page_title: Lućmierz-Las
section_title: World War II history
hierarchical_section_title: Lućmierz-Las / World War II history
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Pomnik w okolicy wsi Lućmierz-Las upamiętniający ofiary drugiej wojny światowej.
context_page_description: Lućmierz-Las is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zgierz, within Zgierz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres north-west of Zgierz and 14 km north-west of the regional capital Łódź.
  The village has a population of 20. Along with the neighbouring settlement of Lućmierz-Ośrodek the village forms the Sołectwo Lućmierz. The first mention of Lućmierz appeared in 1391.
context_section_description: During the occupation of Poland in World War II, Lućmierz-Las was the location of secret executions of Jews and Poles by Nazi German Einsatzgruppen helped by Selbstschutz executioners already since 1939. It is estimated that up to 30,000 people were murdered there in mass executions beginning with Intelligenzaktion Litzmannstadt and than continued with the killings of inmates of the Radogoszcz prison and Jews from the Łódź Ghetto. After the war, a memorial has been built there to commemorate victims buried in mass graves.
caption: One of forest mass graves at Lućmierz-Las
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