Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located 120 km (75 mi) south-west of Warsaw...

3 square miles (3.4 km2), or 7.2 persons per room. The Łódź Ghetto (set up in the city of Łódź, renamed Litzmannstadt, in the territories of Poland annexed...

"liquidate" the ghetto and send the Jews to an extermination camp. Most Nazi ghettos were liquidated in 1943; some, such as that of Łódź, persisted until...

Łódź Ghetto formed. Hundreds of Poles from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the nearby village of Lućmierz-Las. March: 11 Polish boy scouts from Łódź...

deputy director of administration of the Łódź Ghetto, Palfinger advocated for "a rapid dying out" of the ghetto's inhabitants. By spring 1940, Alexander...

the Ararat Theater in Łódź. In 1940 he was forced to move to the Ghetto Litzmannstadt in Łódź, where he took part in the ghetto's cultural life as a conductor...

hospital upbringing had proven invaluable in the Warsaw Ghetto. After World War II, he studied at Łódź Medical School and became a noted cardiologist who invented...

largest ghettos, such as Warsaw and Łódź, were established in existing residential neighborhoods and closed by fences or walls. In many smaller ghettos, Jews...

The Warsaw Ghetto Museum is a historical museum in Warsaw currently under construction. The target seat of the museum is the historic complex of the former...

The Budapest Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto set up in Budapest, Hungary, where Jews were forced to relocate by a decree of the Government of National Unity led...

to make the ghettos useful to the occupiers as a labor reserve. The Warsaw ghetto contained more Jews than all of France; the Łódź ghetto more Jews than...

people of Łódź always lived there, so the choice was excellent from an ideological point of view. In addition, this was the location of Łódź Ghetto during...

Du Partizaner — "Fun di getos tfise vent/in di velder fraye/anshtot keytn oyf di hent/kh’alt a biks a naye!" ("From the ghetto's prison walls/into the...

son, Joseph Singer. Most of the novel takes place in the Polish city of Łódź, mostly among the large Jewish community that lived there before World War...

Akiba Rubinstein, in Łódź. In 1907, he again finished 2nd, behind Rubinstein, and ahead of Gersz Rotlewi and Gersz Salwe in Łódź (Quadrangular). In 1907/08...

Rosenfarb began writing poetry at the age of eight. After surviving the Łódź Ghetto during the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany, Rosenfarb was deported...

the Soviet Union since the 1939 invasion. The murders of Jews from the Łódź Ghetto in the Warthegau district began in early December 1941 with the use of...

(Schapiro) known as Dr. Szeffer (1882–1944) was a Polish chess master. Born in Łódź, he moved to Germany where he studied medicine and received his M.D. degree...

(1939) in Łódź City championships. During World War II, he lived in Łódź and Warsaw. He took 2nd, behind Henryk Pogorieły, at the Warsaw Ghetto tournament...

wheel) and "Di Parodye Zum Redl" (Parody on the wheel). "Papirosn" was later amended to mirror the tribulations of the Holocaust in the ghettos of Poland...

invasion of Poland led to Kaczerginski's eventual imprisonment in the Vilna Ghetto, where he helped hide Jewish cultural works with Sutzkever as part of the...

(Josek) Kolski (1899, Łódź – 1941, Warsaw) was a Polish chess master. In the period 1920-1930s, Kolski was one of the strongest Łódź chess players. In 1922...

Central Committee. He edited a Bund newspaper and in 1938 was elected to the Łódź city council. Upon Germany's invasion of Poland, he fled to Warsaw and was...

lesbian author, academic and activist. Klepfisz was born in the Warsaw Ghetto on April 17, 1941, the daughter of Michał Klepfisz, a member of the Jewish...

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26°0′47″E / 53.12972°N 26.01306°E / 53.12972; 26.01306 Baranavichy Ghetto was a ghetto created in August 1941 in Baranavichy, Belarus, with 8,000 to 12...

parties, taking 17 of the 20 municipal council seats won by Jewish parties. In Łódź the Bund won 57.4% (11 of 17 seats won by Jewish parties). For the first...

Brave and Desperate. Israel: Ghetto Fighters House. p. 70. Mark, Bernard (1947). Dos bukh fun gvure (in Yiddish). Lodz: Dos naye lebn. p. 131. Pinye...

(Kraków) Lublin Holocaust Memorial Radegast train station (Łódź) Survivors' Park, (Łódź) Treblinka extermination camp, Treblinka Monument to the Memory...

Poland Białystok Kraków Łódź Lublin Lwów Radom Warsaw Elsewhere Budapest Kovno Minsk Riga Theresienstadt Vilna Judenrat Jewish Ghetto Police Reich Association...