Dzierżązna, Łódź Voivodeship
{{see also|Dzierżązna, Greater Poland Voivodeship}}
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Dzierżązna {{IPA|pl|d͡ʑerˈʐɔ̃zna|pron}} is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zgierz, within Zgierz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately {{convert|8|km|mi|0}} north of Zgierz and {{convert|16|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} north of the regional capital Łódź.{{cite web |url=http://www.stat.gov.pl/broker/access/prefile/listPreFiles.jspa |title=Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) |date=2008-06-01 |language=pl}}
World War II
Before the Nazi German invasion of Poland in 1939, Dzierżązna was the location of a large estate owned by two lawyers from Łódź, with a spacious manor house built by one of them. Poles were evicted within months and the property taken over by a Volksdeutsch Alfred Krinke from Selbstschutz. In 1942 the manor house was appropriated by the German police, who established a concentration camp on premises for Polish girls 8–16 years of age.{{cite web |url=http://lubczasopismo.salon24.pl/ruchnarodowy/post/527046,dorobek-ich-ojcow-niemiecki-oboz-dla-polskich-dzieci |title=Dorobek "ich ojców" – niemiecki obóz dla polskich dzieci |publisher=Salon24 |date=2013 |access-date=1 October 2013 |author=Staff writer |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004213434/http://lubczasopismo.salon24.pl/ruchnarodowy/post/527046,dorobek-ich-ojcow-niemiecki-oboz-dla-polskich-dzieci |archive-date=4 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web | url=http://nanofiber.salon24.pl/526624,polen-jugendverwahrlager-in-litzmannstadt | title=Polen-Jugendverwahrlager in Litzmannstadt |publisher=Salon24 |year=2013 |access-date=1 October 2013 |author=Staff writer}}
File:Polish children in Nazi-German labor camp in Dzierżązna.jpg]]
The girls' camp was a sub-camp of the main camp for Polish children in Łódź called Kinder-KZ Litzmannstadt (full name in {{langx|de|Polen-Jugendverwahrlager der Sicherheitspolizei in Litzmannstadt}}), operated from January 1943 till January 1945. The adjacent fields in Dzierżązna were cultivated by Polish children to supply produce for the main concentration camp in the city averaging 1,600 Polish child labourers.[http://www.lodz-ghetto.com/the_camp_for_polish_children.html,37 The camp for Polish children Przemystowa Street (Gewerbestrasse)] Lodz-Ghetto.com homepage.
Polish girls were prepared in Dzierżązna for slave labour on German farms in the Reich, under the command of SS Aufseherin {{ill|Sydomia Bayer|pl}} (b.1903-hanged 12 November 1945 Poland).{{cite web | url=http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/nazigirls.html | title=Female Nazi war criminals | publisher=Capital Punishment | access-date=January 27, 2019}} She is known to have killed at least one of the little girls, named Urszula Kaczmarek, by flogging her to death in front of other children. The camp and sub-camp were the only complex of its kind established in occupied Poland. Other similar camps existed only in Croatia.{{cite web | url=http://www.dzienniklodzki.pl/artykul/721245,oboz-dla-dzieci-przy-ul-przemyslowej-nie-byl-obozem-wychowawczym,id,t.html?cookie=1 | title=Obóz dla dzieci przy ul. Przemysłowej nie był obozem wychowawczym | publisher=Dziennik Łódzki | date=2012-12-16 | access-date=1 October 2013 | author=Joanna Leszczyńska}}
File:Kinder Kz.jpg in Łódź to which KZ Dzierżązna belonged as a sub-camp]]
