Facts at a Glance Searchable Databases Contributors History & Research Maps, History, Background, Surrounding Communities,  Bibliography, Film, Newspapers, Libraries & Archives Tracing Your Family Records, Archives, Cemeteries, Streets Database, Holocaust Victims & Survivors, Immigration, Landsmanshaften & Directories Pre-War Community Beginnings, Chevra Kadisha, Rabbis, Cantors, Noted Citizens, Synagogues, Organizations, Photos, Postcards & Memories The Holocaust Lodz Ghetto, Records, Deportations, Statistics, Maps, Photos, Art, Music,  Documents & Testimonies After the Holocaust Photos, Archives, Memorials Jewish Lodz Today Travelogues, Photos, City Guides, Jewish Community & Virtual Tour  Guestbook Lodz Area Research Group ShtetLinks Directory JewishGen Home Page   Memorial to the destroyed Jewish communities of Lodz and its region A project to commemorate the Jews of Lodz, by the XIII Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace (13th High School)...a must see. Visit the JewishGen Mall! ShtetlSchleppers Schedule available online, or e-mail: shtetlschleppers@jewishgen.org   Join us in Chicago in 2008 28th IAGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy August 17-22, 2008	Welcome to the Lodz ShtetLinks home page. This site was created to share information on Jewish Lodz, to guide those researching their roots, and to commemorate the Jewish community that was virtually wiped out in the Shoah. This site contains original articles and hundreds of links to documents, interviews, and photographs on Lodz and surrounding communities. To begin, click on a main topic to the left.  This site is hosted at no charge by JewishGen, Inc. If you find this site of value, your JewishGen-erosity is greatly appreciated. Remember ... never forget.
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	Search this site  powered by FreeFind       More Search Options   Featuring... Original testimonies by Lodz ghetto survivor Victor Breitburg Lodz Streets Database and Streets in the Lodz Ghetto A Virtual Tour of Jewish Lodz Old Postcard Gallery Announcement The books about the Jews of Lodz are now translated into English on-line. See "Jews of the Old Lodz". Prominent and even not so prominent Jews from Lodz and surrounding towns are listed. It is worth looking for your family surnames. You are also invited to submit entries.  What's New... Article by Dr. Harold Bursztajn about his father Abraham Bursztajn's experiences during the Shoah in Lodz, describing how two physicians, working under the shadow of death with limited resources, were able to comfort and even promote hope and healing, and how his father defied Rumkowski. Articles about the program and events of the Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Liquidation of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto in Lodz in August 2004, by Roni Seibel Liebowitz, Fay Bussgang, and Andrew Jakubowicz. Translation of an interview with the mayor of Lodz, concerning the Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Liquidation of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto in Lodz.  JRI-Poland: indices to Lodz Jewish vital records 1826-1903 are now online (click "Search the Database" on the JRI-Poland web site) Database of Austrian Victims of the Holocaust, including Jews deported from Vienna to the Lodz/Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Now online! Complete English translation of the Pinkas HaKehilot entry for the city of Lodz, including the history of Jewish Lodz from its beginnings through the World War II, and after.

Facts at a Glance

• City of Lodz chartered in 1423
• Jewish presence since ca. 1780
• Old cemetery, dating from 1811 to 1892, destroyed during World War II
• New cemetery, dating from 1892, largest Jewish cemetery in Europe
• Lodz Jewish population in 1939: approx. 223,000, 34% of total
• Second largest Jewish population in Europe in 1939
• Second largest city in Poland
• Lodz ghetto, 1940-1944: longest existing Polish ghetto
• Deportations: Chelmno, Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Survivors of the Lodz ghetto: approximately 5,000-7,000
• Textile capital of Eastern Europe
• Other Names: Lodzh (in Yiddish); Lodsch (in German); Renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans, 1939-1945
• Nickname: "The Polish Manchester"
• Polish Pronunciation: "wootch"

Facts taken from Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories, 1997, by Miriam Weiner, Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, 1990, Encyclopaedia Judaica and other sources.

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• JewishGen Databases - a wide variety of many types of databases.

• Yad Vashem - The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names

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