The liquidation of the ghetto was ordered by Heinrich Himmler presumably already in May 1944.
From June 23 until July 14, 1944, transports with 7196 people departed for the extermination camp in Chełmno on the Ner. Later, liquidation operation was suspended.
On August 1, 1944, Rumkowski was informed that the “evacuation of the Jews into the Reich” was resumed. Appeals made by the German authorities and Rumkowski asking people to report voluntary for transports yielded meager results. Given the situation, the authorities ordered blockades of streets and round-ups. The operation lasted 20 days, until August 29, 1944, when the last transport of Jews departed from Łódź to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The Łódź ghetto ceased to exist.
During the liquidation of the ghetto, in principle, the only possibility to save oneself was hiding in the ghetto. This, however, few managed to do. One of them was, of course, Jakub Poznański, who, along with his wife and daughter, saved his life twice. For the first time in August 1944; later the captured were made to join the cleaning commando. And the second time was when the Germans wanted to liquidate the cleaning commando and its members. To this day, at the Jewish cemetery there are 9 open pits prepared for them. Approx. 880 people survived in the ghetto.
