On 6 September 1939 , after the Invasion of Poland , he headed the Citizens ' Committee of Łódź with the task of keeping law and order after the Polish authorities fled the city and representing city residents to the German occupation authorities . He was arrested on 9 November 1939 during a large operation by Łódź Gestapo against the local intelligentsia , part of the so-called '' Intelligenzaktion '' . He was sent for several days to a transit camp factory and then released but placed under house arrest in the building of the Łódź Episcopal Curia
Intelligenzaktion
Intelligenzaktion
Kazimierz Tomczak