[1] Located within the historic Łęczyca Land, it is the capital of Zgierz County in the Łódź Voivodeship.

[2] Already in September 1939, the Germans committed first atrocities against Poles and carried out executions of Polish civilian defenders.

[5] As part the Intelligenzaktion, Germans carried out large massacres of Poles from the region in the nearby forests of Łagiewniki and Lućmierz, killing hundreds and thousands of people respectively.

[6] Germans also carried out expulsions of Poles and deported over 8,000 people to forced labour to Germany.

In December, 1939, the Germans deported 2500 of the Jews to Głowno in the General Gouvernment, German-occupied central Poland.

[7] On 20 March 1942, the Germans carried out a public execution of 100 Poles in the town, who were then buried in Lućmierz-Las.