Deportations from Lodz to Chelmno (jan 16, 1942 – jan 1, 0)
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German authorities begin the deportation of Jews and Roma (Gypsies) from the Lodz ghetto to Chelmno.
Between January 1942 and March 1943, the SS Special Detachment Lange kills at least 145,000 Jews and a few thousand Roma (Gypsies) at Chelmno. German authorities will deport approximately half of the victims from the ghetto in Lodz. The Jews of Lodz formed the second largest Jewish community in prewar Poland, after Warsaw.
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