Agnieszka Minich-Scholz is the daughter of Marian Minich, the first director of the Museum of Art in Łódź. On January 14, 1940, she was displaced together with her parents, grandmother Anna and brother Rafał from the Montwiłł-Mirecki housing estate to a transit camp at Łąkowa 4 Street.
Henryk Łyszkowicz is a former prisoner of the German concentration camp for Polish children on Przemysłowa Street in Łódź, recently found by the Museum staff. During his first meeting with the Museum Director, the survivor talked about his life in the camp.
A list with the names of about 700 Polish children – victims of German camps located in Łódź and the surrounding area. The list was presented for the first time during the 1stscientific and didactic conference of the Museum of Polish Children – victims of totalitarianism, a video report of which can be watched on the Museum’s website.
“In 1943 or 1944 (I don't remember exactly), a typhoid epidemic spread throughout the camp. I was one of the first to contract this disease. I was taken from Krankstube, a sickroom, to the hospital outside the camp premises in Radogoszcz. (...) In 1944, thanks to the help of (...) a medical orderly, I managed to escape and made my way to Warsaw. After a few days, a rising broke out in Warsaw in which I took an active part as a runner. I was wounded during the fighting, and to this day I‘ve had shrapnel near my right lung."
AIPN, GK 165/379, Letter of Adam Dzięgielewski, June 14, 1967, vol. 2, p. 287.
“It is a challenging task to talk about dramatic issues in a manner accessible to the youngest audience. The creators of the »To było tu« (“It was here”) animated film performed it brilliantly. The animation, telling the story of the German concentration camp for Polish children located in Łódź, takes the viewers back to the year 1942, to Przemysłowa Street, where the fate of a modern day little girl could have been changed forever.
