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EU allocates £110m to expand Lodz train station museum
Funds will cover expansion of the museum at the Radegast train station, from which Jews were shipped to death camps.
The European Union has allocated £110m for the expansion of the museum at the Radegast train station in Lodz, from which Jews were shipped to death camps during the Holocaust.
The money will be used to modernize the building and construct a multimedia model of the Lodz Ghetto, which existed from April 1940 to August 1944.
During the Holocaust, the Nazis sent Jews from the ghetto to death camps from the Radegast station. After the war the station fell into disrepair and appeared to be forgotten. A museum was opened there 10 years ago.
The multimedia model of the Lodz Ghetto, or Litzmannstadt Ghetto, as it was known in German, will be made on a scale of 1:1400 and will show the ghetto as it appeared in May 1944.
“Through multimedia, visitors will gain an opportunity to meet and listen to the witness of history,” according to Piotr Machlanski, director of the Museum of Independence Traditions in Lodz, which owns and operates the museum at the Radegast station.
The work at the station is expected to be completed in 2019.
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