Lodz, Poland, Baluty Disctrict - Rote Haus (Red Hause) - German criminal police - KRIPO - station for Litzmannstadt Ghetto (Kriminalkommissariat Getto). One of the places of martyrdom of Jews in Ghetto Litzmannstadt, created by Germans in the northern, old and poor part of Lodz (Litzmannstadt). Before and after the 2nd World War the house was and still is a presbytery of the Gothic revival church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Each important house of the ghetto has a special plate with information in Polish, English, Jewish and Hebrew. Camera: Samsung GX10, HDR.
I lived in Lodz in Baluty on Ul. Marysinska as an American Fulbright for a year. I’m a filmmaker, and “The Lilliput” (from my script) is the film project I began there in 2007-08, shooting 7000 linear feet on 35mm, and editing the trailer. I am still hard at work on this project. Hope to shoot in Lodz and Zgierz and other locations in 2011.
Do widzenia,
Minna
http://www.thelilliputmovie.com
http://www.backtogombain.com
http://www.gombinsociety.org
Red house should be destroyed and a monument erected in the memory of the victims killed by the personnel of KRIPO- kriminal Polizei. A good number of Volksdeutchen were there employed. I remember the name of Sutter,an ethnic German from a small town around Lodz, who spoke Yidish. It seems that he conducted some business with Jews before the war. But Sutter was not alone, he only was a master in torture. The routine in Kripo was severe beating before demanding dollars, gold etc from the victims.Giving the possession didnt help and killing was the final result. The torture was sadistic and very few men left the red house alive.
With a sadness in my heart I have seen a lot of activity in this bloody house during my visit.