story of the Lodz ghetto.