Comments on: Gestapo Headquarters - Litzmannstadt Ghetto

By: siegfried buchwalter

siegfried buchwalter — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:14:43 +0000

anyone who witnessed the sperremreply

By: siegfried buchwalter

siegfried buchwalter — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:13:29 +0000

Lodz Ghetto was Dante’s inferno. The Jews taken to the Kripo were cruelly murdered. The worst happened during the Sperre when day in and out Reichsautobahn trailers manned bny Einsatztruppen took Jewish children, women and men to their death to
Treblinka. My mother was murdered in Chelmno. The Lodz Ghetto was hell on earth.

By: Sterling

Sterling — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:41:52 +0000

What s stark capture…nice work, Krystian!

By: salomea kape

salomea kape — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:40:38 +0000

A few corrections from a person who was in Lodz-ghetto from the beginning till the end at the age from 13-18. The Gestapo building was close to Baluter Ring where the German and Jewish administration was located. The Gestapo members, devoted and trained Nazis took part in every deportation to death camps and also controlled the German administrators, infamous Biebow and the Jewish leaders of the ghetto. I disagree strongly with your description of the ghetto” as small and INDEPENDENT (!)slave labor camp. A ghetto that had at the beginning over 200.000 inhabitants could hardly be called “small.” As a matter of fact it was the second biggest ghetto in Europe, after Warsaw-Ghetto. The Nazis serving in Gestapo were devoid of any humanity although a few of them were lawyers.

By: George Donze

George Donze — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:39:52 +0000

My father, now deceased, gave me a WWII german pistol which he obtained while serving in Europe during the war. It is a P model 37 which I have learned was manufactured in Hungary in 1941. The weapon was supposedly obtained from a captured German officer.

The holster contains the following identification:

“K.G.R. Dr Schefe”

Could this be the same Dr Schefe mentioned here. If so, do we know if, when and where he was captured? What do the initials K.G.R. stand for?

Thank you.

George

By: Wilhelm Ernst Kother ( Bill )

Wilhelm Ernst Kother ( Bill ) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:44:17 +0000

I was born in Lodz Dec. 1940. My parents were ethnic Germans ( Volksdeutsche ) also born in Poland. Both My parents are dead, but I remember where we lived, and how we fled Poland to West Germany, and in 1956 immigrated to the US. I spent 1 or 2 weeks in a Konzentrazionslager but have no horrific memories. I was 5 or 6. I did however for many years have unusual dreams of filthy toilets and urinals and showers, and had no idea where these dreams came from until I watched a show on PBS that mentioned the deliberate filth created by the Nazies to show how filthy Jews were. My fathers name was Otto and my mother’s Frieda. I was never told that there was a Jewish Ghetto in Lodz. would love to hear from anyone who might have known my family. Regards, Bill Kother.

By: Alan R. Elinger

Alan R. Elinger — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:18:35 +0000

Thank you for the photograph of my father´s childhood home. You saved me the trouble of visiting Poland just to satisfy my curiosity.
It was my Grand Fathers home-factory. My grand mother and father bought it in 1923 and in 1927 my father was born there. His 2 sister’s as well. The two floor´s upstair´s were originaly a shirt factory my Grand Father made. It was the first ¨pre made¨manufactured shirt company in all of Europe.
My grand Father did very well financialy and employed many local residents. When the Nazi´s entered Lodz, they confiscated the property, relocated my Father´s family and later murdered all my father´s family. He was the only surviver.

By: Home exchange

Home exchange — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:15:38 +0000

hey cool photo! The sky looks incredible.

By: JD Merveldt

JD Merveldt — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:54:40 +0000

further to my last:
One of these officers remained in Warsaw for nearly a year and was eventually recaptured and sent to Colditz where he survived the remainder of the War and rejoined the British Army to have a distinguished career.
The other two officers where recaptured as they were crossing the border at the “neubulgarischen Stadt” Pirot.
I would be interested in more information of the Staatspolizeistelle Litzmannstadt and SS-Sturmbannführer Reg.Rat Dr. Schefe if you know.

The letter to Schefe from the Leitstelle in Posen was signed by a person by the name of Stossberg

Once I know more I would be happy to let you have a copy of the origional and the translation
Regards
JD Merveldt

By: JD Merveldt

JD Merveldt — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:43:27 +0000

I am currently translating a copy of a letter dated 19 Feb 1942 sent from
Gestpo, Staatspolizeileitstelle - Posen
to the
Gestapo,
Stadtpolizeistelle Litzmannstadt, Reg. Rat Dr. Schefs -o.V.i.A
Litzmannstadt
Gardestrasse 1-7

in connection with the escape of three English officers from STALAG XXI. D in Posen who escaped via Litzmannstadt, Warsaw, Krakau, Kaschau, Budapest, Belgrade, Jagodina to Pirot where they wanted to escape via Sofia and Svilangrad to Turkey