Radogoszcz prison

[1] The physical building dates from the early 1930s, when Samuel Abbe built a factory in village Radogoszcz (now Zgierska Street in Łódź).

It was used to house prisoners for the many German groups such as the Gestapo, SS, and newly formed local Police.

The prison was mainly staffed by Local Poles of German descent who had signed the list to be declared Volksdeutsche.

After they began shooting the sick in the hospital they experienced resistance, and decided to lock the entire building and set it alight.

Of the 1,500 prisoners in the 4 storey part of the building that was burned, only 30 survived, many in a water tank on the top floor.

The only person convicted of crimes committed at the prison was the commandant Walther Pelzhausen who was captured in the American Zone.