Lućmierz-Las
village in Łódź, Poland
Lućmierz-Las (pronounced [ˈlut͡ɕmjɛʂ ˈlas], Lućmierz Forest) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zgierz, within Zgierz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland.
Along with the neighbouring settlement of Lućmierz-Ośrodek the village forms the Sołectwo Lućmierz. The first mention of Lućmierz appeared in 1391.
World War II history
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 then 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.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2402995. Authority coordinates are 51.894, 19.368. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1391 and 1939.
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