page_title: Radegast train station
section_title: Memorial
hierarchical_section_title: Radegast train station / Memorial
caption_attribution_description: Stacja Radegast w Łodzi
context_page_description: Radogoszcz station is a historic railway station in Łódź, Poland. The station, which was originally built between 1926 and 1937, was used extensively during The Holocaust. It served as the Umschlagplatz for transporting Jews from the Łódź Ghetto to the extermination camps during Operation Reinhard. The "loading platform" is in Marysin, a neighbourhood in the city's Bałuty district.
context_section_description: In 2004, the commemoration ceremonies on the sixtieth anniversary of the destruction of the Łódź Ghetto in 1944 and the departure of the last transport from Radegast spurred efforts to transform the former station into a Holocaust memorial. On August 28, 2005, a monument commemorating the Jewish victims who passed through the station was unveiled, based on design by Czesław Bielecki, and featuring the 140-metre (460 ft) Tunnel of the Deported. The renovated station building serves as one of the divisions of the Łódź Museum of Independence.
caption: The Umschlagplatz (holding area) at Radegast station, with period cattle trucks similar to the ones used to transport people to the extermination camps during Operation Reinhard.
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