Radogoszcz station () is a historic railway station in à Âódà º, Poland. The station, which was originally built between 1926 and 1937, was used extensively during the Holocaust. It served as the Umschlagplatz for transporting Jews from the à Âódà º Ghetto to the extermination camps during Operation Reinhard. The "loading platform" is in Marysin, a neighbourhood in the city's Baà Âuty district.
During Second World War, the station was situated just outside the à Âódà º Ghetto â one of the biggest Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Europe. The Umschlagplatz at the Radegast station was the place where predominantly Jewish inhabitants of à Âódà º including thousands of persons expelled from across occupied Poland were gathered for deportation directly to Cheà Âmno (Kulmhof) and Auschwitz German extermination camps. Approximately 200,000 Polish, Austrian, German, Luxemburg and Czech Jews, and many Roma, Sinti and Lalleri passed through the station on the way to their deaths in the period from January 16, 1942, to August 29, 1944. The collection point had the same significance for à Âódà º as the better known Umschlagplatz had for the Warsaw Ghetto.
In 2004, the commemoration ceremonies on the sixtieth anniversary of the destruction of the à Âódà º Ghetto in 1944 and the departure of the last transport from Radegast spurred efforts to transform the former station into a Holocaust memorial. On August 28, 2005, a monument commemorating the Jewish victims who passed through the station was unveiled, based on design by Czesà Âaw Bielecki, and featuring the Tunnel of the Deported. The renovated station building serves as one of the divisions of the à Âódà º Museum of Independence.