November 10 at night the fire started in synagogue on Zduńska street. Germans did not allow to extinguish the fire. People could only water neighbouring Jewish houses, not to spread the fire. The building was burning to the evening of November 12. Only ashes remained.

The next step of the oppression was creation of the ghetto covering Zduńska, Bielawska, Browarna, Ciemna and Ciasna streets. It was only a part of the area previously resided by Jews. The ghetto was walled off by wooden fence, barbed wire and from place to place brick wall built from the remains of the old synagogue. In autumn 1940 after excluding Bielawska and Stanisławkski streets the area of Jewish district was reduced. Ghetto’s gates were guarded from the outside by Polish „Blue Police” assisted by Germans, from the inside by Jewish guard duty. From 6000 to 8000 people were imprisoned in the ghetto, among them there were Jews from the vicinity and refugees. The situation was worsened by lack of food and other daily necessities. Jews were forced to work in Labour House in Bratkowice and in the labour camps in Kapituła and Małszyce.

According to the data form Jewish Social Assistance by the end of February 1941 there were 6050 Jews in Łowicz, 3750 were residents and 3200 - refugees. On February 22, 1941 German soldier brought to the Judenrat’s office in Łowicz eviction order. Every day 300 Jews were to leave, so that on March 19 made the city „judenrein”. To that day most of the Łowicz Jews were moved from the city to the Warsaw’s ghetto. Only 70 workers of the Forced Labour House, some of the clerks form Judenrat and Jewish policemen stayed. After liquidation of the ghetto, Germans started to render it usable for their need. Most of the Jewish houses were taken by Christians. The fence and barbed wire were wound up. The remains of the synagogue’s ruin were sold to the building contractors.

Some of the refugees escaped and tried to hide on the „Aryan side” of their home town. It was extremely difficult, because in the case of capture both, the refugee and the one hiding him could be killed. Despite that, there were cases when extraordinary devotion and solidarity were present. The examples of such acts were Maria Kutkowska and Zofia Sadowska, both honoured with the title of Righteous among the Nations.

Jews carried away to the Warsaw ghetto got into very difficult situation - without daily necessities, packed into small rooms they had to live in terrible conditions. They were helped by their fellow-countrymen from Łowicz. Thank to them we know how the situation looked like. They gathered the data for underground archive of Warsaw’s ghetto organized by E. Ringelblum. Among over 400 000 Jews evicted from Warsaw there were couple of thousands Łowicz Jews. They died in gas chambers in Treblinka.

Only about 100 Łowicz Jews (2% of the population) survived the war. Some of them returned to the city trying to reconstruct Jewish life in Łowicz. In 1946 they established Jewish Congregation. But in 1948, fomented by anti-Semitism and emigration of all member county office noted down no activity of the congregation.

Hiding behind „Aryan papers” for the name Krajewski rich pre-war investor Anatol Wekstein survived. In 1945 he visited Łowicz and paid for taking out from Bzura River couple of hundreds gravestones used in regulating the river. Only 36 of them were successfully put on their old places. The rest was placed on the spare spots, because it was not possible to recreate the old order. Anatol Wekstein and his wife were buried on the Jewish cemetery in Łowicz. It was the last interment in this necropolis.

In 1947 city mayor ordered to take out remaining gravestones from Bzura River. They were used as a material for building the monument of gratitude and friendship with Soviets placed on the Old Town Market Place. In that way communists showed scorn to the victims of Extermination and put them in one box with Germans. The monument was dismantled in 1991 and the gravestones returned to their original places. Two of the them are presented on the exhibition. Ruined synagogue was took to pieces during the German occupation. In its place, on Zduńska street there is the shopping centre now. The building of the 19^th century wooden prayer house on Browarna street was taken apart  in 1995. Many other places were taken over by Poles. Jewish Łowicz disappeared. The only mementos are traces after mezuzahs in the door-frames on Zduńska street and the street’s merchant characteristics.

The Jews of Łowicz who survived emigrated to Israel and Australia and kept the memories about their city alive. As a sign of homage and nostalgia for killed  fellow-countrymen they published a book in 1957, edited by G. Szajaka. The book titled „Lowicz a sztot in Mazowsze” - „Lowicz a city of Masovia” was published in Yiddish language and was kind of tribute to exterminated community.

Łowicz for many years forgot about Jews. Slaughtered by Germans, died in the memory of citizens of Łowicz as well. Today, thanks to the monument devoted to the memory of Poles, Jews and soviet prisoners, the victims of Nazi terror, killed between 1939 and 1945 in forced-labour camps in Małszyce and Kapituła and the Chamber of Memory commemorating Jews of Łowicz we would like to pay homage and save from falling into oblivion everything what remained after Łowicz Jews.